Currently the team are investigating the possibility of getting telemetry from our HAB, which is much more difficult than it might sound. Mainly this is down to transmission output power limitations which are enforced in the UK. The small areas of the radio spectrum that are licence exempt require output power to be 10mW or less (on the European mainland that limitation is 100mW).
It is not beyond our capability to be able to send and receive a signal at that distance even with this, somewhat over-the-top, restriction - however it is unlikely that any telemetry hardware will make it onto this first flight. Instead development will continue with the radio hardware as it is something we would like on subsequent flights.
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
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