Amateur Radio is where you find it. In this case, it was about 20 miles straight up as these engineering students used GPS and Amateur Radio to keep track of a new record-setting balloon.
Early-career engineers at Lockheed Martin who are also earning engineering degrees at Cornell broke the world amateur high-altitude balloon record in a recent near-space flight that exceeded 125,000 feet.
The 19 graduate students are part of Lockheed Martin’s Engineering Leadership Development Program. The balloon launch was the capstone effort of Project Blue Horizon (PBH), an educational component of the three-year program. The students are employed at Lockheed Martin Systems Integration in Owego, N.Y., while completing their systems engineering master’s degrees at Cornell. (Read more)
SOURCE: Science Daily
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