Successful High Altitude Balloon!

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Jean-Sébastien Busque launched his own balloon and got pictures!!! Wow, these are great!!!

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I love your weekend projects. After I saw your ballon launch I had to try it. So last week I launched a hellium ballon with a video camera, a still camera, gps and a ham radio and guess what? It worked! Balloon got to 28km +/-. It traveled about 100km east from the launch site (100 km south east of Montréal, Canada)

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Posted by: jordan314 on July 25, 2007 at 8:51 AM

Holy wow! That's amazing.
BTW did make ever find their weather balloon?


Posted by: JPavleck on July 25, 2007 at 9:04 AM

Wow, those are some impressive photos. I've got an old Nikon D50 kicking around, maybe I'll have to give this a shot - looks like a lot of fun!


Posted by: MonkeyWork on July 25, 2007 at 9:20 AM

weather balloon, lawn chair... camcorder..six pack. son we gots ourselves an adventure.

Nice job guys the pics are first rate.


Posted by: Bre on July 25, 2007 at 9:30 AM

AHAB is still out there... with a phone number on it, waiting for someone to stumble upon it!


Posted by: SamMaghsoodloo on July 25, 2007 at 10:35 AM

I want to see the video!!! Or some full res stills. This is amazing, is it really this easy to get something nearly to space? There's gotta be some other awesome uses for this method.


Posted by: aplumb on July 25, 2007 at 12:34 PM

Nicely done, JSB! Glad to see you've stayed active since our early days at VE3SSN.


Posted by: aplumb on July 25, 2007 at 12:34 PM

Nicely done, JSB! Glad to see you've stayed active since our early days at VE3SSN.


Posted by: naikrovek on July 25, 2007 at 1:13 PM

fourth picture down, lower left corner: jet contrails? looks like you may have barely missed a nice opportunity to photograph a high altitude aircraft.


Posted by: jsbusque on July 25, 2007 at 2:46 PM

We have on the video camera a quick view of a aircraft flying by. The plane is about 40k feet below the balloon. All of the video footage is pretty shaky (turning from side to side)


Posted by: pablos08 on July 26, 2007 at 12:53 AM

Damn, nice photos. And you guys dress so much better than those nerds at the Hackerbot Lab.


Posted by: cchelle on July 26, 2007 at 1:12 PM

how did you retrieve your payload? how did you make sure your payload didn't damage anyone/thing when it returned to ground?


Posted by: irongus on August 9, 2007 at 1:19 PM

Did you have to get any government permissions to do your launch?


Posted by: Thanh on January 29, 2008 at 12:22 AM

WOW, great stuff!
Where do we get such big balloon? how expensive is that?


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