Garrett, You and your team can be incredibly proud of what you have been able to accomplish during all of your BEAR flights!!! The video footage from BEAR-4 is simply AWESOME! Thank you for posting on RUclips and sharing your results with all of us! Wilf
If you read the video info, there's a link to the project website. If your interested in a "semi" unedited version (all that's cut is the period on the way up and down when the lens was frosted over) we've made a DVD availiable for a small donation to further future attempts. The DVD also has the "first" launch of this balloon lol...
There is a link in the video info to the Discovery Channel coverage of our launch, there is also a link to the project site with more information on the construction, as well as info on many of our other flights.
The flight prediction software we used takes our packages information, as well as we download information on the winds aloft data that enviroment canada collects from twice daily balloon launches of their own. That info with our data helps us estimate where it will go.
from the video info section, check out the link to our project website, there is a google earth KML file tracing the whole flight. It was launched from Sherwood Park, Alberta Canada, and landed approx. 90 miles east of the lauch location, 4.5 hours later.
omg that was one of the most amazing videos! i loved the sirens in the beginning at the 3:00 mark and when the ballon burst, the sound of the camera banging around. so there is a noise when no one is there to hear!
Check the video info for the link to our project site. This was NOT the MIT launch with a mobile phone, this package was tracked with APRS Amateur radio gear and multiple tracking vehicles. if you watch near the landing, there is a point where the camera swings around and catches a glimps of us as we stopped to watch it land. It travelled ~90 miles from the launch location.
It probably carried additional amateur radio equipment. Usually those ballon experiments transmit live data like speed, temperature, gps etc. and can be monitored from ground.
Amazing video. I especially like the time shortly after takeoff when you can hear the town's noises slowly fade away. It actually sounds like Simcity4 when you zoom out far :)
Not sure on the camera settings, the "owner" was from Tokeo and I couldn't read the settings lol, if I remember it was recorded at one below the max, I believe it was 30p. Rendering was done in Pinnacle Studio with the HD 720p preset. MPEG-2 video at 1280x720, 30fps at 15000Kbits/sec. Audio was MP2, 16bit at 48khz.
Great job guys, congratulations!!! What really amazes me when i see this video is the fact that our atmoshpere is incredibly thin and at the same time very fragile. This video does a great job reminding people how unique our planet is and how we should care more about it. Peace. Forza Steaua!!!
Not sure where your getting your data, but the temperature at that altitude is around -40C. The camera is heated by its own electronics, actually at those altitudes the camera we were afraid of overheating because there is no air to convect away the heat. Camera ran fine the whole way. The lens did fog both on the way up and down, but it didn't last too long and cleared up with lots of time to take great video.
I'm not sure what the danish news was reporting, but I've been getting this a fair bit too we didn't get anywhere near space. We refer to our launches as reaching into "Near Space"... The FAI classifies "Near Space" as the area between 75,000feet (~23km) and 62.5 miles (100km). We reached ~32 Km on this flight, which is in the "Near Space" range. 107Km is near the limit for a balloon launch, the current record is ~128000feet, which we're currently working at beating... ;)
a gyro was briefly considered but: added weight, added batteries, motors don't really like to run with no air to cool them, and added complexity. we had contimplated a weighted arm on a servo so we could "shuffle" around, but didn't have 2 way communication on this flight... The next one will be much more stable, and controllable...
You can totally tell this is in N. Alberta - from the hockey rink to the ground terrain, the all pick-up truck and SUV fleet, and the 42 inch waists...
INCREDIBLE! Thanks! That sound out there was like a mild breeze or something, but I don't believe there is wind anymore. I guess it's just the friction with the (very) thin air? It sounds like I always thought it would sound. Again, thanks so much! Maybe someday I will do a project like this together with some friends.
Fins don't work where there's virtually no atmosphere. BTW, it was mounted underneath... underneath the balloon and underneath the parachute. It's a pretty rough ride when everything is simply tumbling towards the ground in a near vacuum.
