Near Space Research high altitude balloon flight, June 16, 2010

Second test flight of the Near Space Research telemetry system, developed by Trevecca Nazarene University. An onboard camera captures the burst of the balloon over 90,000 feet above the earth's surface.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• near space
• balloon
• high altitude
• Trevecca

[AESOPPOSEA1]

Obviously a computer animated fake.

[nearspaceresearch]

@AESOPPOSEA1

If it were computer animated, the resolution would be much better. Since the "real thing" only costs a few hundred dollars per flight, computer animation would probably cost more too! Look at all of the other similar videos out there--none of them are fake.

[nearspaceresearch]

It isn't fake, but the wide angle lens on our camera does exaggerate the earth's curvature.

[gymkhanadog]

You managed to hit 90k? Wow! How big was the balloon? How much helium did you use? I have bad, bad ideas swimming around in my head for when I actually get to start experimenting with near space stuff. Aiming for 200k feet! 90k is my "entry" barrier to figure out if it's even doable.

[Darko2625]

Near space? This is SPACE if you ask me.

[Agauaellos]

Even if it's fake none of you is paying for his few hundred dollar mission.. No one's even forcing you to watch it. When NASA burns all your tax money and doesn't even tell you all they know you're happy.

[electronicdawg]

stop it your making me dizzy, and it is fake ! hes just spinning it like Google earth

[electronicdawg]

stop it your making me dizzy

[carbonrocket]

Very nice image of the balloon burst, I say after looking at lots of other experiments and the way the balloons burst and the shredding effect. Its a true image. Like said if someone would go to the trouble of makiking a CGI fake film it would be more cost effective to do this real life

[laxinitup62]

thats more like 300,000 feet



[poool1981]

fake fake fake fake

[AESOPPOSEA1]

This is something that belongs on PlayStation.