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Weather Balloon flown 30km into space
natrium42.com — A hobbyist flew a weather balloon to near-space, using off-the-shelf parts, with a payload of a GPS, digital camera, 900MHz radio, and SMS module. There are some amazing photos & videos on the site, near the peak of the flight you can actually see the blackness of space. Also, check out the .kmz file for loading into Google Earth.
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- sYx66, on 10/28/2007, -0/+3Nice. I like the tilting camera idea with videos.
- Gato38, on 10/28/2007, -0/+5Very awesome!!
- iofthestorm, on 10/28/2007, -0/+5Not to mention, he is one of the founders of the DS homebrew movement afaik.
- fragus, on 10/28/2007, -0/+2Very imaginative and ingenious!
Congratulations and thank you for sharing this - quotato, on 10/28/2007, -0/+5His web site presentation was a real trip.
Sometimes a single human being can add action to the word awesome, instead of just saying it.
This project IS awesome - rangar, on 10/28/2007, -0/+4Brill. Gave me goosebumps! the feckless and unbounded enthusiasm and of an amateur. Inspiring!
- Exploit, on 10/28/2007, -0/+5Amazing!!
This deserves much more than 83 diggs!!- andywebb95, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1Agreed. Now its up to 99.
Too bad you can digg more than once.
- andywebb95, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1Agreed. Now its up to 99.
- andywebb95, on 10/28/2007, -0/+3Awesome!
This is something I definitely want to try someday. - lukeslytalker, on 10/28/2007, -0/+3Coolest DIY I think I've ever seen!
- Warptaco, on 10/28/2007, -0/+2It was really cool to see the camera slowly swing 30 kilometers up, the parachute flapping in the wind, the black sky above and the clouds far below. Somehow that made that place more real for me. I always thought that that high up the atmosphere would be almost non existent (as it is), but yet there still are these subtle little things like wind on the parachute.
If we ever build a space elevator, it would be interesting to stand on a platform that high up.
It also made me thing that would not it make some sense to have a parachute assisted reusable space vehicle. Surely a 30 kilometer lift would be worth the savings in fuel. - franktherabbit1, on 03/30/2008, -0/+0Definitely one of the of the coolest things on the web right now. Really brilliant.
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