Bryan Chan from Stanford University and his four friends launched a space balloon from Arizona, USA. The idea was to collect some data and video footage for their thesis. To achieve this, GoPro and a smartphone with GPS capabilities.
The balloon blows up once it reached around 100,000 feet. The plan was for the destroyed balloon to land in an area where there is a cell coverage. However, because the cell service coverage map they had was inaccurate, so they didn't get anything from the phone. They've lost the remains of the space balloon.
2 years later...
Bryan and his team thought they won't see their unit again, but fate has it that they were to reunite.
A woman who works at a cell phone company had found this phone while she was on a hike. She took the phone back and checked the SIM card to figure out who that phone belongs to. Bryan then exported the data and found this:
The video shows the highlights of the entire trip of the balloon. The pictures taken as it goes higher and higher are so beautiful.
Bryan Chan from Stanford University and his four friends launched a space balloon from Arizona, USA. The idea was to collect some data and video footage for their thesis. To achieve this, GoPro and a smartphone with GPS capabilities.
Source: YouTube
The balloon blows up once it reached around 100,000 feet. The plan was for the destroyed balloon to land in an area where there is a cell coverage. However, because the cell service coverage map they had was inaccurate, so they didn't get anything from the phone. They've lost the remains of the space balloon.
2 years later...
Bryan and his team thought they won't see their unit again, but fate has it that they were to reunite.
A woman who works at a cell phone company had found this phone while she was on a hike. She took the phone back and checked the SIM card to figure out who that phone belongs to. Bryan then exported the data and found this:
The video shows the highlights of the entire trip of the balloon. The pictures taken as it goes higher and higher are so beautiful.
Source: YouTube