Welcome to space.1337arts.com — Project Icarus, home of the original $150 near-space launch!
UPDATE: 8/7/10 We have created a forum. If you have questions, comments, or just want to show your near-space launch, post HERE!
UPDATE: 5/12/10 Check out grassrootsmapping.org! We’re helping citizens to use balloons, kites, and other simple and inexpensive tools to produce their own aerial imagery of the spill… documentation that will be essential for environmental and legal use in coming years.
UPDATE: 10/30/09: Want to do it yourself? Visit GUIDE, a compilation of detailed information regarding what we did for our launch.
Click Here for archive of updates
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***CAUTION/DISCLAIMER: Launching things into the stratosphere can be DANGEROUS! Please contact the FAA before trying any launches (even if they are under 4 lbs.) to make sure your vehicle won’t be entering restricted airspace and PLEASE check the University of Wyoming’sBalloon Trajectory Predictor(or a similar website) to make sure you balloon won’t be landing in the city/a populated area where it might cause significant damage. Also, be sure to test your balloon’s terminal velocity for descent before launching. We tested our parachute by putting eggs inside of our styrofoam box and tossing the box off of a 5 story building. We were not satisfied with the landing speed of our box until the eggs did not break upon the box’s impact.
About Project Icarus
We are a group of MIT students seeking to share the artistic aspects of science with others. On Sept. 2, 2009, we launched a digital camera into near-space to take photographs of the earth from high up above. (see “Flight”)
Several groups have accomplished similar feats (see “Other Launches”), but as far we know, we are the first group ever to:
(1) Complete such a launch on a budget of $150 total. All of our supplies (including camera, GPS tracking, weather balloon, and helium) were purchased for less than a grand total of $150.
(2) Create a launch vehicle without the use of any electronic hacking. We used off-the-shelf items exclusively (i.e., no electronic chips or soldering) to create our launch vehicle.
The results were fantastic. Our ultra low-budget balloon went 17.5 miles high into the uppermost parts of the stratosphere and returned 5 hours later. We tracked the device with GPS and found it some 20 miles away from the launch site.
Check us out on CNN, FOX, ABC! Click here to watch the Fox video, Click here to watch the CNN video. Click here to watch the ABC video
Project Icarus Details:
| Who | Oliver Yeh , Justin Lee, Eric Newton |
| Launch Date/Time | September 2nd, 2009, 11:45 EST |
| Launch Location | Sturbridge, MA - 42.12074, -72.06233 |
| Impact Location | Worcester, MA - 42.25504, -71.71943 |
| Distance Traveled | ~20 miles |
| Altitude Achieved | 98,000 feet, 17.5 miles |
| Helium Used | ~65 cubic feet |
| Weight | ~800g, 28oz |
| Camera | Canon A470 /w chdk open source firmware |
| Batteries | 4 Energizer Ultimate Lithium AA Batteries |
| GPS Reciever | Motorola i290 Prepaid Cellphone (“Boost Mobile”) |
| Tracking Software | Accutracking, Instamapper |
| Flight path | Google Earth kml |
| FAA regulation | Legal as long as payload is under 4 pounds |
**Below is a video for people who cannot access Youtube (e.g., people in China)
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Good joke
What would you get if you put a light bulb in a suit of armor? A knightlight.
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Интересный материал, спасибо!
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Позновательно!!!!
真棒！
Thought I wouldn’t ever get to do something like this, but you guys helped me renew my ideas at a lower cost of course. Is there some way that you could make it to where the rest of use that do this could post our projects on here as well? I think people would really injoy it.
Автору спасибо, продолжайте нас радовать!
Just to let you guys know, your work has been very inspiring! I am an undergraudate working at UCSD in the atmospheric chemistry department and this next semester I have planned to work with a local high school High Tech High to integrate your low cost balloon transportation with an automated gas sampler so I can observe the oxygen isotopes in CO2 at the late troposphere early stratosphere and get to work with high schoolers in the process. Thanks so much for your work. The high school will also make a video documentary and I’ll be sure to send you a copy when that gets done. Your work really is inspiring,
~John Horn
Как говорится.. Не дать не взять, зачётная статья!
Суперский пост! Блог уже в ридере )
Oliver and Justin:
Your project is fantastic! Could you email me the step-by-step illustrated guide you mention above? I have a group of high school physics students who would love to try a similar attempt.
Thanks,
David Gruber
more junk in the sky FFS last thing we need is copycats launching junks in the sky and no telling what aircraft its gonna hit or where its gonna fall FFS STOP THE NONSENSE
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I’m a part of a group aiming for a Friday, October 30th launch. We think we have everything worked out, but it would be nice to compare what we have with your notes. If you could email them to me, it would be much appreciated.
Project instructions slated for release by the end of which week?
Amazing Job! Would you be able to send me the step by step instructions on how to do this? I would love to try this out myself, as it would be the closest I would probably ever get to outer space. It would also allow my school to learn more about the layers of space and see “it up close and personal”. Thank you very much and i wish you luck
Major (majorwins@yahoo.com)
你们太棒了
А какой это движок? тоже хочу блог завести
很好很强大
很好很强大