Flight of Icarus - Ivory Global

This blog describes the flight of a cell phone attached to some helium balloons.

It left Chicago at 7:30PM on Wednesday June 3rd, and arrived in Nova Scotia about 24 hours later. It appears to have not had a good signal for most of the flight, but was able to report it's path and coordinates once it landed.

Currently it is in some trees, likely killed during a rain shower the morning of Saturday 6/6/2009. It might dry off or wake up, but it seems a bit unlikely.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

T7.24 coord 43.70504 -65.28747 alt 127.9ft spd0.0mph hdg 0.0 tmp 45f 3.976v dbm -77.93 snr 13666

7 comments:

UnknownJune 6, 2009 at 8:56 AM
The ground?
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Chris FJune 6, 2009 at 10:17 AM
sunrise was 5:30 AM... picture was 5:05/5:06... dunno.

I am concerned that it got rained on. It's been almost 5 hours and it "forgot" to spit a picture at 7:24?? Hmm.
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Chris FJune 6, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Ervin Olsen, a geocacher in the area, will be around there tomorrow and will check it out.
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Chris FJune 6, 2009 at 10:21 AM
You know, it "could have" blown free. Wishful thinking.
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billJune 6, 2009 at 11:48 AM
may try to team up with ervin to find this as it is very remote
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Chris FJune 6, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Cool, thanks!
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FutuneralJune 6, 2009 at 4:07 PM
I think that is how the sun looks like when you get too close to it ;)
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