Project Aether is a program designed to inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, explorers, and dreamers. We collaborate with schools to teach students physics concepts, experimental research skills, and to demonstrate low-cost, accessible space exploration through high altitude balloon launches equipped with HD cameras.
Follow along as we launch HD cameras to the edge of space to image aurora. If you are a teacher, contact us for a free US flag that has "kissed the aurora" to display in your classroom.
After being launched from the University of Houston and traveling nearly to Austin TX, the unmodified off-the-shelf HD Hero camera captured this footage from the Project Aether balloon at 100,000 ft looking South over the Gulf of Mexico. The camera survived -75 F temperatures, wind speeds in excess of 150 mph, and the near vacuum environment at the edge of space.
