{"id":287,"date":"2017-03-20T22:56:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bt-dt.eu\/?p=287"},"modified":"2017-03-20T23:34:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T21:34:41","slug":"space-the-final-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bt-dt.eu\/index.php\/2017\/03\/20\/space-the-final-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Space… the final frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever dreamt of going to space?! At least as a child you did.<\/h1>\n

\nUnfortunately\u00a0we didn\u2019t quite make it to space ~100km quite yet – but at >22km we (our balloon that is) have been higher than at least 99.99% of you out there.\u00a0Commercial airplanes fly at 8.5km to 10.7km to give you something graspable to compare it to.<\/p>\n

Ever since we saw the first footage of a camera attached to a weather balloon we became fascinated by the idea to take our own images. The visible curvature of our small sphere (speak: earth) floating through space captured was ever so inspiring. You don’t even need to spend a lot of money\u00a0doing so.<\/p>\n

The project dubbed \u201cspaceballoon\u201d was accomplished by the team (andreashornig<\/a>,exco<\/a>, makefu<\/a>) collaborating at our local hackerspace – the shack.\u00a0On Saturday, 4.3.2017 we successfully launched it from the nearby Grillplatz Rotenberg<\/a>on top of the W\u00fcrttemberg mountain.<\/span><\/p>\n

The launch was exciting – even more so because we had more than 10 people waiting for us on the hill we chose for takeoff.<\/p>\n

Here is a visualization attempt of the logged data:
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