{"id":36963,"date":"2011-07-10T15:47:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T15:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/student-space-balloon\/"},"modified":"2011-07-10T15:47:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T15:47:53","slug":"student-space-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/student-space-balloon.php","title":{"rendered":"Student Space Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomsastroblog.com\/archives\/10570\"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love these balloon projects.<\/p>\n<p>I will let one of the participants introduce the video, Tobias Lohf:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The challenge was to survive ambient air pressures as low as 1\/100th of an atmosphere, temperatures as low as -60\u00b0C and finally to locate and recover the Cam.<\/p>\n<p>The solution: We took a weather balloon and filled it with helium. Then we added a polystyrene box at it. A HD-Cam, GPS Tracker and a heating pad was on board. All the construction had a total weight of about 1kg.<\/p>\n<p>It traveled approximately 80 miles before the balloon burst and the payload fell to Earth by parachute.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Very nicely done!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bQ0Ha2p8GjI\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to view the embedded video. I love these balloon projects. I will let one of the participants introduce the video, Tobias Lohf: The challenge was to survive ambient air pressures as low as 1\/100th of an atmosphere, temperatures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/student-space-balloon.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}