UVM CricketSat Program

January 17, 2008 | General | By: Mark VandeWettering

I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a balloon launch, perhaps carrying a full GPS and radio transmitter payload, but I think it would behoove me to get some experience attempting to find payloads that cost only a few bucks before risking hundreds of dollars. This would appear to be the answer: the Cricketsat.

UVM CricketSat Program

These are little transmitters that are kind of like your key fob or whatever. They output a weak signal, but are capable of relaying some basic telemetry back via simple modulation. They cost about $10, and can be carried by a small balloon. Very neat.

Comments

Comment from Jeff
Time 1/18/2008 at 5:56 pm

You should check out a friend of mine’s product… http://bigredbee.com/

Comment from Near Space
Time 1/18/2008 at 10:03 pm

I’m going down the same path as you. Launch a few Cricketsats and then a Balloonsat. Go to http://www.anasphere.com/
and look at:
http://www.anasphere.com/AnaSonde_all.pdf
These are commercial Cricketsat devices/kits.

Comment from Bob Twiggs
Time 1/19/2008 at 8:41 pm

Check out my web, there is information there on CricketSats.

Also, check out:

http://cricketsat.com/

For CricketSat kits.

Bob