Several other groups have successfully launched balloons into the upper stratosphere and taken photographs of the earth from way up above (click on any of the links below to check out their launches). As far as we know, however, we are the first group ever to accomplish this feat on a budget of $150 and with off-the-shelf components available to the average layperson.
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Hey dudes, some buddies from the RPI electronics club recently launched.
If you guys are in the Albany area again let us know, you won’t have
to sleep in a parking lot.
http://www.transistor-man.com/balloon.html
This reminds me of another person who used a balloon to carry a small glider up and then it flew in a homing flight to where it was launched.
http://www.members.shaw.ca/sonde/
7 months ago.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1162659/Students-tie-56-camera-balloon-send-edge-space-capture-stunning-images-Earth.html
Earlier in 2009 the BBC replicated Joe Kittinger’s free fall see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bang/ where they use a balloon to launch ‘Dallas’ their 12″ astronaut plus camera and let him free fall back to earth. Scroll the video clips until you find . (Apologies if viewing is restricted in some countries)
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Nicely done. Having been a part of several private launches, I can attest to the education and accomplishment that these students must feel. Well done!
http://www.hapb.net – High Altitude Photographic Balloon
The Hackerbot Labs guys in Seattle did a launch and took photos a while back also– http://www.hackerbotlabs.com/2009/06/to-the-edge-of-space-and-back/
There are many groups around the country (and indeed the world) doing this with Amateur Radio. See http://www.arhab.org for a list. While many groups have spent hundreds or thousands of dollars on equipment, some very capable experimentation can be done on a “beer budget”. Kudos for executing a simple yet very successful mission.
You forgot J. Powell and his JP Aerospace: http://www.jpaerospace.com/
Nice pics guys! We also have been doing something like this with CosmoCam. Just flew in NM two weeks ago with live video during flight. You should apply for a spot on next years HASP mission…
Adler Planetarium launched a Peep into near space. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygpYWzKGN6c Peep training: http://svl.adlerplanetarium.org/astropeep/
We also did a project like this back in May; we used an arduino with a gps shield to control a cell phone, which then texted the coordinates to Twitter. We didn’t like the data we received, so we never even looked for it; you can read up on ours at http://devingaffney.com/gps-balloon. All the directions, step for step, are outlined there, with pictures and links to all of our code and hardware used.
This is pretty fantastic, guys. I think I’d like to give this a shot with a few buddies of mine, but I can’t figure out how you tracked altitude. Does the GPS also transmit that data as well?
You should launch a glider (as mentioned above) with a digital camera to get cleaner return footage. This guy wants to launch a paper airplane from space.
Here’s another one: this weekend, a couple people and I launched a laptop in a styrofoam cooler attached to a weather balloon for a high-school project. We launched an entire laptop because we wanted to transmit images to the ground along with the GPS data! The balloon turned out to be leaky, so we only got a few hundred feet up before it came back down, but not before we transmitted some incredible images from a laptop drifting across the sky.
Methods and details here: http://www.joespacetourist.com/2010/01/near-space-photography-attempts-1-and-2.html
We launched last weekend and put together a site… have a look.
http://sites.google.com/site/ledzeppelinweatherballoon/
Thanks guys. After seven months of planning, I launched this weekend in Pennsylvania. I had a few condensation problems during the ascent and descent, but it accomplished the goal of photographing the curvature of the earth, the blackness of space, and doing it on a relatively low budget. And it was a ton of fun, i.e. a lot of work but a good excuse to use PV=nRT. Thanks again.
http://www.chrzan.com/CurveOne/CurveOne.html
Nice Pics!! You inspired us to launch a Near Space Photography Ballon!
http://die-kakaobohne.de/index.php/32km
Greetings from Germany!
Perkins K-8 School in San Diego was inspired by this experiment and a team of 8th grade students successfully recreated this experiment. We launched from the desert south of the Salton Sea. We used a Canon PowerShot SD780 IS programmed from a downloaded script for an intervalometer. We used the Motorola i290, hand warmers, and a $2.00 stryrofoam cooler. The phone shut down during flight. We believe that the hand warmer were not able to keep it warm. The camera also shut down after the balloon had burst. A city worker in Salton City, California found our project, turned on the phone and we were able to track it to his home using accutracker. We will post all 1,200 pictures on our website in mid-August 2010 and we will repeat this experiment again using video cameras. Thank you for inspiring us.