Weather Balloon Photography
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TvrTone said:
I helped track that one! There were 2 payloads attached to the one balloon, with the upper payload transmitting the position via radio, and the lower using a tracker module as a backup. The GPS in the upper one failed early on, so whilst we could receive the radio data OK, it contained no actual location information. We had a rough idea when it landed (because of loss of radio reception) but no real idea where. It turned up the next morning when the backup tracker responded to a position request - it was in the North Sea a few miles from where mine landed! A short while later a chap called Steve Randall, who lives nearby and is one of the originators of this hobby in the UK, paid for a boat to go out and retrieve the payload! All cameras had stayed working throughout the flight so they got some great images and video back.Dave
Good luck with the launch mate, shall be looking to the skies on Saturday, very doubtful I'll see anything but I do live in Newbury so you never know.
I'm actually very interested in doing this myself now is there a website dedicated to this sort of thing something along the lines of "balloon heads, altitude matters"???
Metatron
I'm actually very interested in doing this myself now is there a website dedicated to this sort of thing something along the lines of "balloon heads, altitude matters"???
Metatron
TvrTone said:
I like how they use Boards of Canada's Dayvan Cowboy as the background music, since the first half of the video for Dayvan Cowboy is from Joseph Kittinger's balloon jump at a similar altitude 
baz7175 said:
You have a link to watch it live again Dave? Gives me something to do before going to bed over here... 
http://spacenear.us/tracker/It'll appear on there as "BUZZ". You should also be able to see my chase car as "chase-daveake". As it's PH I should mention that the chase car is a Pug 406 V6 Coupe, so it should be able to keep up :-).
Dave
daveake said:
http://spacenear.us/tracker/
It'll appear on there as "BUZZ". You should also be able to see my chase car as "chase-daveake". As it's PH I should mention that the chase car is a Pug 406 V6 Coupe, so it should be able to keep up :-).
Dave
Awesome, cheers Dave - will keep an eye on proceedings again just like last time from the wrong side of the Atlantic It'll appear on there as "BUZZ". You should also be able to see my chase car as "chase-daveake". As it's PH I should mention that the chase car is a Pug 406 V6 Coupe, so it should be able to keep up :-).
Dave
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