Organized by Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Balloon Fest brings secondary school students together to launch their payloads on tethered balloons with a maximum altitude of 1000 feet.
At the 2012 Balloon Fest, Logan Hill and student Kevin Zack tested the barometric pressure and GPS payload.
The balloon payload; on its way up to 1000 feet to test the barometric pressure and temperature sensors.
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Helium filled weather balloons all with scientific payloads in their gondolas.
Payload installed into the balloon gondola. The payload has a GPS, Temperature, and a Barometric sensor. The data is stored on an SD card.
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The GPS data from the balloon launch in Google Earth.
GPS altitude vs. Barometric altitude.