Maestro Agnew | Near-Space Sunset Video #1: GoPro Hero 3+ Weather Balloon Launch @nazukeoya | Uploaded July 2014 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
This is the sunset from near-space at 100,000+ ft. A group of us launched a capsule with 3 GoPro cameras into the stratosphere from Itasca, TX using a weather balloon.
The crazy thing is that according to what we read online, the space capsule was only supposed to land at maximum 75 miles from the launch location and 3 hours later...but instead we woke up 14 hours later to the last GPS location showing that it landing 550 miles away in the US military's White Sands Missile Range. So I was on the phone with military bases in the area and when they couldn't find it I hit the road with a buddy of mine and drove the 550 miles that day to New Mexico, hiked 2 miles into the desert, and brought home our space capsule.
GPS data from Garmin Forerunner 910XT running watch that we put in the space capsule: connect.garmin.com/activity/537398688
Launch GPS: 32.1526, -97.18747 (Itasca, TX)
Launch Date: 7/6/2014
Launch Time: 6:40:29 PM
Landing GPS: 32.0881, -105.13747
Landing Date: 7/7/2014
Landing Time: 8:51:36 AM
This is the sunset from near-space at 100,000+ ft. A group of us launched a capsule with 3 GoPro cameras into the stratosphere from Itasca, TX using a weather balloon.
The crazy thing is that according to what we read online, the space capsule was only supposed to land at maximum 75 miles from the launch location and 3 hours later...but instead we woke up 14 hours later to the last GPS location showing that it landing 550 miles away in the US military's White Sands Missile Range. So I was on the phone with military bases in the area and when they couldn't find it I hit the road with a buddy of mine and drove the 550 miles that day to New Mexico, hiked 2 miles into the desert, and brought home our space capsule.
GPS data from Garmin Forerunner 910XT running watch that we put in the space capsule: connect.garmin.com/activity/537398688
Launch GPS: 32.1526, -97.18747 (Itasca, TX)
Launch Date: 7/6/2014
Launch Time: 6:40:29 PM
Landing GPS: 32.0881, -105.13747
Landing Date: 7/7/2014
Landing Time: 8:51:36 AM