What parts are you looking for? I can always post more... posters before that were looking for a "high speed" version of the flight, well no, I'm not going to post that lol... even with the lens fogged sections cut, starting from right at the release until the landing, to fit 10 minutes its a 1000X fast forward, I nearly got sick lol, I'll be posting more cuts of sections in the next few days though.
Want to notice somethign cool? When the camera was in free fall there was no wind sound. There was little to no air at that elevation to make noise, any noise heard would have been something hitting the camera.
to both comments above, (and many others with similar questions) PLEASE check out our website listed in the Video Info, There are Google Earth KML files availiable of the full flight track, additional links to the Daily Planet episode covering the launch and detailed tracking info. No wireless feed, only telemetry information, at the end of the video you see us standing on the road watching it land ~90 miles from the launch location. We tracked it via radio and telemetry the whole way.
Thats why we're looking into a autopilot type system... Either existing or designed by us, that after cutting away will pilot the craft back to our position and circle until we take remote control and land it... From our site, actually I believe its on the donations page is a hint of what were looking to do next...
Since so many people have asked, please check out my other videos, I'm in the process of uploading the last 10 minutes of the altitude flight, right up to the balloon burst atm... More to follow over the next few days.
If you check the Video Info there's a link to our project website and from the video is a email address to contact us at if your interested in using part of the video we'd be happy to discuss it.
it would only blow/drift away from the launch area for a certain altitude before the wind disappears and the vacuum of space kicks in.. and they had a GPS on the camera..
Transmitter in the balloon package, and transceivers in the chase vehicle, the only recievers would have been the GPS's lol. It travelled ~90miles from launch. full details at the website in the Video Info.
Well, we did lol, there is a large chute above the package and just below the balloon, unfortunately, there is also *very* little atmosphere at those altitudes, no air to inflate the chute, so down she tumbles until the air is *thick* enough for it to fill and stabilize the package.
Wow! That's actually pretty close. I thought it would have traveled much further away considering how long it was up there and how high, the rotation of the earth and the wind. I'd have guessed it landed hundreds of miles away. Neat stuff!
Read the video info, check the website, Google earth KML's show the whole flight. We launched just outside Edmonton Alberta, Canada, it travelled approx. 80 miles east before landing outside Manville Alberta.
Very cool. Perhaps there is a way to prevent spinning during flight with a two balloon option or at least a two tether setup. Cool to see the laws of physics in action as the balloon fell almost as fast as the camera.
Yeah, what johnesco said. It went from "well, this is pretty high, I suppose" to "oh my god, we're in space," which left me kinda miffed. You could always host it somewhere with no time restrictions.
They do, well in the states the FAA does, in Canada its NavCanada. All our flights are listed with them, you'd be a idiot not too and the flights and what you can and can't fly etc... are regulated. they're made aware of when, where, how long, how high, when its crossing airtraffic airspace etc... then you notify them just before launch and they give you a go or ask you to wait until traffic clears. No real risk involved.
Flight prediction helped, but we would never rely on it. The balloon package had a APRS tracker onboard beaconing its GPS position via radio every 15 seconds, and all the tracking vehicles had receivers and computers which would plot the data from the balloon. Initial predictions had us 50 miles from where it actually landed which was about 90 miles from where we launched it.
well, it still F'n works after some gentle banging poking and pulling on things lol... the buttons on the LCD side display which control the camera stuck after the flight until the pressure equilized a couple of days later, the membrane above them was permenantly warped. NOTE: Any HD video camera manufacturers whome wish to prove operation at >100,000 feet, I'll be more than happy to accept units for testing... as long as I get to keep them... ;)
Is there a chute slowing the decent or is that just the drag from the ripped balloon that seemed to slow the fall? Seemed to not be falling very fast at the end.
300 Feet? lol where did you get that figure? ~89 Miles east of the launch is where we tracked it to. Google Earth KML track files of the flight are at the website in the Video Info.
