Observed arrival · 2026-09-22
SouthPing: Homemade Probes for the Antarctic
A bilingual student project building three satellite weather probes for King George Island and the Drake Passage.
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- Open-hardware builders and Antarctic weather researchers
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- A drifting buoy is designed to report four times daily across the Drake Passage.
Field notes
The project uses a common probe design for two comparison stations and one free-drifting buoy, with hourly sensing and satellite transmission. Its proposed validation step places a homemade instrument beside a professional Antarctic station for a full season. The site also identifies unresolved dependencies: the Escudero deployment depends on INACH approval, and a prospective university partnership remains unsigned.
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