Some Brevard County students are teaming up with the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and NASA to help them better determine weather conditions during rocket launches.
We know lightning and rocket launches don’t mix. That’s why weather balloons are released during rocket launches to determine if conditions are safe for liftoff.
But twice this past year, rocket launch attempts were scrubbed because lightning prevented weather balloons from being released.
So a group of students from Rockledge, Cocoa Beach, Viera and Space Coast High Schools came up with Weather-BOT.
They call themselves the PINK team, and designed a robot that can release a weather balloon so that people don’t have to release the balloon in dangerous weather conditions.
The robot is controlled with a PlayStation remote.