RITCHIE-1 High Altitude Balloon Flight Time Lapse

The Rochester Institute of Technology Amateur Radio Club, K2GXT, designed, built, and launched a custom high altitude balloon payload named RITCHIE-1. It flew to 96,305 feet in a near perfect flight. The flight took place on Saturday May 7th, 2011 during the Imagine RIT Innovation and Creativity Festival. The flight lasted nearly 3 hours which demanded the use of the 5 second time-lapse mode on the GoPro HD camera. If HD video had been recorded we would not have captured the entire flight. During the descent the payload descended through a storm that produced hail (seen in the images) and was pushed up from 6,000 feet to 8,000 feet within the cloud according to the GPS data. Balloon burst occures at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=IVn8DUBFuSw#t=356s More information can be found at http://collegearc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=251:ritchie-1-high-altitude-balloon&catid=78:non-technical