High Altitude Balloon. Burst, Descent and Landing. Filmed with Kodak Zi6

I launched a high altitude balloon on may 5th 2010. It had a photo camera and a video camera on board. The mission was called SammyOne.

The balloon went up to 108,000 feet and took over 1000 pictures and 3 hours of video. This clip shows the burst of the balloon, the descent and the final landing. SammyOne was launched in the Netherlands and landed in Germany. We recovered the balloon about one hour after the landing. All equipment was still working fine!

I used the Kodak Zi6 video cam for this and replaced the batteries with Lithium ones. It came back in one piece and is still functioning fine.

I kept a blog for the mission which can be read here: http://www.roelkroes.com

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[niflap]

How long did the 20 mile descent last?

[RoelKroes]

@niflap It took 59 minutes.

[timone1002]

@RoelKroes how long was it in free fall for untill the parachute opened? and do you know at what height? or did the chute open right after the baloon popped?

[RoelKroes]

@timone1002 The parachute opened immediately after the balloon popped triggered by gravity at 108,000 feet. See my website for more details.

[lazydayhohum]

in frame at 1:09 minutes there is some sort of light flashing by ????

[RoelKroes]

@lazydayhohum That is the moon.

[Axmedkoole]

3:53 jet stream. 

[laxinitup62]

where did you buy the high altitude balloon ?

[niflap]

@RoelKroes So average rate of descent was a little bit over 20mph.

[niflap]

:57) Interesting how the pop is still audible-if just barely @ the top of the atmosphere.

[sleepingeye]

@zannteo

or if it collides with an airplane

[ROBiRhymez]

@lazydayhohum yooo ufo 1:09

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