{"id":106,"date":"2010-03-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.eda.kent.ac.uk\/news-ext\/2010\/03\/10\/kent-students-work-flying-high\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T01:00:00","slug":"kent-students-work-flying-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2010\/03\/10\/kent-students-work-flying-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Student&#8217;s Work Flying High"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On Sunday, 7th March, Scott James, a third year Computer Systems Engineering student from the University of Kent, set his final year project soaring with help from the Cambridge University Space Flight team.<\/p>\n<p>The High Altitude Project, code-named &#8216;Orion&#8217;, took off successfully at Churchill College after a year of intensive preparation at Kent University&#8217;s School of Engineering and Digital Arts. A scientific instrument payload including two digital cameras, a GPS receiver and a digital thermometer was attached to a sounding balloon and sent into the highest reaches of the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Position, light and temperature readings were recorded during the flight, which reached 30,000 meters (98425 feet) and travelled 147 miles across England from Cambridge to Nuffield. Atmospheric temperatures reached a low of -56\u00b0C during the three-hour flight and over 300 still photos and 2 hours of video were returned safely to earth after the parachute-aided descent.<\/p>\n<p>Project Supervisor, Dr John Batchelor, said: &#8216;Right from the outset I was impressed by Scott&#8217;s dedication to his project.  He worked really hard to get his equipment launched and I think the results look fantastic&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Futher High Altitude Projects are in development, with improvements to the exsitsing payload, ultimately aiming to reach a stratospheric 330,000m meters.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to the CUSE team, Kent&#8217;s mechanical workshop and the students who spent their own personal time to help out with the flight.<\/p>\n<p>More detailed information including media of the project can be found at: http:\/\/ukhas.org.uk\/projects:orion<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, 7th March, Scott James, a third year Computer Systems Engineering student from the University of Kent, set his final year project soaring with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2010\/03\/10\/kent-students-work-flying-high\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}