Homemade spacecraft

Several eccentrics from Brooklyn with the help of improvised means and a balloon, which is used by meteorological probe manufacturing, launched a set of GPS-navigator and iPhone into the stratosphere. The video shows the various stages of testing and launch with comments in English.







Reaching the maximum estimated height, the balloon burst, and everything flew safely down. The whole set landed (hung on a tree) at a distance of 50 kilometers from the launch site, and it was found by GPS navigator signals. The flight to the stratosphere and back took several hours. The device has undergone the strongest wind (more than 160 kilometers per hour), a temperature of minus 60 degrees Celsius (for which it was somehow protected) and has risen to a height of more than 30,000 meters!

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More information about the project can be found on its website www.brooklynspaceprogram.org/BSP/About_us.html There you can also order a DVD with all the video footage of the flight, including a full-length recording made during the expedition.



UPD1 Regarding the disputes about wind speed and the distance traveled, I note that the atmosphere is such a layer cake of winds of varying strength, temperature and direction:

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Jettling

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratosphere

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trososphere

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropopause



UPD2 blo reports:

Yes, this is at least the third such experiment, the previous 2 were described in Habré

habrahabr.ru/blogs/i_am_clever/54901/

habrahabr.ru/blogs/popular_science/75150/

UPD2 wazd corrects:

The kit consisted of a HD camera and an iPhone, which was just the navigator.