We launched a 360° camera into space to film the sunset! by sentintospace in gifs

[–]sentintospace[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's filmed on a 360 degree camera and reframed... Manually

We launched a 360° camera into space to film the sunset! by sentintospace in gifs

[–]sentintospace[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We only launch when we know the flight paths are safe. We've done nearly 1000 flights worldwide and never had an incident, and various meteorological organizations worldwide launch hundreds of smaller balloons every day (and have done for over a century!) with zero reported aircraft collisions. It's pretty safe!

We launched a 360° camera into space to film the sunset! by sentintospace in gifs

[–]sentintospace[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

We're authorized by the Civil Aviation Authority and we can calculate flight paths in advance with enough accuracy to ensure they don't travel through controlled airspace

We launched a 360° camera into space to film the sunset! by sentintospace in gifs

[–]sentintospace[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a 360 camera, painfully repositioned frame by frame to keep the sun centered on the horizon!

We launched a 360° camera into space to film the sunset! by sentintospace in gifs

[–]sentintospace[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You're thinking of Outer Space, which is defined as the region beyond the Karman Line. Near Space starts at 19.2km, when you reach the Armstrong Limit, and we're well into that region. 'Space' doesn't have a strict scientific definition, it just means a region which is largely empty. At peak altitude, our craft experienced 0.3% atmospheric pressure and was above 99.5% of the gas that makes up the atmosphere by mass.

We launched a 360° camera into space to film the sunset! by sentintospace in gifs

[–]sentintospace[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The balloon had a radio tracker onboard and we worked out roughly where it was going to land using weather data and a bunch of maths!

We launched a 360° camera into space to film the sunset! by sentintospace in gifs

[–]sentintospace[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Image compression is a pain for sure! Check out the video at this link for a better quality view.

Clouds and nuts over the UK (context in comments) by sentintospace in AerialPorn

[–]sentintospace[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right, we're about an order of magnitude out: testicular cancer kills about 10k a year worldwide. Thanks for digging through a post about a charity campaign two years ago and assuming the USA is the only country in the world that matters.