Close, the ascent rate maxed out at around 1000fpm (11mph) the decent maxed out at around 8000fpm (90mph) and the fastest land speed it hit was around 167mph
Thank you so much. It is my dream to be chilling on the edge of the earth like that at 6 minutes into it--The true coming together of nothingness and somethingness. This is quite possibly the best video i've seen all year. the camera makes it seem as though one could just sit up there on a floating chair between the earth and the infinite space.
Well, first off, were not quite kids... I'd be the youngest at 33, the rest of our group are between 40-60. Also the FAA doesn't regulate air traffic in Canada its NavCanada that handles this type of thing. The package and payload aren't large enough to require alerting NavCanada, but with all of our flights we file NOTAM's (notice to all airmen) regarding the flight and its specifics, we contacted them at the required times, and the package was decending under parachute.
The MIT students sent a package up, Check out the link to our project site in the video info, lets just say it will involve wings, and hopefully not having to chase it so far...
.........that would have to be a reallllllly long something... Its very improbable to launch and land in the same place (never happened to us) but it does happen with the right wind conditions aloft. No strings, no "something" tied to the balloon, it travelled up to ~107000feet, burst, and came down again ~90miles from where we launched. Check the Video Info section for a link to our project page with a google earth KML file of the launch, it shows the track of the whole flight.
Absolutely GREAT!!! Now ur cam can say: "I was sent to the edge of space, n searched 4 a better place" thats awesome! Nice idea and good work. BIGUPS!!!!!
- well bottom fact is i think yer experiment is rather quiet interesting indeed, and i admire pepole theres brave enough to play with such things and get a rare and unique experience out of it - and please dont hesitate to publish more its wery interesting and i seriously cnsider t get yer DVD some time.
Now THAT I would have to see... ;) I can understand how it can happen, but for our "next" (or 2nd or 3rd next) flight I'm hoping for a little bit of downrange travel.... Have the give the package a little bit of distance to find its way back...
How did you learn about the next step? ;) I think I commented above about that, its not nearly as simple to use a glider, its not impossible either, just a lot more challenging...
What's this mini-GPS? ;) I'd love a simple system... The tracking system consisted of a APRS Tracker beaconing GPS position and info every 15 seconds via Amateur Radio, which was picked up by mobile trackers (vehicles) with combinations of computer and radio gear. That coupled with flight prediction software which modeled the flight on weather data helped us get close to the landing area, but it also comes down to skill to some part.
When you' re right you're right, it does say "amateur". But Burt Rutan is considered an amateur and I know he took HD video from his "Spaceship One" that went to space and back about 10 years ago. But don't get me wrong these guys did a great film, this is really kool IMO..
I expected the landing to be way faster, it felt like it was filmed from an airballoon and someone was just shakeing the camera. Anyways it was really interesting to watch it ;) Good job!
Check the video info, links to the site detailing the project, video links to Daily Planet on the Discovery Channels coverage of the project... It would be a whole lot of work to try and fake all that, it's much easier to actually do it than fake it.
That thought came up a couple of times, they would have only helped for the first 50K feet or so, after that its pretty calm, the weight is a factor, as well is the large surface area when it passes through the jetstream, didn't want to drive to halifax to pick it up. The "next" one I don't think we'll have to worry about spinning, the wings will take care of that.....
I'm thinking about it since so many have asked, give me a couple of days and I should have one up. If you think this is dizzying.... I've fast forwarded the DVD version a couple of times at 4x, thats bad enough to make me ill...
They had a great idea as well, they're also lucky they got their package back with the issues they had. I'm not sure how they figured without data that they hit 93000 feet, from their weight and balloon information, my estimate comes out to just over 70000 feet tops. I'd say ours probably "cost" around $300, the camera cost ~$1000 but its not really a cost. actually, our only "cost" was the balloon at ~$100 & gas, everything else was re-used.
