What is the HAB Ballaster™? A device to drop metered amounts of ballast to control flight altitudes. The HAB Ballaster is a device that can release measured amounts of ballast on command. It is a stand-alone module that is light enough to be used on latex weather balloons, while having a ballast capacity large enough …
Balloon Ascent Technologies is proud to announce its participation in Battelle’s recent stratospheric balloon campaign: https://inside.battelle.org/blog-details/come-fly-away-on-our-beautiful-stratospheric-balloon Steven Peterzen reached out to us to design and build a new termination system for this and one of his future flights. We had already partnered with Steven in the past to help with the Sisters, Oregon High School …
Dwayne used a HAB Bounder’s™ geofence setting on a high-altitude balloon flight earlier this year to ensure a successful recovery.
This is a semi-automatic printable SMD feeder for both manual and automatic pick-and-place (PnP) machines. It uses the mechanical energy from a lever depressed by the user or picking head to both advance the carrier tape, and to peel off and take-up the cover tape. The design is based off one by Dining-Philosopher, which was …
The Balloon Bounder™ is a self-contained cut-down device that utilizes a hot-wire cutter to sever a line at a predetermined time or event. Below is an over-view of the firmware versions and major changes each brought to the system.
Bounder™, the self-contained balloon termination device can now be triggered externally.
