GoPro in Space!

KarmaInitiative · 2010-06-16 13:27:39

I guess some guys made a weather balloon with two gopros in it and sent it into low space, check it out Near Space Balloon Flight, shot with HD HERO cameras from GoPro from Kevin Macko on Vimeo.

eheath

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Haha that was pretty sick

Jun 16 2010 2:04PM

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Tanner-D

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Really neat

Jun 16 2010 2:19PM

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miroz

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Creativity points. Thats magnificent.

Jun 16 2010 2:29PM

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That was sick! That's an awesome way to spend an afternoon, I'm sure I wouldn't be able to do it right.

(the last shot in the video explains a lot)

Jun 16 2010 3:08PM

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Hansel.

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I would hope that they sent this to gopro and in return they got some free shit. That is some serious R&D

Jun 16 2010 3:11PM

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coolest thing I've seen in a while. thanks for posting

Jun 16 2010 3:11PM

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powday

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that's awesome. GoPro's uses can be endless!

Jun 16 2010 3:13PM

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dwhite

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You can drop it from space and it still won't break....I love GoPros

Jun 16 2010 3:17PM

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very cool, but isn't that sort of dangerous to just let it soar back down to earth like that?

Jun 16 2010 3:23PM

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Meh, there was a drag chute attached.

Jun 16 2010 3:52PM

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How did they find out where it landed?

Jun 16 2010 3:57PM

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that was pretty awesome. such a good idea...

Jun 16 2010 3:58PM

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thats what i was thinking

Jun 16 2010 4:11PM

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probly had some sort of tracking/ gps device on it

Jun 16 2010 4:21PM

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MAC.D

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GPS tracking?

Jun 16 2010 4:26PM

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that was so damn sick

Jun 16 2010 4:57PM

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i need a gopro

Jun 16 2010 5:31PM

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i need a weather ballon

Jun 16 2010 5:55PM

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Deezy

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at the end, i thought the poped baloon was a person falling. haha, and i wonder how they found it. probs a GPS or something. looking into the sky for 3 hours wouldnt be fun.

Jun 16 2010 6:15PM

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that was so sick, the fisheye look made it look like it made it to true outer space, but 80,000ft is still really impressive

Jun 16 2010 6:41PM

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KarmaInitiative

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from the description

"Acquired GPS, pressure, accelerometer, and temperature data with a Shadowbox (www.shadowboxlive.com). The payload was tracked with a SPOT satellite personal tracker. "

Jun 16 2010 7:53PM

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Well, that's one more thing I won't be using my gopro for then. They got some nice shots though..

Jun 16 2010 8:05PM

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+K for such a brilliant idea!

Jun 17 2010 7:50AM

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that was sick

Jun 17 2010 8:40AM

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so cool, the photos at the end were absolutely incredible

Jun 17 2010 1:36PM

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garrets

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That was seriously one of the coolest things I've seen in a while. That was awesome!

Jun 17 2010 2:04PM

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i love California...

Jun 17 2010 2:50PM

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damn. 70 miles up and back. thats so sick

Jun 17 2010 3:13PM

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that was really cool, it gave of sick qual. too

Jun 17 2010 3:36PM

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That was amazing. Such a good idea.

Jun 17 2010 3:50PM

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i need a gopro and a weather ballon....

Jun 17 2010 4:19PM

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haha sick

Jun 17 2010 4:36PM

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anyone else surprised both cameras survived an 80,000 foot fall?

Jun 17 2010 10:36PM

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Deezy

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exactly the reason GoPros were used.

Jun 19 2010 11:22AM

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Threads for when I'm not on my iPod

Jun 19 2010 1:47PM

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that was exceptional.

Jun 19 2010 3:22PM

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that was so damn sick. thoses cameras are so tough

Jun 19 2010 3:45PM

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that was awesome. they had some big SD cards to hold that much HD video.

Jun 19 2010 6:53PM

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Wow that was one of the coolest things I've seen in M&A in a really long time.

Jun 19 2010 11:43PM

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Threads for when I'm not on iPod.

Jun 20 2010 2:17AM

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such a sick idea

Jun 20 2010 3:47AM

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That was one of the coolest things I've seen, ever.

Jun 20 2010 4:29AM

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PBraunstein

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this one is sick... but check out this guys homemade weather balloon... a bit more baller i would say..

this one makes it to 125,000 ft. with 2 hacked point and shoot cameras that are programmed to take a picture every and record video every few minutes.

now granted its not in HD, i think these shots are waaay cooler then the go-pro weather balloon

Pacific Star II from Colin Rich on Vimeo.

Jun 20 2010 11:02AM

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That was almost better^^the stills were crazy cool.

Jun 22 2010 1:29AM

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did you even watch the video? it says 80,000 feet peak altitude, and the 70 miles your thinking of is HORIZONTAL distance traveled, so 70 miles away from starting spot.

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