Meteotek high-altitude balloon project

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By Gareth Branwyn
Posted 2009/03/12 @ 8:57 pm
Category Art & Design, Fun & Games, Science

Meteotek is a Spanish high school project to build a meteorological sounding balloon equipped with temperature and pressure sensors, GPS, radio, and a still camera. They had a successful launched on February 28, 2009. Their Flickr pages are in (Catalan) Spanish, but the photos speak for themselves. It’s just endlessly amazing to me that the technology now exists for amateurs, high school kids even, to be able to reach into space. Check out that back seat space command center!

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BY Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn is a freelancer writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture, including the first book about the web (Mosaic Quick Tour) and the Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots. He is currently working on a best-of collection of his writing, called Borg Like Me.

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6 Responses to Meteotek high-altitude balloon project

Anonymous coward on March 13th, 2009 at 3:14 am said:

Having spanish as a first language, I was surprised when I found the website difficult to understand… turns out it’s written in Catalan.

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garethb2 on March 13th, 2009 at 9:57 am said:

Hah. Yeah, it didn’t look like the Spanish I had in high school, I knew that. Then I thought it might be Portuguese, but it didn’t appear to be that. Catalan! Of course. I added a clarifier in post.

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Borja on March 13th, 2009 at 10:51 am said:

Spain have at least 8 other oficial languages besides spanish. For example ,I speak Catalan and Spanish, but i’ve friends that speak Catalan, Spanish, Aranes, and few words of Euskera. I’ts amazing how many languages we have!!

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DiÃ³genes on March 18th, 2009 at 10:30 am said:

La verdad que menuda estupidez hacer la pÃ¡gina en catalÃ¡n y en inglÃ©s y no en espaÃ±ol.

Para ser tan currantes y conseguir enviar un globo a la conchinchina habeis quedado como unos pepinos redactando la pÃ¡gina, honestamente. Todo el mÃ©rito que os dio una cosa os lo quitÃ³ la otra.

Saludos cordiales.

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Kyle Crockett on August 26th, 2011 at 3:45 pm said:

http://hab-ham.org/forum/
High Altitude Ballooning Forum

Check it out…

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Kyle Crockett on August 26th, 2011 at 3:45 pm said:

http://hab-ham.org/forum/
High Altitude Ballooning Forum

Check it out…

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