El Reg's Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) now has its very own section [1], nicely nestled in Science, the better for readers to follow the progress of our audacious upper atmosphere plane plan.

 [2]The new spot should be filling up nicely in the coming weeks, as the project ramps ups considerably towards the final, climactic launch of the Vulture 1 aircraft.

On 1 June, we're off to QinetiQ [3] to test the aircraft release mechanism in their hypobaric chamber, so expect photos and/or small explosions in due course.

Before we head off to Farnborough, though, we're putting together the Vulture 1 radio tracking set-up, which uses the APRS system. Following the success [4] of our main payload GPS tracker live test, we're planning something similar for the first week in June to give the Vulture 1 board a run for its money.

We'll post snaps of the kit and tech details of how the whole thing works before the day.

In the meantime, we've put together a basic mission summary for those of you who are new to PARIS, which you can get right here [5] (pdf). ®

Additional PARIS resources

• New to PARIS? We have a basic mission summary here [6] (pdf).
• Our Youtube channel [7] - currently featuring a few camera tests.

Links

1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/science/paris/
2. http://www.peer1hosting.co.uk/
3. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/10/paris_qinetiq/
4. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/07/live_gps_test/
5. http://regmedia.co.uk/2010/05/18/paris_mission_summary.pdf
6. http://regmedia.co.uk/2010/05/18/paris_mission_summary.pdf
7. http://www.youtube.com/user/RegisterParis