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RIT Students Successfully Launch High Altitude Balloon

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Start date May 13, 2011

ARRL

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May 13, 2011

The Rochester Institute of Technology Amateur Radio Club, K2GXT, had a successful launch of RITCHIE-1 -- a custom high altitude balloon designed by members of K2GXT -- at the Imagine RIT Festival on May 7. According to RITARC Vice President Bryce Salmi, KB1LQC, the goal of the launch was not to reach high altitudes to take images, but to engineer a reliable, modular and reusable payload with go...

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RIT Students Successfully Launch High Altitude Balloon

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