2012 2013 in Review in Pictures

2012 and 2013 In Pictures

The past two years have been the years of more. More PongSat, we're flown over 15,000 now, more research, and more TV shows and commercials paying the bills.

We flew 34 missions to the edge of space, conducted 62 magnetohydrodymanic system test firings, did two Japanese TV shows one British one and one American show. We have truly become globe spaning with commercial custmers from Columbia, Canada, Japan, and Britian.

The reseach for Airship to Orbit has expanded along with our flight experience. Each year we progress faster than the year before. If the last two years are any guide, look out for 2014.

PongSats and MiniCubes

Away 82 carried the 10,000th PongSat.

School children from Fukushima, Japan flew thousands of sunflower seeds in their PongSats as a symbol of hope. Afterwards they planted then creating a huge sunflower grove.

MiniCube, our newest payload launch product has been a great success!

The Commercial Missions

Cat's, rubber chickens, wedding rings and anything else you could imagine flew with us.

Richard Hammond and JP

What goes up must come down. We build, flew and slammed into the ground a capsule containing a light bulb. This was for Richard Hammond of Top Gear fame's program "Richard Hammond Miracles of Nature" program.

We're been bring space in to millions of peoples homes through our customers promotions.

Our commercial work has won awards in Europe, the UK and Japan. The doll deployment may have been our trickiest yet. At peak altitude one of the doll was suppose to deploy off the playform. It worked! The doll even managed to float facing the camera for a few moments.

And we can't forget the great bunch of folks from Columbia with the El Corral Space Essence missions,

.Research and Development

Valve controlled balloon.

Dual launches

Ascender 26

Ascender 100 Airbeam structure elements 3d Printed parts Mach 2 shock tube for active drag reduction research.

Magnetohydrodynamic research for the airship rocket engine. 104 test firings to date.

The submarine bellavia is being used for life support system and AI/Pilot voice interface develop.

And aways developments and systems improvement at the edge of space is on going.

And the rest...

The team has been loving our new launch site "Area Trombone" .

Just about the only thing left is Scotty the space dog, midnight recoveries and the long walk home.

For every picture there are hundreds of hours of time in the shop, building, testing, fundraising, breaking and building again. It's been an exciting past two years and the pace in only increasing.

On to 2014.

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