Part of my job is to work with sponsors (both athletes and production companies) to get them the video footage they need and us the material to promote our camera. Well, recently I was sent a video from a group of college students over in Spain that used our camera for a really neat project called the CHASAT II. The basic idea of their project is to send a big weather balloon 120,00 feet into the atmosphere to see the world from a POV perspective. They used 2 of our cameras for this project and came out with some pretty amazing footage. I wanted to share this with all of you. The video is a bit long (9 minutes from start to finish) but definitely worth watching. If you are impatient and want to just see the cameras in space, skip towards the last 3/4ths of the video.
My company goes to space (well kind of)
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Kenny
United States678 Posts
Part of my job is to work with sponsors (both athletes and production companies) to get them the video footage they need and us the material to promote our camera. Well, recently I was sent a video from a group of college students over in Spain that used our camera for a really neat project called the CHASAT II. The basic idea of their project is to send a big weather balloon 120,00 feet into the atmosphere to see the world from a POV perspective. They used 2 of our cameras for this project and came out with some pretty amazing footage. I wanted to share this with all of you. The video is a bit long (9 minutes from start to finish) but definitely worth watching. If you are impatient and want to just see the cameras in space, skip towards the last 3/4ths of the video. | ||
denzelz
United States604 Posts
Just wondering, what is your specific position at the company? | ||
VonLego
United States519 Posts
How much do those cameras cost? I'm assuming they were not able to retrieve any of the used resources? | ||
Typho0n
Canada276 Posts
great post | ||
zak
Korea (South)1009 Posts
btw how the hell did you retrieve the camera?! | ||
PrinceXizor
United States17713 Posts
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Never.Die
Japan189 Posts
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
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Kenny
United States678 Posts
On December 01 2010 09:52 denzelz wrote: That looks great! The lens began to ice up but the camera was still functioning. Must be a great recorder Just wondering, what is your specific position at the company? Seeing it is a small company still, I fill a few roles. However, my main role is working with sponsors and athletes. They refer to the role here as "Sponsorship Interaction Manager" Odd role, yes I know. Still an amazingly wonderful company to work for though. As for the footage, I don't actually know how they recovered the equipment quite yet. I'm in the process of trying to find that out. I will report back as soon as I know Cost of the camera they used is ~$300 a piece. | ||
Kenny
United States678 Posts
On December 01 2010 10:07 Sufficiency wrote: How did they transmit the video signal? The videos are stored on to a MicroSD card so they were not transmitted. That makes this video even more amazing because they had to somehow get those cameras back to retrieve the footage | ||
Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
On December 01 2010 10:09 Kenny wrote: The videos are stored on to a MicroSD card so they were not transmitted. That makes this video even more amazing because they had to somehow get those cameras back to retrieve the footage O_o!!!! wow | ||
KurtistheTurtle
United States1966 Posts
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Qikz
United Kingdom12021 Posts
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krndandaman
Mozambique16569 Posts
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nataziel
Australia1455 Posts
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Sazchu
Iceland489 Posts
Is there any other place than youtube where one can view this video? | ||
Chairman Ray
United States11903 Posts
Where did the camera end up btw? | ||
awu25
United States2003 Posts
On December 01 2010 10:48 nataziel wrote: When the weather balloon goes high enough, the pressure drops, and the balloon expands. Eventually the balloon expands too much and pops, at which point the camera would fall back down to earth. Then you use your GPS to track where the camera landed. I've seen this done with a handicam and an iPhone (as the GPS) before. i think this is the video you're talking about http://www.wendmag.com/blog/2010/10/19/man-and-his-kid-send-iphone-into-space-record-awesome-vid/ it provides subtitles of what is happening and also shows the camera falling back down to earth | ||
FragKrag
United States11538 Posts
thanks for posting this )))) | ||
mmp
United States2130 Posts
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