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2012-01-09

Aug 2010 Popular Mechanics cover article:

Space Dive – “The race to survive the worlds highest jump”

 

Felix Baumgartner & Red Bull team up to push the limits of human endurance.

 

Baumgartner’s mission called Red Bull Stratos seeks to extend the “safety zone” of human atmospheric bailout last set in 1960 by Joe Kittinger. This limit defines the uppermost altitude a human being can safely jump from.
The Highest Dive – Popular Mechanics – August 2010

 

2012-01-09

Red Bull Stratos Press Release:

RED BULL STRATOS TEAM PROVIDES FIRST LOOK AT CAMERA SYSTEMS THAT WILL RECORD AND BROADCAST FELIX BAUMGARTNER’S MISSION TO THE WORLD
Team faces immense challenges to provide real-time images that will advance science and thrill public.

Lancaster, Calif. – August 25, 2010 – Today the Red Bull Stratos mission team provided a first look at the
custom camera systems that will record and broadcast Felix Baumgartner’s stratospheric mission in real time and high definition. , reveal that capturing a potentially supersonic freefall from the

The details, announced at capsule manufacturing facility Sage Cheshire Aerospace, reveal that capturing a potentially supersonic freefall from the may be one of the most complex elements of the Red Bull Stratos mission. But with in-flight cameras mounted on both the capsule and Baumgartner’s space suit , the unique setup holds potential to provide an almost first-hand perspective of what it’s like to bail out in near space and freefall 23 miles above Earth.

When current record-holder USAF Col. (Ret.) Joe Kittinger jumped from 102,800 feet (50 years ago this month), his team used spring-wound motion picture cameras warmed by hot-water bottles to document his freefall. Red Bull Stratos will use
high-definition video cameras and ultra-high-definition 4K digital cinematography cameras so powerful that the challenge will be keeping them cool in an environment where the air is too thin to wick away their prodigious heat.


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