Landon McCoy writes “After a year of planning, designing, and preparation, we, the Engineering Club at Arnold High School in Panama City Beach, FL, have FINALLY released our high-altitude weather balloon! It traveled a total of 90,000ft (~28,000m) into the atmosphere, capturing stunning views of near-space with the on-board GoPro. With the help of a Spot Gen3 GPS tracker included in our payload, we found it in St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in Wakulla County, FL–a full 100 miles (160km) from Gulf Coast State College where we launched it from!”
David S
There was a great story I heard closer to the holidays that this reminded me of. A father sent his son’s stuffed animal up in one of these balloon/camera setups. Great story if you want to read the article and see the footage. Many awesome dad points for this guy.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/father-reindeer-2018-odyssey-space-video-a8659931.html
Wes
I will check it out thanks David
Darin W
It would have been even better if they’d replaced the standard GoPro fisheye lens with a regular one so we don’t get all that needless distortion…
Wes
That would have been awesome Darin. That is the only thing I dislike about the gopro is when it films it gives you that fish bowl look.
Jamie w
This will make the flat earth nuts mad