Last Saturday was our planned Club Balloon launch. Everything was going very well until we discovered our APRS payload was not working. After we spent more than 2 hours trying to resolve the issue we had to abort, however we had already filled the balloon partially so we ended up just releasing the balloon with no payload attached. Lesson learned was don't start filling the balloon until the complete payload chain is operational!
That lesson cost us a $40 balloon and $60 of helium.
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