Silver Springs Organics: Sponsor and Test Site

Written by Tom Nugent on Saturday, October 17th, 2009

We have another sponsor who was also able to aid us by providing space for testing. Silver Springs Organics and Cattle Ranch not only was the site for the two helicopter tests by Spaceward, but also for some long-range laser testing by LaserMotive.

It may be hard to see in the photo, but we were actually on a slightly elevated area, so we could point down at a target 1km away, which also had forest in the distance. All of the visible land is owned by Silver Springs, and we were pointed well below the horizon, so happily we were able to safely conduct high power, long range laser tests.

We want to thank Greg and everyone at Silver Springs for all of the support!