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EARTHDATE: September 27, 2009

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PICTURES OF THE WEEK: SPACE PHOTOS ON THE CHEAP

by Hazed

It's amazing what you can do on a budget. John Gordon has made his own satellite and sent it into space to take pictures which he's published on the web here.

He used a hobby kit to design a computer-controlled camera, put it inside a protective box, attached it to a weather balloon and let it fly. It travelled 3 times higher than a commercial jet, and 1/7 of the way to the ISS. The kit he used came from a company called Adafruit Industries. There are pictures of the kit in various stages of assembly here, plus a video here.


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