DIY Space Photography

Four Spanish teenagers sent a camera-operated weather balloon into the stratosphere. The boys built the electronic sensor components from scratch. Gerard Marull Paretas, Sergi Saballs Vila, Marta Gasull Morcillo and Jaume Puigmiquel Casamort attached a £56 camera to a heavy duty £43 latex balloon, and sent their science project 20-miles above the Earth. Team leader Gerard Marull, 18, said, "We were overwhelmed at our results, especially the photographs, to send our handmade craft to the edge of space is incredible."

Next time I'm on an airplane

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll be sure to be thinking of people putting random shit in the air.

Google or no Google?

[DavidJSimpson]

From the article:

"Proving that you don't need Google's billions ... [they] followed the progress of their balloon using high tech sensors communicating with Google Earth."

Maybe they did need Google's billions.

Re:Next time I'm on an airplane

[Anonymous Coward]

Next time you're on an airplane we'll be sure to ground all birds worldwide so you're not worried about 'random shit in the air'.

It takes saballs...

[Anonymous Coward]

...to pull off a stunt like that.

Congratulations

[symes]

I think this is fantastic and that the guys who achieved this deserve all the (positive) attention they are getting. I wish more people thier age could get into sending stuff into space... actuially forget that last bit, we'll just end up with empty cans of lager and unsuspecting victims hanging in the sky over the UK.

Re:BTDT?

[camperdave]

BTDT?

Twiki? Is that you?

Re:Possible Malware on TFA?

[Anonymous Coward]

No worries, most people don't RTFA

Quite a balloon...

[Trailer Trash]

...to lift a 56 pound camera.

Re:SABLE-3 did it on August 11/07 - 117,597ft/ 358

[Anonymous Coward]

An small nitpick... The captions are not in Catalonian. Are in Catalan.

Re:Next time I'm on an airplane

[Xest]

Dear FAA,
In 24 hours I intend to release balloons into the air randomly around Chicago O'Hare. Please alert all pilots so that they can go and land elsewhere.

Regards,

Real life troll.

Seriously though, I assume as you say the regulations in place govern also where you can and can't release things into the air? Presumably you can't just launch something wherever you feel like even if you do give notice and presumably the FAA can reject requests?