The Sintra Space Center is proud to inform that the first test for the Cynthia Project had occured last Saturday with (dubious) sucess.

Click here to watch cynthia-I

OO - is that a radio controlled plane?

Doug

What's a radio controlled plane compared with an empty milk box, a plastic bag & shoe lacers parachute and a mighty USTRAX5F (read: 5 fingers) launcher?...

You don't know what you can come with things around you and a sunny afternoon with nothing to do...

Ahhh - throw it way up in the air and pictures on the way down Cunning. Any pictures of the 'aperatus'?

I've been trying to find a way to simulate MOC/HiRISE push-broom imaging using video footage from a radio control plane...no luck yet though - somewhere there must be a sourceforge project

Doug

It was video footage, the first 15sec, aproximately, are from 'lift-off' and ascension, but the 'aperatus' was still too bouncy and fast so I've cropped some images to have a better sence of the 'flight', but I'm already building the next version, reducing weight, with more stability and longer video capacity, capable of reaching higher grounds and take a bit more of time to descend...It's fun!!! It's geek power!!!

EDITED: No images from the 'thing' but I can take some when I arrive home, it deserves it...It's the first of a future glorious generation...
My idea is not capture images from above, it goes beyond that...The idea is to develop it to the point it can reach the ground and...rove!!!

It's an UFO movie, but the camera was attached to the UFO, so that it yelded no useable science data.

No usable science data?!!
What about that strange life form?:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustrax3/15.jpg


Really, didn't expected it, for a first test to be so cool...It was even possible to make out a panorama from the air...Images were taken during ascent and descent so the joining of the frames are not perfect but it is possible to take a look at the area:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustr...cynthiaIpan.jpg

Detailed section:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustr...ynthiaIpan2.jpg

And this is my favourite, it really gives you the sense of the heighteness it has reached...Developing is urgent! :

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustrax3/3.jpg

Ooops sorry I did not noticed this strange alien!

Thanks for stitching your images, it gives us a startling view of this strange planet. Did you obtained soil analysis results?

Here it is, the mutilated but proud remains of the historical cynthia I:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustrax3/cI.jpg

Well, precious historical remains of the first Cynthia spaceship.

Let us guess that Cynthia II will fly higher, and more models to come, so that Cynthia n will be the first spaceship to reach a star...

Well done ustrax ... on to Mars !

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I think I can even recognise the parachute, made of a "high-tech" multi-purpose material... err, plastic bag from "El Corte Inglés" supermarkets?

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Precisely Mr. T...

We've got one in Lisboa...