Helios is a unique and innovative educational project ideated and developed by consociated high school students. It consists in a set of iterative design activities with the purpose of sending balloons and related payloads in the stratosphere, taking images of the earth and collecting physical data.
Each “iteration" create a new payload, a new data acquisition system, telemetry and remote control (new HW & SW), more advanced than those used in previous iterations.
After a series of launches and related recoveries, today we are able to launch in the stratospherre a special glider able to return to the launch point in a completely autonomous mode.
Please see the videos on our site www.heliosrth.com