[General] Design An Open Source Experiment, Get A Ride Into Space!

[Ethan Chew]

Yo Josh,

     Lynx's flight profile is as so:
http://www.xcor.com/press-releases/2008/images/lynx-flight-profile.pdf
     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

                          - Ethan/spacefelix

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Joshua Pritt <ramgarden at gmail.com> wrote:

> How about flying insects? Have they already studied how well different
> flying bugs adapt to microgravity?  That would be neat to watch.
> On Sep 9, 2012 6:57 PM, "Ethan Chew" <spacefelix at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey Guys!
>>
>>       As a hackerspace and as makers, this will interest you!
>>       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.
>>       If you have an idea for an experiment you'd like to fly into space,
>> check out the details on how to design and submit at: http://
>> www.citizensinspace.org/call-for-experiments/<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.citizensinspace.org%2Fcall-for-experiments%2F&h=aAQHvs0xWAQHUxx9FSzWGxOt_BS4FVYcLgPtutGnuRXx77A&s=1>
>>
>>              - Ethan Chew/spacefelix
>>
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