We are going to launch a weather ballon to achieve three goals:
- Obtain pictures and video of St. Louis and the earth from high altitude
- Execute a well organized project to attract people to Arch Reactor
- Provide a good knowledge base and experience for future flights
A KCI1200 balloon is capable of reaching in excess of 90k feet. We'll have a payload containing a still camera, HD video camera, high altitude GPS, cell phone to broadcast low level GPS and an Arduino logging sensor information.
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