Exploding Weather Balloon
 

Check out the sequence of pictures here...
http://spaceweather.com/
"SPACE WEATHER BALLOON EXPLODES:"

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Here's ours from May, 2013. http://youtu.be/2h-ywrViBkg?t=55s

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3061's "wholly owned subsidiary" physics club does these launches to fly middle and elementary schooler's experiments to space on a stabilizing frame.

http://vimeo.com/42751486#t=1m32s is a cool frame-by frame of ours.

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Who knew so many FRC teams flew to the edge of space! This is a great off-season activity with programming, sensors, and just a lot of fun.

We are preparing for our 24th launch since 2007 -- http://dreams2space.wikispaces.com/

In 23 flights, we have never filmed the burst -- jealous! Want to get the students to fly a camera on a servo to look up once they are over 80,000 feet determined using a pressure sensor.

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A few of the TORC's former Members have done this, but the team did not have a part of it.

http://youtu.be/cksXkbNzvx8?list=UUy...GqVrtgHTGAs9RA

This was the first attempt back in 2003..

http://youtu.be/f05oP-nAsog?list=UUy...GqVrtgHTGAs9RA

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oink oink?

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ALL super impressive.

I love how even though it looks like you're beyond the atmosphere there is still enough gas to fill the parachute.