The balloon has landed! We have recovered over 2 hours of HD video, nearly 1000 high-resolution images, and our pride. Check out the sweet, sweet fruits of our labor.
The video has been edited down to 8 minutes of highlights.
The 200 best pictures have been edited into a 4-minute video.
If you are interested in downloading any of the images, all of them have been uploaded full resolution to a smugmug gallery:
http://cramerphoto.smugmug.com/School/SSA2/10013507_K3ujy/1/685192115_QPBjU
Some other relevant data from the flight:
Launch date: 05/17/2009
Launch time: 12:02:09
Burst time: 12:44:20
Landing time: 13:11:02
Time to burst: 42:11
Flight time: 1:08:53
Distance traveled: 47.81 miles
Actual touchdown location: 38.407502, -77.716714 (+38° 24′ 27.01″, -77° 43′ 0.17″)
Distance from projected landing location: 6.30 miles
Time of last clean GPS transmission: 12:32:42
Last clean GPS location transmitted: 38.19900,-78.17267
Last clean GPS altitude transmitted: 42603 ft
Last GPS location transmitted: 38.36367,-77.84600
Last GPS altitude transmitted: 28214 ft
Bottom-mounted camera: Kodak Zi6 HD (modified to receive external DC voltage)
Side-mounted camera: Canon SD790 IS (running CHDK opensource firmware)
Balloon: Kaymont KCI 1500 sounding balloon
GPS antenna: ONSHINE GPS Antenna ANT-555
GPS module: Copernicus DIP Module
GPS evaluation board: GPS Evaluation Board – ET312
FM Transmitter: Micro-Trak 8000 FA
HAM Callsign: KJ4JEF-11
All GPS data received from the balloon (CSV format)
Cleaned up data in KML format
KML file in Google Maps (making a beeline for the White House)
CHDK script used to run the still camera
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