{"id":939,"date":"2010-06-28T23:07:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T23:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=939"},"modified":"2022-03-04T18:02:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T18:02:13","slug":"team-space-ballon-launch-2-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/28\/team-space-ballon-launch-2-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Space Ballon Launch #2: Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-27.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-940\" width=\"563\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-27.png 750w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-27-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This past weekend\u00a0my friends and I\u00a0launched a weather balloon into near-space, about 20 miles above ground \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/201006_Team-Space-Balloon-Launch-2-Success-HD.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The balloon also carried a custom-made foam box containing a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CHDK#Custom_firmware\">hacked<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/reviews\/specs\/Canon\/canon_sd400.asp\">camera&nbsp;<\/a>which took a picture every 15 seconds, and a GPS-enabled phone (to recover the package). The balloon was launched at 7:19am on Saturday morning, and about 3 hours later we recovered it from lake in the middle of a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=703+williamson+Rd,+manteca&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=28.334641,57.216797&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=703+Williamson+Rd,+Manteca,+San+Joaquin,+California+95337&amp;ll=37.772886,-121.300049&amp;spn=0.05509,0.111752&amp;z=13\">RV park<\/a>&nbsp;(Bill swam out to retrieve our payload while I was soliciting help from a motorboat-owner)&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday I watched&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/football\/2010\/jun\/27\/world-cup-2010-germany-england-live\">German destroy England, 4-1<\/a>. Reminded me of&nbsp;my Oktoberfest experience, since I watched it from an Irish bar, ordering beer at 8:00 in the morning \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well the weekend is over &#8211; back to work. Julia arrives in less than 3 weeks &#8211; YAY! Beautiful shot, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend\u00a0my friends and I\u00a0launched a weather balloon into near-space, about 20 miles above ground \ud83d\ude42 The balloon also carried a custom-made foam box containing a&nbsp;hacked&nbsp;camera&nbsp;which took a picture every 15 seconds, and a GPS-enabled phone (to recover the package). The balloon was launched at 7:19am on Saturday morning, and about 3 hours later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-27.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}