ALIEN - ALtitude Imaging Entering Near-space
ALIEN is a High Altitude Ballooning project by me and two other school friends, Simrun Basuita and Alex Breton. Its goal is to take photos of the curvature of the earth, by sending up a camera programmed to take photos, with a GPS + Radio circuit which will report its position, allowing the SD card with photos to be retrieved. In this project, I have been completing the construction of the payload electronics and the payload programming. This project is also the main reason that I became interested in Amateur Radio and involved in UKHAS (United Kingdom High Altitude Society) projects such as dl-fldigi and habitat
We successfully launched our first flight, ALIEN #1 and we recovered it perfectly after it flew to an altitude of 33.158 KM, on May 2nd 2010! We're now working on building ALIEN #2.