How you can follow the High Hopes Balloon live!
Find out more about this project here. We finally have a decent window of weather to launch tomorrow, June 16th. We’ll try to launch about 8:30am PDT. When we launch, a communications payload keeps us in touch with the balloon’s progress. Besides 2 SPOT Trackers that use satellite technology to pinpoint the balloons location once it lands (2 in case one fails) a HAM radio transceiver sends out a signal that we (and you) can watch live on a Google map. To do so go to aprs.fi…