Spacebridge: The Next Generation

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the hackerspace Noisebridge, our ongoing mission to explore strange (yet economically priced) new ascent technologies; to seek out new parts and new partnerships; to boldly go where no non-government-or-massively-industrially-funded-group has gone before. Discussions: Discord Project Thread - To be included in Spacebridge-related announcements go to #bot-commands and type /rank Spacing Guild. Discord invite link: https://discord.gg/hNZPVkEX Weekly meetup notes EVENTS: We have weekly meetings Sunday at 5pm-7/8ish. (Meetup page) Spacebridge interest list Launch and field trip announcements will be made during the weekly meeting as well as the #announcement channel on discord.

On-boarding Materials

• Meetup Page
• Discord Project Channel
  • To subscribe to discord announcements type `/rank Spacing Guild`
• Meeting Notes
• Github
• Wiki (this page)
• Previous missions/excursions: See Missions for photos / write-ups!

Missions

Mission ID	Codename	Mission Patch	Launch	Landing	Description	Documentation
NBRL-000	First Foray Finding Floating Forms	N/A	OAK 2024-04-21	Tracy, CA 2024-04-21	Our first attempt to track down a Radiosonde weather balloon. Check out the balloon's full journey over on SondeHub as we forgot to disable GPS reporting after we recovered it. 😅	Photos
NBRL-001	Infinite Improbability Drive: The Whale and the Petunia		Field of Dogs McLaren Park, San Francisco, CA 2024-06-16 2:30pm	Tracy,CA 2024-06-16 ~6pm	Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of Tracy, California.	Photos Writeup
LUNAR-000	A Case Study on the Importance of Rocket Stability and Safe Range Operation	N/A	Brigantino Park, Hollister, CA 2024-06-22	Brigantino Park, Hollister, CA 2024-06-22	We were graciously invited to take part in LUNAR's monthly rocket launch by a pair of most excellent hackers over at Double Union (thanks Emma/Cynthia!!). Not only did they clue us into this awesome event they also provided easy to build rockets for us to launch! The day took a dramatic turn when a kid's rocket took a nosedive and started a (small) brush fire. Fortunately the fire department responded before it could escalate into a more serious issue. tl;dr: 🚀🌱🔥🔥🔥😨🚒🚒🚒😅	Photos
NBRL-002	990 Red Balloons	TDB	TDB	TDB	TDB	TDB
NBRL-003	TDB	TDB	TDB	TDB	TDB	TDB

Other Projects

Flight Path Modeling

Predicted flight path and landing locations. The black line indicates the expected flight path for a release at 10:00 AM. The colored dots indicate expected landing locations assuming a release at 10:00 AM and advancing hourly (11:00 AM launch, 12:00 PM etc.)