Horus 19: a great success!
We successfully launched & recovered Horus 19 this morning - with perfect weather conditions, it was a great day.
Ready for lift off
Skipping Girl Vinegar came along for the chase, recovering the payload with us just outside of Tailem Bend after a ~3 hour flight.
SGV frontman Mark & Baker the monkey after landing
Many thanks to everyone who helped make today go so smoothly - fullВ write-upВ including pics & video very soon! 
Launch of Horus 19
On Sunday the 27th of November, we'll be launching Horus 19, carrying Skipping Girl Vinnegar's monkey 'baker' to the edge of space.
Launch will be taking place at around 08:00am local time (ACST), with another opening at 14:30 should we be unable to launch as planned.
We will be flying our regular 70cm RTTY telemetry on 434.650MHz, as well as an APRS payload. AsВ always, we appreciate people's assistance in tracking, if you want to follow the launch online you can do it atВ spacenear.usВ or atВ APRS.fi.
Chase & launch teams will be contactable on the day via the VK5RSB and VK5RMB repeaters, as well as in #highaltitude onВ freenode.net.
Launch of Horus 18
On Sunday the 13th of November we'll be launching Horus 18 at approx 9am local time (ACST).
This launch includes high definition video, as well a number of standard definition video cameras.
Predicted flight path of Horus 18
TelemetryВ wise, we'll be flying our standard 300baud RTTY onВ 434.650MHzВ & an APRS payload. We always appreciate people's assistance in tracking, if you want to follow the launch online you can do it atВ spacenear.usВ or at APRS.fi.
Chase & launch teams will be contactable on the day via the VK5RSB and VK5RMB repeaters, as well as in #highaltitude onВ freenode.net.
The predicted flight path should (hopefully) make for an easy recovery.
Update:В Horus 18 was a successful flight! The full writeup is now online.