Macrofab Engineering Podcast

 Podcast Notes Our guests this week are Sasha Maldonado and Paige Brown of the Stanford Student Space Initiative. Sasha Maldonado  Stanford junior majoring in Electrical Engineering. Now retired avionics lead on the ValBal project, and has been with the project since its inception. Co-presidents of the Student Space Initiative, also known as SSI, , and is working on electronics for an SSI-built satellite payload. Paige Brown  Stanford freshman majoring in Chemical Engineering The mechanical engineering lead on the ValBal project, and also helps manage flight control logistics. Outside of SSI, she works in an environmental engineering lab on phosphate pollution remediation in storm water through chemical absorption. ValBal  A novel, low cost high-altitude balloon system that achieves multi-day flight using inexpensive latex balloons by automatically venting lifting gas and dispensing ballast to maintain altitude. Latex balloons typically cost little more than a hundred dollars, but in normal use fly for on