- Magnificent video, and real cool yer manage to take pictures from outer space!! - but i missed some pictures from entering space and reenter earths atmosphere again that could have been totally awesome to watch.
Garrett,
You and your team can be incredibly proud of what you have been able to accomplish during all of your BEAR flights!!!
The video footage from BEAR-4 is simply AWESOME!
Thank you for posting on RUclips and sharing your results with all of us!
Wilf
That's incredible. I could watch this over and over again. Please make more like this!!
3:00 ur balloon now has a siren built into it to warn the birds lol
This flight didn't collect telemetry on temperature, but from our previous flights, the temperature at that altitude is around -30C.
I don't know why, but I love the audio from this, especially when it's first taking off, and when it's in space.
If you read the video info, there's a link to the project website. If your interested in a "semi" unedited version (all that's cut is the period on the way up and down when the lens was frosted over) we've made a DVD availiable for a small donation to further future attempts. The DVD also has the "first" launch of this balloon lol...
There is a link in the video info to the Discovery Channel coverage of our launch, there is also a link to the project site with more information on the construction, as well as info on many of our other flights.
The flight prediction software we used takes our packages information, as well as we download information on the winds aloft data that enviroment canada collects from twice daily balloon launches of their own. That info with our data helps us estimate where it will go.
from the video info section, check out the link to our project website, there is a google earth KML file tracing the whole flight. It was launched from Sherwood Park, Alberta Canada, and landed approx. 90 miles east of the lauch location, 4.5 hours later.
This is amazing, really terrific work you guys did here. Thanks for the ride!
What an amazingly cool thing to do. HUGE props to these guys who did it!
omg that was one of the most amazing videos! i loved the sirens in the beginning at the 3:00 mark and when the ballon burst, the sound of the camera banging around. so there is a noise when no one is there to hear!
Check the video info for the link to our project site. This was NOT the MIT launch with a mobile phone, this package was tracked with APRS Amateur radio gear and multiple tracking vehicles. if you watch near the landing, there is a point where the camera swings around and catches a glimps of us as we stopped to watch it land. It travelled ~90 miles from the launch location.
Sooooo awesome. One of those videos that restores a bit of a sense of wonder.
It probably carried additional amateur radio equipment. Usually those ballon experiments transmit live data like speed, temperature, gps etc. and can be monitored from ground.
Amazing video. I especially like the time shortly after takeoff when you can hear the town's noises slowly fade away. It actually sounds like Simcity4 when you zoom out far :)
Why doesn't this have millions of views? This video is breath-taking!
Not sure on the camera settings, the "owner" was from Tokeo and I couldn't read the settings lol, if I remember it was recorded at one below the max, I believe it was 30p. Rendering was done in Pinnacle Studio with the HD 720p preset. MPEG-2 video at 1280x720, 30fps at 15000Kbits/sec. Audio was MP2, 16bit at 48khz.
Great job guys, congratulations!!! What really amazes me when i see this video is the fact that our atmoshpere is incredibly thin and at the same time very fragile. This video does a great job reminding people how unique our planet is and how we should care more about it. Peace. Forza Steaua!!!
Not sure where your getting your data, but the temperature at that altitude is around -40C. The camera is heated by its own electronics, actually at those altitudes the camera we were afraid of overheating because there is no air to convect away the heat. Camera ran fine the whole way. The lens did fog both on the way up and down, but it didn't last too long and cleared up with lots of time to take great video.
We tracked it with radio telemetry for its full flight, it landed ~90 miles from where it was released.
I'm not sure what the danish news was reporting, but I've been getting this a fair bit too we didn't get anywhere near space.
We refer to our launches as reaching into "Near Space"... The FAI classifies "Near Space" as the area between 75,000feet (~23km) and 62.5 miles (100km).
