Our balloon and parachute are on the way!

Last night we ordered the 1200g balloon and 5 ft parachute. We expect delivery by the end of next week. The next steps are to build our radar reflector and container. We are pursuing two container ideas. Many of our predecessors have successfully used a simple styrofoam container. We believe this could be a good "Phase 1" solution. However, we are also beginning work on a hard shell case. For each of these, we would like to use a fin to catch the wind and hopefully minimize the amount of spinning.

We have a work session scheduled for Sunday afternoon to build the container. If the build is successful we expect to launch by the end of October!