Balloon Launch
Brian Belley
Four Key Lessons from a Recent Balloon Launch

High altitude balloon launches are unpredictable and constant teachers. On a recent launch in December 2019, we were reminded of a few key lessons. Learn from our mistakes!

Four Key Lessons from a Recent Balloon Launch
Balloon Launch
Brian Belley
Colbert Launch, Part 3: Test Launch

In this post, join us as we launch a test payload with our planned equipment (GoPro Camera, Colbert Platform, Astronaut Ice Cream) to ensure everything will be ready for the actual Colbert launch. Come Launch with Us!

Colbert Launch, Part 3: Test Launch
Balloon Launch
Brian Belley
Our Balloon Launch with Stephen Colbert

This is the story of our launch to assist The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to send Astronaut Ice Cream to near-space for the first time!

Our Balloon Launch with Stephen Colbert
Space Camp, Science
Brian Belley
Near-Space Balloon Burst Altitude Calculator - ...

Perhaps you recognize this post's cover photo from a recent Late Show with Stephen Colbert skit: Astronaut Ice Cream is a Lie. Indeed, that skit used Launch with Us planning and flight hardware to plan for, execute, and retrieve the space ice cream payload. To make sure that we reached our objective altitude, we had to ensure that we chose the proper launch configuration. How did we do it? More about predicting altitude is below, while more details on the story of the Colbert launch itself will be coming in the next blog posts!

Near-Space Balloon Burst Altitude Calculator - Science
Balloon Launch
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EFT5 - Pi(e) in the Sky

Our return to flight after the winter!  This mission conducted a number of experiments that we will be briefing in the weeks to come.  This was our first launch with an object being video taped during flight - we launched an apple pie into near-space!

EFT5 - Pi(e) in the Sky

Status for Launch With Us

So we have not done much with our website for the last year - and that is because we have been so busy taking people’s things to space!

If you want to see some of our current work, check out our partner: sendmystufftospace.com

You could also check out some of our clients work, including our world record breaking flight of the largest gallery exhibition in the stratosphere or our work to send an Owala bottle to space

We do have plans for this website, and we are most definitely still launching high altitude balloons. If you want to send something to space: reach out!

Starting a new phase of Launch With Us

A few months ago, Brian was contacted by a high school science teacher , John Garesché, who decided to leave the formal classroom to expand upon project based learning work he did in his classroom. That conversation has led to a new phase for Launch With Us. We are going to be rapidly expanding the number of launches that we do and the number of people who can work with you to launch your stuff to space.

John has been working and planning with a number of people around the world doing high altitude balloon launches in New York, Maine, Hawaii, Arizona, and has plans to launch in Georgia, Colorado, California, the United Kingdom and even Africa! He has worked with Rick Eason, a professor of Engineering at the University of Maine. Professor Eason has been running the UM High Altitude Balloon program for many years, and is retiring from teaching in order to launch more high altitude balloons!

Two brothers from the UK, Harry and Jack Spring are also involved in providing video production capabilities. You will see a lot more about this is the coming months as we complete the planning process and implement our business strategies.