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====== PicoAtlas X ======

===== Aims =====
  * To repeat the success of PicoAtlas IX
  * Launch early morning to look at how timing affects float period

===== Improvements =====
  * Add more $$$$$ after radio reset to avoid problems decoding the first string

===== Launch Conditions =====
  * Ground windspeed < 5mph
  * Flight path keeps it within radio rx range for 24hours

===== Launch =====

  * Easy launch, filled balloon and released
  * Perfect weather, <5mph winds, hot day, clear skies
  * GPS seemed a bit noisy may have been due to desensitised + power saving mode
  * Started floating around 5km but kept climbing very slowly, sprung a leak and descended over Norfolk
  * Not yet recovered.

===== Flight Data =====

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  * Ascent rate = 0.9m/s

===== Conclusions =====

  * Harder to float the balloon during the day (however if you manage it it should last for a long time as you'd get a whole day, then night and then potentially another day)
  * The flight code works well, it was nice to have battery data
  * Need to have a way of exposing the antenna without it being desensitised