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Oct132010
Brandon DavenportiPhone 4 sent to space attached to a weather balloon - captures amazing video
iPhone 4 sent to space attached to a weather balloon - captures amazing video
This is one of those moments where nothing else seems to matter — seeing the curvature of the earth, and the horizon where outer-space meets humans. The view is breathtaking and the drop from 100,000 feet (19 miles high) and zooms back to earth in an almost perfect fashion. The truly remarkable part of this video is it was done out of pure curiosity, and love of discovery. Just a father and son, flying balloons on a windy day.
In August 2010, we set out to send a camera to space. The mission was to attach an HD video camera to a weather balloon and send it up into the upper stratosphere to film the blackness beyond our earth. Eventually, the balloon will grow from lack of atmospheric pressure, burst, and begin to fall.
It would have to survive 100 mph winds, temperatures of 60 degrees below zero, speeds of over 150 mph, and the high risk of a water landing. To retrieve the craft, it would need to deploy a parachute, descend through the clouds and transmit a GPS coordinate to a cell phone tower. Then we have to find it…Quote from the video’s creator (un-able to find the original uploader)
Update - Apparently the iPhone 4 was just used as a GPS transmitter and nothing more — a GoPro Hero camera was used to capture video. Thanks J.D. Remington (comments).
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