We reached ~32 Km on this flight, which is in the "Near Space" range. 107Km is near the limit for a balloon launch, the current record is ~128000feet, which we're currently working at beating... ;)
Wow, watching that in full screen I got dizzy! Awesome job, thanks for posting this up for us to have the chance to see. :)
a gyro was briefly considered but: added weight, added batteries, motors don't really like to run with no air to cool them, and added complexity. we had contimplated a weighted arm on a servo so we could "shuffle" around, but didn't have 2 way communication on this flight... The next one will be much more stable, and controllable...
You can totally tell this is in N. Alberta - from the hockey rink to the ground terrain, the all pick-up truck and SUV fleet, and the 42 inch waists...
INCREDIBLE! Thanks!
That sound out there was like a mild breeze or something, but I don't believe there is wind anymore. I guess it's just the friction with the (very) thin air? It sounds like I always thought it would sound.
Again, thanks so much! Maybe someday I will do a project like this together with some friends.
Fins don't work where there's virtually no atmosphere. BTW, it was mounted underneath... underneath the balloon and underneath the parachute. It's a pretty rough ride when everything is simply tumbling towards the ground in a near vacuum.
What parts are you looking for? I can always post more... posters before that were looking for a "high speed" version of the flight, well no, I'm not going to post that lol... even with the lens fogged sections cut, starting from right at the release until the landing, to fit 10 minutes its a 1000X fast forward, I nearly got sick lol, I'll be posting more cuts of sections in the next few days though.
Want to notice somethign cool? When the camera was in free fall there was no wind sound. There was little to no air at that elevation to make noise, any noise heard would have been something hitting the camera.
to both comments above, (and many others with similar questions) PLEASE check out our website listed in the Video Info, There are Google Earth KML files availiable of the full flight track, additional links to the Daily Planet episode covering the launch and detailed tracking info. No wireless feed, only telemetry information, at the end of the video you see us standing on the road watching it land ~90 miles from the launch location. We tracked it via radio and telemetry the whole way.
That was amazing. Can't wait to see future versions.
The camera was mounted in a custom made styrofoam box.
Check out the link to our site from the Video Info, many more details there.
Thats why we're looking into a autopilot type system... Either existing or designed by us, that after cutting away will pilot the craft back to our position and circle until we take remote control and land it... From our site, actually I believe its on the donations page is a hint of what were looking to do next...
Since so many people have asked, please check out my other videos, I'm in the process of uploading the last 10 minutes of the altitude flight, right up to the balloon burst atm... More to follow over the next few days.
Great video, excellent quality and a nice story behind it. Well done indeed.
Woah. It's so cool how quiet it gets when it's sub-orbital.
All you need is an HD Camera and a GPS system attached to the camera.. along with a drag parachute with the balloon once it pops.. nice work!!
I'd recommend next time fabricating some large, lightweight fins and mounting them to the camera enclosure, to dampen the spinning.
The video camera was capturing at 1920x1080 at 30fps.
You guys are amazing, keep up the very professional work!
If you check the Video Info there's a link to our project website and from the video is a email address to contact us at if your interested in using part of the video we'd be happy to discuss it.
Okay...THIS is the COOLEST video I have EVER seen! Way to go, guys!!! This one made my day!!!
when it was coming down I just wanted to yell at my monitor "HOLD THE THING STILL!!" but it was amazing how steady it was on the way up.
Totally cool. Would have been nice to have an altimeter in view of the lens so you could see how high at any given time.
it would only blow/drift away from the launch area for a certain altitude before the wind disappears and the vacuum of space kicks in.. and they had a GPS on the camera..
Transmitter in the balloon package, and transceivers in the chase vehicle, the only recievers would have been the GPS's lol.
It travelled ~90miles from launch.
full details at the website in the Video Info.
Well, we did lol, there is a large chute above the package and just below the balloon, unfortunately, there is also *very* little atmosphere at those altitudes, no air to inflate the chute, so down she tumbles until the air is *thick* enough for it to fill and stabilize the package.
zen like peace, no killing or manipulating or famines or droughts, or poverty or anything. just spectacular nature and calmness.
