HorizonQMGS

This is the channel for 'Horizon' - the near space programme of Queen Mary's Grammar School in Walsall. Every year a new team of our secondary school pupils tackle a challenging mission while adding their own feature to the project. The pupils fund raise, plan and build stratospheric payloads which carry tracking hardware and video cameras to altitudes of almost 40 km. The payloads transmit live GPS data by radio and the GSM network so they can be tracked throughout their flight and easily recovered when they land. For us, it's a unique project which is ambitious and rewarding - we believe that the sky is not the limit...