Friday, April 19, 2024 | St. Lawrence County, NY
POTSDAM -- Clarkson Amateur Radio Club, or K2CC, recently launched and recovered a “near-space” weather balloon. Club members believe the balloon reached an altitude of over 80,000 feet, where a …
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POTSDAM -- Clarkson Amateur Radio Club, or K2CC, recently launched and recovered a “near-space” weather balloon.
Club members believe the balloon reached an altitude of over 80,000 feet, where a homemade “space capsule” took photos of space as well as some notable places on Earth.
Recovering the capsule took two days and involved a road trip, a short daytime hike, a nighttime drive on scary logging roads, a small plane rental and corresponding search-and-rescue flight, a hike after nightfall, crossing a stream using a beaver dam that they had to repair, and pushing through thick boreal forest.
Patrick F. Wilbur, a Clarkson graduate, has maintained a blog, with more about the project and the adventure, with photos, at blinkenlichten.org/blog/2011/05/08/near-space-weather-balloon-recovery-adventure/
