Image: Olympus Mountain

Description: In this picture: The Olympus mountain as seen by the capsule, during it's flight in the stratosphere at an altitude of 30000 meters. SlaRos, is the first amateur suborbital project in Greece. Is a multitasking hobby which allows me to explore earth’s sky without the need of enormous budgets and national agencies. It involves physics, extreme conditions, electronics & telecommunications engineering, software development, constructions, photography, high adventure, a lot of risks, problem solving and money spending. The project was honored twice by the NASA's Earth Science and took over 5000 euros and four years for the domestic development of the systems. Stratospheric balloon flights are done by the space agencies from 1950!

http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/09/high-altitude-balloon-burst.html

http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/07/high-altitude-balloon-flight-over-mount-olympus-greece.html

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Author: Konstantinos Tamateas
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