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IPhone goes to space...
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AckAck
Charter Member 2015
As an aside, last year a friend of mine send up a balloon with a data package and camera on it, which went up and came most of the way back down before the camera separated from the package and the parachute. The camera was set up to take pictures ever 5 seconds or so. They found the data pack, but not the camera, which had no markings or identification on it at all. Two weeks later, they get a call from a farmer about 5 miles from where the data pack was, asking if they had lost a camera. He had found a camera in his field while baling and looked at the pictures. One of the pics it snapped at launch was of my friend's name tag, so he tracked him back to the university to return the camera and its photos.
I'm trying to calculate the odds of the camera separating and surviving the fall without a parachute far enough to separate itself from the package by 5 miles, still be functional, be able to be found by a farmer in the middle of a field while baling hay, and having a picture of my friend's name tag on it legible enough to trace back to him, and having the guy who found it actually do that.
Brian
I still cant believe that it was at the edge of space in all those winds and still came down in the same state. I would think with Earths rotation and all, it would be 2 states away or more.
On the balloon ride to space, yes, youre right. I was thinking that if one had a solid propellant motor, from 90K feet, you are right there on the door step, lol...
I wonder how high the White Knight II goes before dropping the Virgin Galactic craft?
AckAck
Charter Member 2015
However, maybe I'm confused as to the "accepted" boundary of space. I thought rutans stuff was trying to get to 100 km (100,000m, 62 miles...) but in this thread and at least one other recently, two people have mentioned 100,000 feet. Anyone know?
My recollection was that White Knight gets it up to 40,000 feet or so.
Brian
takes it to 50,000ft before dropping it.
