Updates
High Altitude Balloons Return to Magnitude.io!
After a three-year hiatus, magnitude.io/ is relaunching our atmospheric balloon program! Tomorrow, we'll assist Waverly Elementary School in Stockton with their 6th grade stratospheric mission, ascending over 100,000 feet. You will be able to track the balloon as it travels down California’s Central Valley on April 29, 2025 after 11:00 am Pacific time at https://aprs.fi…
Magnitude Abstracts Accepted to IAC 2025
We’re proud to announce that three of our abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the prestigious International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Sydney this year: “Seeds of Discovery: ExoLab’s Global Inquiry Pedagogy Connecting K-12 Students with Space Research” – Showcasing how our ExoLab program has engaged 24,500+ students and 1,400+ teachers across 15 countries through…
SpaceX-31 Return to Earth
The SpaceX and ISS teams met to review current weather conditions across splashdown sites for the 12/15 undock opportunity. We remain outside our flight rule limits on all sites, so the team has waived the 12/15 undock opportunity. We will proceed towards a U-24hr Wx Brief for the Monday 12/16 1600 UTC (1000 CT) opportunity.…
Opening up the Worldwide ExoLab Platform
The genesis of Magnitude was 10 years ago today! On that first day of summer in 2013, Tony and I decided to bring learning to the very edge of human discovery – and, with a bit of luck – the opportunity to bring others with us to peer over that edge. As a for profit…
A Look Back: Year 8. An ExoLab return on Crew-1.
I love mission patches. As a memento of a project there is nothing cooler than mission patches! The 2020-2021 season was extraordinary for Magnitude in that we acquired a number of mementos from this flight. When your payload is launched in most space capsules, they do not have a return journey. While there are several…
World Space Week – Day 6: ISS National Lab and Space Tango
Over the last few days we have been able to share just a few of our International partners and NGOs. None of this could be possible if we could not get our experiments to space! In addition to the launch vehicles (Cygnus, Dragon) required to get us there, today we’d like to express our gratitude…
AIAA presentation by Siddhi, Wex Foundation
Siddhi Raut and her team at LCATS, Wex Foundation, created this amazing video slide show for the AIAA presentation a couple of weeks ago. They have summarized their research and experiences really well, making the best of being in the pandemic. We are super impressed with how Siddhi delivers the presentation with her engaging personality.
San Antonio students show off their work on WEX Foundation’s STEM day
Students in San Antonio worked in teams to construct their rovers and the balloon payload over multiple weekends, using the magnitude.io/ CanSat to collect telemetry data and visualize them in real-time. Activities included the Lunar Caves remote vehicle, high-powered rocket, and high altitude balloon reaching about 100,000 ft. The WEX Foundation, LCATS provides a safe…
U.S. Department of Education launches national challenge to bring space missions to high school students
We’re proud to serve as a sponsor of CTE Mission: CubeSat, a national challenge from the U.S. Department of Education to build technical skills for careers in space and beyond. The Department invites high schools to bring space missions to students by designing and building CubeSat prototypes — in the classroom or at home. Investors…
CanSat High Altitude Balloon Launch – USC: Project Payload