{"id":40,"date":"2019-08-22T01:21:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T01:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceclub.to\/?p=40"},"modified":"2023-09-07T23:43:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T23:43:12","slug":"practice-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceclub.to\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Practice Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We packed up our supplies and headed out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhill.ca\/en\/things-to-do\/Phyllis-Rawlinson-Park.aspx\">Phyllis Rawlinson Park<\/a> on July 27th to test some of our ideas for how to inflate a balloon, how to measure the lift, how to attach the payload, etc.  We learned a LOT and also had a critical failure with our GPS antenna that we&#8217;re glad to have done on a test rather than potentially at the real launch, where it would have caused a scrub!  We did let several balloons head up (with dummy payloads only), our calculations said that they would pop at ~5000 ft, but that will still higher than we could actually see with the naked eye.  Next time let&#8217;s bring binoculars! This was so much fun and really has us excited for the actual launch and payload chase.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SpaceClub2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SpaceClub2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceclub.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SpaceClub2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">It&#8217;s alive!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We packed up our supplies and headed out to Phyllis Rawlinson Park on July 27th to test some of our ideas for how to inflate a balloon, how to measure the lift, how to attach the payload, etc. We learned a LOT and also had a critical failure with our GPS antenna that we&#8217;re glad &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spaceclub.to\/?p=40\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Practice Launch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceclub.to\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}