one of the good things that worked during my last balloon launch was the transmission of images from the balloon using SSTV.

Due to the geography of my country, it’s very difficult to catch the balloon after it lands. so up until now I wasn’t able to recover the memory stick from the camera. so, it was great fun to finally see some pictures from up there.
it was especially important as the GPS broke down 5 minutes into the flight. but I was able to identify some landscape features and draw a rough map of its heading.
but the technology did start to show it age.
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