Hey guys and gals, so every month I seem to read an article or see a video online of a group of people that send a camera and certain item (whether it be a lego toy, or teddy bear etc.) into space by tying it to a weather ballon and letting it up climb several miles up in the sky. I'm sure you have all seen pics and vids of what I'm talking about.
So sitting at home bored I began looking into the project. And I might just be full of hot air but I think it would be something that would be perfect for us CA riders since we have the big wide open desert at our feet!
I was thinking we could put a toy figure on one of those little model dirt bikes (KTM 350exc preferably )
And we could fix some gopro's and contour cameras on the package to get some sweet pics and vids. And we could obviously slap some DBA stickers on the package!
From what I see, WEATHER and winds play HUGE factors as well as LOCATION. With everyone's knowledge on here, I think we could make this happen! First off, location. We would need a location that has accessible land for miles and miles around. So I'm thinking you BLM and open dez. guru's with tons of seat time in the mid. of nowhere could help in choosing a good point. Several of us have 4wd vehicles and plated bikes, so getting to the landing spot shouldn't be an issue. With the other big factor, Weather, we could hopefully get some helping hands from our one and only Weathergeek! Come on Bruce, now it's your time to shine! lol And then tracking the package is the other main factor. For this, I've seen people put old plain old simple Iphone's with their GPS tracker on (they actually seem to work well) or put other types of fancy GPS locaters on them.
I was thinking we could make a riding day out of it and have this as a cool event centered around the trip. It would be DBA's first SPACE RIDE RR!
Maybe I'm just thinking over my head but it's something I really want to do. So would anyone be interested?
So sitting at home bored I began looking into the project. And I might just be full of hot air but I think it would be something that would be perfect for us CA riders since we have the big wide open desert at our feet!
I was thinking we could put a toy figure on one of those little model dirt bikes (KTM 350exc preferably )
And we could fix some gopro's and contour cameras on the package to get some sweet pics and vids. And we could obviously slap some DBA stickers on the package!
From what I see, WEATHER and winds play HUGE factors as well as LOCATION. With everyone's knowledge on here, I think we could make this happen! First off, location. We would need a location that has accessible land for miles and miles around. So I'm thinking you BLM and open dez. guru's with tons of seat time in the mid. of nowhere could help in choosing a good point. Several of us have 4wd vehicles and plated bikes, so getting to the landing spot shouldn't be an issue. With the other big factor, Weather, we could hopefully get some helping hands from our one and only Weathergeek! Come on Bruce, now it's your time to shine! lol And then tracking the package is the other main factor. For this, I've seen people put old plain old simple Iphone's with their GPS tracker on (they actually seem to work well) or put other types of fancy GPS locaters on them.
I was thinking we could make a riding day out of it and have this as a cool event centered around the trip. It would be DBA's first SPACE RIDE RR!
Maybe I'm just thinking over my head but it's something I really want to do. So would anyone be interested?