In early 2010 a group of us decided to launch a weather balloon into sub-space (with a camera and GPS system). Bill and I drove up to meet up with the rest of Team Space Balloon in San Francisco for pre-launch prep and the office launch early next morning…
Engineers at work, while I prep the in-line battery assembly
After getting a few hours of sleep in Gregg’s living room, we drove off to the launch site and got right to work…
Let’s go! Here are the shots from the balloon view:
Within 15 minutes we noticed that the balloon is in trouble – it was stuck right by the highway… went from monitor-mode into retrieval mode right away…
We regrouped and decided that we should do one more launch again, SOON.