Toy Robot in Space! – HD balloon flight to 95000ft

Published January 5, 2013 | By Bman

The full space flight from the music video for ‘Edgar’ by Lucky Elephant. Watch the music video here! www.youtube.com Read about how we did it here! projectedgar.jamestrosh.com The robot and rig reached a height of over 95000 feet (around 30000 metres) above earth to film the blackness of space and the curvature of the earth, before the pressure popped the weather balloon and a parachute carried it back down to earth. We then found the robot and camera in a field 11 miles away using a mini GPS tracker. As seen in a nationwide TV commericial for GoPro, on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, CNN video report, Discovery Channel, screens accros the London Underground and more. The 2 and a half hour flight was filmed on a GoPro HD Hero camera. www.jamestrosh.com www.twitter.com
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