by mattadata » Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:38 am
I have a Motorola i290. I plan on attaching this to a weather balloon and letting it ascend to about 100,000 feet, and then safely return via parachute.
I not only want to be able to recover it using AccuTracking, but also want AccuTracking to log the maximum altitude the balloon reaches.
I have come across two other attempts of this on the web using similar phones, and both times it looks like the phone's GPS only reported a maximum altitude just shy of 20,000 feet.
Is this a hardware/software limitation of the GPS in the phone?
I have a Motorola i290. I plan on attaching this to a weather balloon and letting it ascend to about 100,000 feet, and then safely return via parachute.
I not only want to be able to recover it using AccuTracking, but also want AccuTracking to log the maximum altitude the balloon reaches.
I have come across two other attempts of this on the web using similar phones, and both times it looks like the phone's GPS only reported a maximum altitude just shy of 20,000 feet.
Is this a hardware/software limitation of the GPS in the phone?