{"id":19300,"date":"2016-07-31T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T15:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/out-of-this-world-seattle-sisters-launch-their-loki-lego-2-0-balloon-craft-past-100000-feet\/"},"modified":"2016-07-31T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T15:13:08","slug":"out-of-this-world-seattle-sisters-launch-their-loki-lego-2-0-balloon-craft-past-100000-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/out-of-this-world-seattle-sisters-launch-their-loki-lego-2-0-balloon-craft-past-100000-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of this world! Seattle sisters launch their Loki Lego 2.0 balloon craft past 100,000 feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_264437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264437\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-264437 size-full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lokilego2-630x358.jpg\" alt=\"Loki Lego Launcher 2.0\" width=\"630\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lokilego2-630x358.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lokilego2-768x436.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lokilego2-1240x704.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lokilego2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-264437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loki Lego Launcher 2.0 soars high above central Washington on July 30. (Courtesy of Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> A new YouTube video, below, captures the preparation and launch of Loki Lego Launcher 2.0. The girls have also update their blog with a mission debrief post, which discusses data from the onboard solar experiment as well as lessons learned.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung reached exciting new heights in their budding science careers on Saturday when they&nbsp;launched their second balloon-borne&nbsp;craft into the stratosphere over central Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Loki Lego Launcher 2.0 reached&nbsp;101,325 feet, and in a dramatic image that&nbsp;the girls shared with GeekWire, their&nbsp;onboard pals&nbsp;Loki the cat and the Star Wars Lego character&nbsp;Rey are seen against a breathtaking backdrop.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"[HD] Loki Lego Launcher 2.0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/grGrDirztI0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rebecca, 11, and Kimberly 9, met or exceeded the top three goals on their pre-flight checklist. They had hoped to reach a height of 90,200 feet as well as see the curvature of the earth in footage captured by a camera on board. The girls also wanted the launch and descent to be completed in less than four hours.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle elementary school girls offered a play by play of the mission on their blog on Saturday, starting with a post by their dad, Winston,&nbsp;at 7:15 a.m., in which he wrote, \u201cBoth Launch Directors still sleeping, hmm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By 8:47 a.m. the girls were awake and checking the weather to confirm that the launch was a go and they were on their way to the launch site.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_264442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264442\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-264442 size-full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/loki2launchsite-630x354.jpg\" alt=\"Loki Lego 2.0\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/loki2launchsite-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/loki2launchsite-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/loki2launchsite.jpg 809w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-264442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung prep the Loki Lego 2.0 on launch day at Caliche Lakes, just south of George, Wash. (Via Loki Lego Launcher)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At 10:20 a.m. the craft\u2019s helium balloon was inflated and at 10:34 the blog announced \u201cLIFTOFF!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the next three hours, the gang monitored the balloon\u2019s flight path using two onboard tracking systems. They offered links to their&nbsp;APRS&nbsp;and&nbsp;SPOT Trace&nbsp;trackers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_264441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264441\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-264441\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lokimap-630x339.png\" alt=\"Loki Lego flight path\" width=\"630\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lokimap-630x339.png 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lokimap-768x413.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lokimap.png 917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-264441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map from the APRS tracker shows the path of Loki Lego Launcher 2.0. (Via Loki Lego Launcher)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At 1:41 p.m. they reported that the craft was on its way down after exceeding 100,000 feet. The family was northeast of Ritzville, Wash., as the&nbsp;\u201csuper giddy group of stratospheric explorers\u201d looked to retrieve their craft and its data.<\/p>\n<p>After walking through a field of tall grass, the Loki blog showed an image of Rebecca, in a Jet Propulsion Laboratory T-shirt, and Kimberly, in a Blue Origin T-shirt, holding up Loki Lego Launcher 2.0 under the blue skies out of which it had just descended.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_264443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264443\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-264443\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/girlsloki2-630x354.jpg\" alt=\"Loki Lego 2.0\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/girlsloki2-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/girlsloki2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/girlsloki2.jpg 809w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-264443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung with their spacecraft, in a field near Tokio, in Adams County, Wash. (Via Loki Lego Launcher)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe are now going for a cold ice cream,\u201d the blog concluded, adding that data analysis \u2014 including what they learned from their onboard solar panel and sensors \u2014 was still to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loki Lego Launcher 2.0 soars high above central Washington on July 30. (Courtesy of Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung) Update: A new YouTube video, below, captures the preparation and launch of Loki Lego Launcher 2.0. 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