Further On The Ground Testing

Further On The Ground Testing

After our last launch we started on a campaign of further ground testing to see if we could replicate the loss of GPS location updates. We ran a half dozen cold soak tests using dry ice to drop the Tracksoar down to between -40 and -60 celsius, the usual range of...
Problems Solved!

Problems Solved!

I took a Saturday off from launching test balloons to sit down and really go over the Tracksoar. After a couple of hours of testing I was able to reproduce our big issue from the last flight; losing GPS updates at 66k feet. I spoke with the friendly folks at the...
Our First Test Flight

Our First Test Flight

After nearly a year in development we finally managed our first Tracksoar test flight. It has been a long process to get to this point but we finally have a version worthy of proper flight testing. We put the Tracksoar through it’s paces in a number of ground...