Wow! That's actually pretty close. I thought it would have traveled much further away considering how long it was up there and how high, the rotation of the earth and the wind. I'd have guessed it landed hundreds of miles away. Neat stuff!
Read the video info, check the website, Google earth KML's show the whole flight. We launched just outside Edmonton Alberta, Canada, it travelled approx. 80 miles east before landing outside Manville Alberta.
SIMPLEMENTE BELLEZA EXTREMA!!!
felicidades al equipo BEAR.
Muy buen logro.!! Gracias por llevarnos en el viaje.
Absolutely amazing
There is still atmosphere at that altitude, it is just extremely thin, I would say that is why the balloon popped.
It's amazing to know how the space "sounds"
Very cool.
Perhaps there is a way to prevent spinning during flight with a two balloon option or at least a two tether setup.
Cool to see the laws of physics in action as the balloon fell almost as fast as the camera.
Great job! I am also curious to see how that was tracked, and retrieved so quickly.
They most likely added a GPS tracking device to it
cool! i hope they do another one soon, but with a balloon design that controls the spin...
Yeah, what johnesco said. It went from "well, this is pretty high, I suppose" to "oh my god, we're in space," which left me kinda miffed.
You could always host it somewhere with no time restrictions.
I guess if you'd put in some kind of counter weight attached to the lens part, it would have captured a (kind of) steady image on the way down!
They do, well in the states the FAA does, in Canada its NavCanada. All our flights are listed with them, you'd be a idiot not too and the flights and what you can and can't fly etc... are regulated. they're made aware of when, where, how long, how high, when its crossing airtraffic airspace etc... then you notify them just before launch and they give you a go or ask you to wait until traffic clears. No real risk involved.
Sooo awesome!
Flight prediction helped, but we would never rely on it. The balloon package had a APRS tracker onboard beaconing its GPS position via radio every 15 seconds, and all the tracking vehicles had receivers and computers which would plot the data from the balloon. Initial predictions had us 50 miles from where it actually landed which was about 90 miles from where we launched it.
That was awesome! I think you should post the whole thing in parts.
well, it still F'n works after some gentle banging poking and pulling on things lol... the buttons on the LCD side display which control the camera stuck after the flight until the pressure equilized a couple of days later, the membrane above them was permenantly warped.
NOTE: Any HD video camera manufacturers whome wish to prove operation at >100,000 feet, I'll be more than happy to accept units for testing... as long as I get to keep them... ;)
Is there a chute slowing the decent or is that just the drag from the ripped balloon that seemed to slow the fall? Seemed to not be falling very fast at the end.
300 Feet? lol where did you get that figure? ~89 Miles east of the launch is where we tracked it to. Google Earth KML track files of the flight are at the website in the Video Info.
How long does it take to upload the video on youtube???????????
Close, the ascent rate maxed out at around 1000fpm (11mph) the decent maxed out at around 8000fpm (90mph) and the fastest land speed it hit was around 167mph
Thank you so much. It is my dream to be chilling on the edge of the earth like that at 6 minutes into it--The true coming together of nothingness and somethingness.
This is quite possibly the best video i've seen all year. the camera makes it seem as though one could just sit up there on a floating chair between the earth and the infinite space.
Follow the link in the info, or follow the URL in the video, all our attempts, the hardware, the equipment, the story, Its all there.
Well, first off, were not quite kids... I'd be the youngest at 33, the rest of our group are between 40-60. Also the FAA doesn't regulate air traffic in Canada its NavCanada that handles this type of thing.
The package and payload aren't large enough to require alerting NavCanada, but with all of our flights we file NOTAM's (notice to all airmen) regarding the flight and its specifics, we contacted them at the required times, and the package was decending under parachute.
The MIT students sent a package up, Check out the link to our project site in the video info, lets just say it will involve wings, and hopefully not having to chase it so far...
