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OLHZN-22: Launching a weather balloon during the 2024 total solar eclipse

By |2024-04-09T12:25:18-04:00April 8th, 2024|Categories: Our Flights, Weather Balloons|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

OLHZN-22 is the twenty second high altitude weather balloon flight planned for Overlook Horizon High Altitude Balloons. This flight is scheduled to launch on April 8, 2024 during the total solar eclipse in Canandaigua, NY. This flight will be our second eclipse flight, and the third flight attempt for our new live video transmission system to obtain and view live video from an on-board camera while the balloon and payload is in-flight.

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The Final Countdown: OLHZN-22 “UmbraQuest” Aims for the Stratosphere During the Solar Eclipse

By |2024-04-04T12:14:47-04:00April 4th, 2024|Categories: Our Flights, Weather Balloons|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

At its core, "UmbraQuest" seeks to unravel the mysteries of the eclipse's impact on our planet's atmosphere. The phenomenon of a total solar eclipse provides a rare laboratory for scientists worldwide, offering insights into solar-terrestrial relations, atmospheric dynamics, and even insights into solar physics. Our mission contributes to this global puzzle, aiming to shed light on the transient effects of solar occlusion on atmospheric conditions.

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Overlook Horizon to Launch “UmbraQuest” Weather Balloon Flight During 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

By |2024-04-03T19:52:15-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: Our Flights, Weather Balloons|

CANANDAIGUA NY – 03 APRIL 2024 – Overlook Horizon Inc., a leading organization in atmospheric research and educational outreach, is excited to announce the launch of its latest high altitude weather balloon mission, OLHZN-22 "UmbraQuest". Scheduled for Monday, April 8, 2024, this mission is set to coincide with the rare astronomical event of a [...]

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OLHZN-21: NHL Vegas Golden Knights Highest Puck Drop Record

By |2021-03-12T17:26:20-05:00September 23rd, 2019|Categories: Our Flights, Weather Balloons|Tags: , , , , , , , |

OLHZN-21 was the twenty-first high altitude weather balloon flight for Overlook Horizon High Altitude Balloons. This flight launched on September 23, 2019 at 2:51:40pm PDT (21:51:40 UTC) from Las Vegas, NV. This flight was a top-secret collaboration project with the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights to honor the “opening knight” of their third hockey season on October 2, 2019 against the San Jose Sharks and set a new VGK Worldwide Record for the Highest Altitude Puck Drop.

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OLHZN-20: Launching a YouTube Silver Play Button for Just Dustin

By |2021-03-12T17:26:11-05:00September 5th, 2019|Categories: Our Flights, Weather Balloons|Tags: , , , , , , , |

OLHZN-20 was the twentieth high altitude weather balloon flight for Overlook Horizon High Altitude Balloons. This flight launched on September 5, 2019 at 7:35:06am EDT (11:35:06 UTC) from Canandaigua, NY. This flight was a top-secret collaboration project with popular YouTuber, Just Dustin. Dustin contacted us in August 2019 and originally wanted to fly his YouTube Gold Play Button to the edge of space and back and film it. We discussed numerous possibilities and setups and ultimately decided, due to the massive weight of the Gold Play Button, it would be best to operate a flight with his Silver Play Button instead.

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OLHZN-19: Improving live video from a high altitude weather balloon

By |2021-03-12T17:29:45-05:00August 2nd, 2019|Categories: Our Flights, Weather Balloons|Tags: , , , , , |

OLHZN-19 was the nineteenth high altitude weather balloon flight for Overlook Horizon High Altitude Balloons.  This flight is launched on August 2, 2019 at 8:30am EDT (12:30UTC) from Farmington, NY. This flight was the second flight attempt for our new live video transmission system to obtain and view live video from an on-board camera [...]

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OLHZN-18: Receiving live video from a high altitude weather balloon

By |2021-03-12T17:11:46-05:00July 25th, 2019|Categories: Our Flights, Weather Balloons|Tags: , , , , , , |

OLHZN-18 was the eighteenth high altitude weather balloon flight for Overlook Horizon High Altitude Balloons. This flight launched on July 25, 2019 at 10:00am EDT from the Canandaigua, NY area. This flight debuted our new live video transmission system to obtain and view live video from an on-board camera while the balloon and payload was in-flight. This new video was also featured in our live launch-day broadcasts so viewers could see and follow along with the flight live.

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OLHZN-17: Testing Arduino LoRa radio cutdown for weather balloons

By |2021-03-12T17:22:46-05:00June 24th, 2019|Categories: Our Flights, Weather Balloons|Tags: , , , , , , |

OLHZN-17 was the seventeenth high altitude weather balloon flight for Overlook Horizon High Altitude Balloons. This flight launched on June 24, 2019 at 11:37:41am EDT (15:37:41 UTC) from the Rochester, NY area. This flight debuted our new recovery cut-down system that was placed on board the flight and made ready and available to automatically cut the payload free if it became entangled in an obstruction (i.e. a really tall tree) upon landing.

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OLHZN-16: Launching a sunrise weather balloon over the NY Finger Lakes

By |2020-03-27T11:13:47-04:00September 5th, 2018|Categories: Our Flights, Weather Balloons|Tags: , , , , |

OLHZN-16 was the sixteenth high altitude weather balloon flight for Overlook Horizon High Altitude Balloons. This flight launched on September 5, 2018 at 4:48am EDT (08:48 UTC) during the early morning sunrise hours over the Rochester, NY area. This flight again used three Lightdow LD4000 Cameras to capture the early morning footage, including one upwards facing camera recording the balloon footage.

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OLHZN-15: Flying the Space Lobster on a weather balloon

By |2020-03-27T11:16:23-04:00August 6th, 2018|Categories: Our Flights, Weather Balloons|Tags: , , , , , , |

OLHZN-15 was the fifteenth high altitude weather balloon flight for Overlook Horizon High Altitude Balloons. This flight launched on August 6, 2018 at 8:00am EDT (12:00 UTC) and featured our brave Space Lobster on-board as our second on-board mascot. Previously, our Space Referee launched on OLHZN-4. This flight used three Lightdow LD4000 Cameras to document the journey to the edge of space and back which will give us one view with the Space Lobster clearly in view, another view without the Space Lobster and a third view of the balloon.

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