{"id":4230,"date":"2011-05-11T11:54:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T15:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4230"},"modified":"2011-06-01T08:58:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T12:58:33","slug":"clarkson-students-pull-of-their-own-near-space-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/05\/11\/clarkson-students-pull-of-their-own-near-space-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarkson students pull off their own (near) space launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4232\" title=\"spacephoto2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/05\/spacephoto2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/05\/spacephoto2.jpg 477w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/05\/spacephoto2-150x132.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/05\/spacephoto2-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/05\/spacephoto2-450x396.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Students at Clarkson University sent a weather balloon zipping up to around 80,000 feet last week, snapping some very cool pictures.\u00a0 The craft was eventually recovered in the Adirondacks.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the statement from Clarkson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week, Clarkson University&#8217;s K2CC Amateur Radio Club launched and recovered its first-ever near-space weather balloon.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that the balloon made it to an altitude of over 80,000 feet, where the homemade space capsule took photos of space as well as Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The recovery adventure took two days and involved a road trip, a short daytime hike, a nighttime drive on logging roads, a small plane rental and corresponding search-and-rescue flight, a hike after nightfall, and pushing through thick Boreal forest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blinkenlichten.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/08\/near-space-weather-balloon-recovery-adventure\/\">Read a blog about the project and see a lot more photographs here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at Clarkson University sent a weather balloon zipping up to around 80,000 feet last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4231,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions\/4231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}