OSU students build and launch a sensor into space

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The high-altitude balloon carrying a radiation detector high-resolution camera sensors for temperature pressure and humidity and a GPS launches from OSU in Stillwater. Image: Dr. Jamey Jacob
The high-altitude balloon carrying a radiation detector, high-resolution camera, sensors for temperature, pressure and humidity, and a GPS launches from OSU in Stillwater. Image: Dr. Jamey Jacob
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Students from OSU's Radiation Physics Laboratory built and successfully launched a cosmic radiation detector this summer that reached the edge of outer space. Carried by a helium-filled balloon 12 inches in diameter, the detector flew for more than two hours and reached 104,000 feet in altitude. The device recorded radiation levels at the varying altitudes – information that will be used by NASA to develop instrumentation for space flight.


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