Comments on: Other Launches

By: Fernando J Hernandez

Fernando J Hernandez — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:39:00 +0000

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.

By: Hendrik

Hendrik — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:29:42 +0000

Nice Pics!! You inspired us to launch a Near Space Photography Ballon!

http://die-kakaobohne.de/index.php/32km

Greetings from Germany!

By: Jeremy Chrzan

Jeremy Chrzan — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:21:21 +0000

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

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:15:37 +0000

We launched last weekend and put together a site… have a look.

http://sites.google.com/site/ledzeppelinweatherballoon/

By: Joe Space Tourist

Joe Space Tourist — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:38:23 +0000

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

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:23:42 +0000

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.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:48:17 +0000

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?

By: Devin Gaffney

Devin Gaffney — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:42:11 +0000

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.

By: HankyPanky

HankyPanky — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:07:47 +0000

Adler Planetarium launched a Peep into near space. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygpYWzKGN6c Peep training: http://svl.adlerplanetarium.org/astropeep/

By: SDM

SDM — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:54:05 +0000

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…