The Phantom Excitedness (alternatively: Hopefully we won't be sued for these Star Wars references)

We're getting close to physically launching the project! Parts have been ordered, and the Daedalus Team can barely control themselves in apprehension for this awesome balloon. How awesome, you say? Well, on a scale from 1 to AWESOME, it's sitting at approximately Indiana Jones status right now. (give or take 5 points, of course.)

Return of the Daedi

We're back, with a sponsor!!! The only way we can express our happiness is through nonsensical punctuation, since pure text simply won't cut it.

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The PocketFinder

^ This is basically how we feel right now. While researching the parts needed for this ambitious project, we knew we had to include a GPS tracker to find the payload. Many of the GPS systems we researched were bulky, power-hungry, and expensive. Luckily, we found one amazing product and company that suit our needs perfectly. The PocketFinder is a tiny little device that will update web and mobile apps in real time with its coordinates, distance, speed, altitude, and more! PocketFinder is graciously letting us use one of their devices in our project, and we recommend this useful product to anyone doing similar projects.
http://www.pocketfinder.com/how-it-works/
More posts coming soon!

The Empire (doesn't) Strike Back

The budget spreadsheet has been completed, for the time being. Although the total estimate is more than what we had originally anticipated, the project can still continue smoothly without too much worry. Hopefully we can find some generous sponsors to offset the cost! The Project team is, well, pumped, to say the least. We are all extremely excited that we can actually bring this idea to fruition, and be able to see space, not just from pictures from some satellite or lowly Hubble space telescope (amateurs). but from our own personal space-camera apparatus, with picture quality that will blow those other government-sponsored projects out of the water. However, there is no water in space, so we guess that they will be blown out of......the cosmos? Yeah, that sounds much cooler.

We're hoping to see images similar to this one from the project

A New Hope

Space is cool! I always wanted to see space, but it's pretty tough when I don't have an extra $200,000 laying around. I wish there was some way to extend my eyes in order to see out of the blue-tinted sky above us.....

I'VE GOT IT!!

I will send a portable eye into space using a balloon and a parachute.

Hopefully, we'll be gathering images like this one.

Impossible, you say? Nay, skeptical fellow, not impossible. In fact, it's the goal of the Project Daedalus team: to fly a camera into space in order to photograph our planet from above and see the curvature of the Earth. We here at Project Daedalus have always been fascinated with space and what exists past the Earth's atmosphere, and believe we have found a way to see what does exist beyond the vague blue ceiling above our heads. The budget spreadsheet has been started, and more updates will follow.