Yo Josh,<div><br></div><div> Lynx's flight profile is as so:
<a href="http://www.xcor.com/press-releases/2008/images/lynx-flight-profile.pdf">http://www.xcor.com/press-releases/2008/images/lynx-flight-profile.pdf</a> </div><div> You get 4.25 minutes of 0-g flight (you go up to 61 km/200,000 feet above sea level, twice the height of the HSIS balloon flights). If you can pack a box of insects and a webcam into a 10 cm cube and make it weigh less than 1 kg, you've got yourself an experiment. :D</div>
<div><br></div><div> - Ethan/spacefelix<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Joshua Pritt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ramgarden@gmail.com" target="_blank">ramgarden@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>How about flying insects? Have they already studied how well different flying bugs adapt to microgravity? That would be neat to watch.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sep 9, 2012 6:57 PM, "Ethan Chew" <<a href="mailto:spacefelix@gmail.com" target="_blank">spacefelix@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
<div><span style="line-height:17px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hey Guys!</font></span></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17px"><div>
<span style="line-height:17px"><br></span></div><div> As a hackerspace and as makers, this will interest you! </div> The Citizens in Space organization has contracted for 10 suborbital flights of the XCOR Lynx spacecraft. With a nod to open collaboration, they will fly pathfinder experiments free of charge, for anyone who submits their experiment licensed as open-source hardware. </span></font><div>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> If you have an idea for an experiment you'd like to fly into space, check out the<span style="line-height:17px"> details on how to design and submit at: </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.citizensinspace.org%2Fcall-for-experiments%2F&h=aAQHvs0xWAQHUxx9FSzWGxOt_BS4FVYcLgPtutGnuRXx77A&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="line-height:17px;color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://<span style="display:inline-block"></span>www.citizensinspace.org/<span style="display:inline-block"></span>call-for-experiments/</a></font><div>
<br></div><div> - Ethan Chew/spacefelix</div></div>
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