ESF goes to space I
April 30th, 2010
| Tags: balloon, space, undergraduate students
The following images showcase the space balloon experiment undertaken in Spring 2010 by our undergraduate students as part of the introductory remote sensing course. Students built their own sensor using a styrofoam box, a GPS-enabled cell phone, two digital cameras, two parachutes and a helium balloon. The flight lasted ~2.5 hours, the maximum altitude was ~90,000 feet and the sensor was recovered ~160 miles away. Four high resolution images taken by our cameras are available below.
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- ESF Quad
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- Hudson River
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- Space View II
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- Space View I
A quick video description of the project is available here.
For more information on the project follow any of these links:
Post-Standard Story
Syracuse.com Story
Post-Standard Follow up
Local NBC video
Pictures of the team
Fantastic images! At what height and location above NY did the balloon pop and begin to fall?
@Noah Endreny
Noah, we are still analyzing the data. We think the maximum height was reached close to Balsam Lake Mountain in the Catskills and it was more than 80,000 feet. The maximum horizontal speed we detected was 120 mph around Olivebridge, NY.
Fabulous images. Never seen ESF on that high. I am wondering anyone on the balloon or the camera took the images automatically.
Oh I saw the pictures now. The camera was actually carried aloft by the balloon.
How much time passed from the launch of the ballon on the quad to when it touched ground again?
The total flight time was less than 3 hours.