JP Aerospace Videos

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Here are some clips showing what we've been up to.

Away 34 featuring the music of XENOCANON!

Edge of Space Music Video



For those of who always knew they belonged in the sky.
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Away 33
   The Motion Picture

We're adding narration to the existing videos. It's a description of what you're seeing.

Dark Sky Station 2 Floating on the Edge Ascender 90 Dark Sky Station 1 Launch

Flying with the Sons of the San Joaquin

Music video featuring the Sons of the San Joaquin, the official sponsors of space education and scenes
from the Away 29 and 30 missions.

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A Very Fast Rocket

This was a test of the eight foot spaceflight rocket. The launch box is hanging from a pole
instead of balloon for this one. This rocket really moves!

Space Vacuum inside the Ascender

This is just a fun clip we found. Last year when Space Vacuum was filming their rock video inside the Ascender
we were taking some still pics. Apparently the camera was put into video mode for 14 secs.

These are the voyages...

Dark Sky Station Two liftoff, Docking at the Dark Sky Station. The Missions Rocket launched from a balloon
from the on-board camera.

Rabbit Balloon Propeller balloon Launch 90 foot Ascender Big Ascender
Designed for fast climbs. Tested a high altitude propeller

Below the Rocket Propeller test 20 foot Ascender in flight Away 20

Ascender Float Test Floating at the edge Dark Sky Station liftoff Triple balloon launch

The Ring High Altitude Propeller in Action Away 26 Ground and balloon launched rockets

The Fall, Descent from 100,000 feet.

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Away 26, the remix

The great folks at SuperNova Digital Productions sent us this preview of a JPA
documentary they've been thinking about. This clip is focused on the Away 26
mission. It shows a lot of ground action and really makes us look good. Ah, the power
of video...

Airship Propeller Test

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Away 27, The Hop

Away 27 on board video. We had a bad bounce on launch and had
to abort the flight at 20,000 feet. The bounce and descent were all caught
by the camcorder on the vehicle.June 3rd 2006.

Lift Off from the Business End

Did you know that rocket motors whistle? At least solid propellant ones do. When the motor pressurizes
the air being forced out the nozzle makes a low to high pitch whistle. The reason you never hear this is that
you don't normally put your head under the rocket when it's firing. Rather then our heads we put a video
camera under the rocket instead. The camera was blasted away by the pressure wave before the motor
got going. The camera was fine, but the video was cut short. It's still very cool....

The rocket is the JPA MicroSat Launcher Block 2, firing a 14,000 n/s motor and flying to 20,000 feet.

PongSat News Story

Dale Schornack ABC News 10 has been covering JPA and making us look good for
years. Here's a story he's reciently did about the PongSat program. Can you see your
PongSat in the piece?

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Flying Contraptions
Platform experiments in the parking lot.

While developing high altitude platforms we have created some pretty strange flying machines.
Common to all of them is they flew in the parking lot before heading to the edge of space. This
video shows three very different types of platforms.

There and Back Again

The Ring

A study of building low cost aerospace parts. This big carbon ring
is for our new airship. The video shows 104 scenes from the making of
the ring flashing by in 40 seconds. You see the ring assemble itself
and emerge before your eyes.

                                      This three minute and fifty second video shows scenes from nearly all
                                      eighty-six mission flown by JPA. Set to the sounds of the Dark Sky Station
                                      house band, Space Vacuum.

Away 26

                                       Away 26 high altitude balloon mission flown on May 21, 2005.
                                       This clip shows the launch then switches to the on board camera.
                                       This flight carried airship components, research samples,
                                       202 PongSats and Stars Wars action figures.

Airship Factory

                                    A day in the life of an airship factory, or at least two minutes and forty seconds of one.
                                    This is a 'walk around' of the 175 foot Ascender from January 2004. That day we
                                    worked on inflation, float and a propeller spin up test.

Dark Sky Station

                                   On May 19, 2001 a small scale prototype Dark Sky Station took to the sky.
                                   You can see here the scale of the operation even for a small platform. This DSS
                                   is 27 feet across. During a launch we had to hold for two hours for high winds. When
                                   we reattached the balloon an inner and an outer balloon got switched. The result was the
                                   platform climbed at a small angle. Can you guess which balloon is in the wrong spot
                                   from the above picture?

Rockets!

                                    In addition to launching rockets from balloons as part of a high altitude launch
                                    system, JPA uses rockets as a research tool for Airship to Orbit. Here is a small
                                    sample of launches we've conducted. Most of those in the video are ground launches
                                    from suspended gondolas or from gimbaled launch rails.

The Fall

                               What is it like to fall from the edge of space?   Here is a camcorders
                                       view of that drop.   Video is from the Away 17 mission flown in 2002.

The Approach

This fantastic animation was create by Home Baked Entertainment.
It shows an orbital Ascender approaching the Dark Sky Station.

Away 25

                                                                Away 25 launch and on board video.
                                                                This mission was flown on April 4th 2004.

Away 22

                                        Away 22 high altitude propeller test flight. The video is a little grainy. The recording video
                                        cameras were stolen before the recovery crew got to the vehicle. You can still see the
                                        propeller spinning and driving the vehicle around. Away 22 lifted off on May 21, 2003

Inflation

                                     Inflation test. This balloon will be deployed from a rocket as part of Mach glider development.
                                     see January 2005 log page for details.

Texas Liftoff

                                            MicroSat Launcher lifting off from the West Texas Spaceport.
                                            Liftoff was on April 17, 2004, only a couple of weeks after the
                                            Away 25 mission. It was a very busy April!

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