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OLHZN-7: Flying a high altitude weather balloon at sunset

By |2020-03-28T16:02:41-04:00July 17th, 2017|Categories: Our Flights, Weather Balloons|Tags: , , , , , |

OLHZN-7 was the seventh high altitude weather balloon flight for Overlook Horizon High Altitude Balloons. This flight occurred launch on July 17, 2017 at 5:30:08pm ET (21:30:08 UTC). The focus of this flight was to have a short recovery distance and we were also looking for interesting wind patterns for this flight. Additionally, since our balloon facing camera failed early on OLHZN-6, we reused the main OLHZN-6 objective, which was to obtain video of the balloon burst event.

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OLHZN-6: Adding a camera facing up at our weather balloon

By |2020-03-28T16:05:42-04:00May 20th, 2017|Categories: Our Flights, Weather Balloons|Tags: , , , , , , , |

OLHZN-6 was the sixth high altitude weather balloon flight for Overlook Horizon High Altitude Balloons. This flight launched on May 20, 2017 at 1255pm ET (16:55 UTC) from Canandaigua Academy. This flight featured our first upward facing (balloon facing) camera that was intended to record the moment of the balloon burst in slow motion as well as the parachute performance during the descent phase.

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OLHZN-5: Extremely close airplane flyby past weather balloon

By |2021-03-12T17:26:27-05:00March 26th, 2017|Categories: Our Flights, Weather Balloons|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

OLHZN-5 was the fifth high altitude weather balloon flight for Overlook Horizon High Altitude Balloons. This flight launched on March 26, 2017 at exactly 12:25:27pm EDT (16:25:27 UTC) and featured some tech changes to our tracking apparatus to resolve our radio tracking issues that we experienced on OLHZN-3 and OLHZN-4. This flight debuted our newly designed custom circuit boards for better reliability and to eliminate possible problems on launch day.

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OLHZN-4: Celebrating the life of Butch Mousseaux via a weather balloon

By |2024-04-11T12:32:51-04:00August 20th, 2016|Categories: Our Flights, Weather Balloons|Tags: , , , , , , , |

OLHZN-4 was the fourth high altitude weather balloon flight for Overlook Horizon High Altitude Balloons. This flight featured our first onboard astronaut in front of one of the flight cameras. We named our astronaut and this flight “Butchy” in honor of our friend, Oliver “Butch” Mousseau who tragically passed away earlier this spring after a head injury he sustained while officiating.

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OLHZN-3: GoPro HD action cameras on a high altitude weather balloon

By |2024-04-11T12:28:53-04:00May 28th, 2016|Categories: Our Flights, Weather Balloons|Tags: , , , , |

OLHZN-3 was the third high altitude weather balloon flight for Overlook Horizon High Altitude Balloons. The launch date for this flight was Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 5:59:59pm EDT (21:59:59 UTC). The goal of the third flight was to further solidify recovery methods and obtain photos and videos above 80,000 ft. in altitude. We successfully achieved a maximum altitude of 98,492 ft. and have HD photos and videos of the entire flight!

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OLHZN-2: Finding our high altitude weather balloon payload after launch

By |2024-04-11T12:30:00-04:00April 27th, 2016|Categories: Our Flights, Weather Balloons|Tags: , , , , , |

OLHZN-2 was the second high altitude weather balloon flight for Overlook Horizon High Altitude Balloons that launched on May 7, 2016 at 11:56am EDT (15:56 UTC). The goal of the second flight was to solidify recovery methods and ensure sensor accuracy throughout the entire flight. This was the first flight that was successfully recovered!!!

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OLHZN-1: Flying a high altitude weather balloon for the first time

By |2024-04-11T12:33:34-04:00April 23rd, 2016|Categories: Our Flights, Weather Balloons|Tags: , , , , |

OLHZN-1 was the first high altitude weather balloon flight attempt for Overlook Horizon High Altitude Balloons that took place on Saturday, April 23, 2016. The goal of the first flight was to get comfortable with the launch and recovery methods and to test all our systems. Sadly, the payload itself was lost and not recovered.

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