A really awesome experiment performed by a father and son. Hook an iphone up to a high altitude balloon while set to capture video, and recover it via GPS once it fell back to earth. The footage is really spectacular, its very interesting to think about what we can do with readily available technology today.
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"The father-and-son team from Brooklyn managed to send their homemade spacecraft up nearly 19 miles, high into the stratosphere, bringing back perhaps the most impressive amateur space footage ever. The duo housed the video camera, iPhone, and GPS equipment in a specially designed insulated casing, along with some hand-warmers and a note from Max requesting its safe return from whomever may find it after making it back to solid ground. All told, father and son spent eight months preparing for their homemade journey into space, in hopes of filming "the blackness beyond our earth."
Is the most most impressive amateur space footage ever i have seen.
ReplyDeletethat was SOOO cool!
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