Flight 3¶

Timeline¶

• 9:00 Most have arrived at CCP and are eating breakfast
• 9:30 the team arrives at hofro (Naval Research) to prepare the launcy
• 9:45 baloon assembly begins
• 10:00 cut down wire in place at the top of parachute
• 10:15 cut down wire being put into the foam box
• 10:20 Ragnar fucking [sic] about with ropes
• 10:25 Space ship hung up on the device
• 10:30 CCP start the desktop live stream!
• 10:35 Small red HR balloon released to see general wind direction
• 10:45 trying to get a signal from the Spot GPS tracker
• 10:50 camera in foam boxes being mounted
• 11:00 balloon filling process started! Takes about 22 minutes.
• 11:15 Helium flowing into balloon
• 11:53 Kristjan calls the tower
• 11:55 Box sealed, trackers checked. Spot at 11:22
• 12:03 Cameras on
• 12:19 Authority 1 approves, other asks for more information: ascent, heading. Vikar has to reset the cutoff
• 12:23 Given the go ahead!

Notes by Halldor, transcribed by Joe.