.........that would have to be a reallllllly long something... Its very improbable to launch and land in the same place (never happened to us) but it does happen with the right wind conditions aloft. No strings, no "something" tied to the balloon, it travelled up to ~107000feet, burst, and came down again ~90miles from where we launched. Check the Video Info section for a link to our project page with a google earth KML file of the launch, it shows the track of the whole flight.
absolutely amazing. I'd love to see the full unedited version, maybe they could put it on google video.
Absolutely GREAT!!! Now ur cam can say: "I was sent to the edge of space, n searched 4 a better place" thats awesome! Nice idea and good work. BIGUPS!!!!!
- well bottom fact is i think yer experiment is rather quiet interesting indeed, and i admire pepole theres brave enough to play with such things and get a rare and unique experience out of it - and please dont hesitate to publish more its wery interesting and i seriously cnsider t get yer DVD some time.
Awesome video.
I thought you cant hear anything in space... but i heard the balloon pop!!
Now THAT I would have to see... ;)
I can understand how it can happen, but for our "next" (or 2nd or 3rd next) flight I'm hoping for a little bit of downrange travel.... Have the give the package a little bit of distance to find its way back...
is there a documentary for this? like how they prepare it all and stuff.
How did you learn about the next step? ;)
I think I commented above about that, its not nearly as simple to use a glider, its not impossible either, just a lot more challenging...
I enjoyed the video and I really liked the work of these people!
What's this mini-GPS? ;) I'd love a simple system...
The tracking system consisted of a APRS Tracker beaconing GPS position and info every 15 seconds via Amateur Radio, which was picked up by mobile trackers (vehicles) with combinations of computer and radio gear. That coupled with flight prediction software which modeled the flight on weather data helped us get close to the landing area, but it also comes down to skill to some part.
Very cool, except now I'm seasick ... I really think it should be possible to design a more stable parachute?
When you'
re right you're right, it does say "amateur". But Burt Rutan is considered an amateur and I know he took HD video from his "Spaceship One" that went to space and back about 10 years ago. But don't get me wrong these guys did a great film, this is really kool IMO..
I expected the landing to be way faster, it felt like it was filmed from an airballoon and someone was just shakeing the camera. Anyways it was really interesting to watch it ;) Good job!
Check the video info, links to the site detailing the project, video links to Daily Planet on the Discovery Channels coverage of the project... It would be a whole lot of work to try and fake all that, it's much easier to actually do it than fake it.
Pretty good tracking of it to be near where it came down.
That thought came up a couple of times, they would have only helped for the first 50K feet or so, after that its pretty calm, the weight is a factor, as well is the large surface area when it passes through the jetstream, didn't want to drive to halifax to pick it up.
The "next" one I don't think we'll have to worry about spinning, the wings will take care of that.....
Awsome! Speakless! one of the best videos that i ever watched on youtube!
I'm thinking about it since so many have asked, give me a couple of days and I should have one up. If you think this is dizzying.... I've fast forwarded the DVD version a couple of times at 4x, thats bad enough to make me ill...
how many of those balloons would you suppose i need to lift myself that high?
I see you've got the frozen view count problem :\
Purely awesome vid guys :)
Wow~~ did you see that horizon? b4 it popped? Amazing!!
They had a great idea as well, they're also lucky they got their package back with the issues they had. I'm not sure how they figured without data that they hit 93000 feet, from their weight and balloon information, my estimate comes out to just over 70000 feet tops. I'd say ours probably "cost" around $300, the camera cost ~$1000 but its not really a cost. actually, our only "cost" was the balloon at ~$100 & gas, everything else was re-used.
I have a monster headache now. But it was worth it. Thanks for showing us this.
Without a doubt the most amazing video I've ever seen!
Makes my "camera on a kite" experiment seem totally lame.
@fb767 and how do you think... They got the video, therefore I guess they found their camera
- Magnificent video, and real cool yer manage to take pictures from outer space!! - but i missed some pictures from entering space and reenter earths atmosphere again that could have been totally awesome to watch.
I'm curious as to how you tracked it.