Great news from South Africa. The amazing network of high speed phone masts, built just for BLOODHOUND, is now complete. This is a huge commitment from MTN, the mobile phone company providing the network for us.
Milestone communications technology in place for 1 600 km/h Land Speed Record attempt
This month marked a significant milestone in the development of The BLOODHOUND Project, the global education initiative focused around a 1000 mph (1 600 km/h) Land Speed Record attempt: the completion of the desert towers which will beam video and data from the car to the outside world.
The Bloodhound education team, including many Ambassadors, were very busy with National Science Week in South Africa that took place from Saturday 27 July until Sunday 4 August. The campaign is supported and funded by the Department of Science & Technology (DST).
Following last month’s hugely successful rocket firing, we’ve been thrilled by the very high levels of international interest. In the first 48 hours, we ran over 300,000 pages on our website and over 6 million views on YouTube. I can’t wait to see what happens when we start running live video from the Car next year....
Hakskeenpan played host recently to the first Kalahari Speedweek in South Africa when hundreds of car and motorbike fans unleashed their vehicles on the surface of the pan in the far north west of the Northern Cape. Speed was the name of the game for the multitude of very different young and old entries ahead of BLOODHOUND SSC’s arrival in 2013 and was a great trial run to show what the team must expect.
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