Weather Balloon from Germany landed in Poland. We need help.
Update7: u/gumofilcokarate was able to rescue all space travelers, many thanks (Picture in the comments).
Update6: And we have the first video: inhive Space Event - YouTube
Update5: u/gumofilcokarate will go on a second trip and try to rescue the figurines on Sunday, finger crossed he is able to find it :)
Update4: This is the first picture:
Update3: We have the first photo, check it out in the comments!
Update2: Please give us a couple of more days u/gumofilcokarate and myself currently arraging the logisitcs, we will share the video and data as soon as possible. u/gumofilcokarate also not wanted anything is return, which is of course not acceptable. We will make sure that he and the family receive some space mission t-shirts (my boss posted the logo in the comments) and a good care package.
In case you have any additional questions or feedback, feel free to write them I try to get eveything answered. And most important please still go into the comments, I think the post of u/gumofilcokarate still deserves a couple of more upvotes :)
Update1: u/gumofilcokarate is the MVP, he went on a hike and rescued the space vehicle :) It would be much appreciated if you go in the comments and give that guy all the karma he deserves.
As soon we have the data we will share the video and flight data with all of you! Many thanks for all the comments and the help, this was really cool :)
Dear polish reddit community,
I have a strange question and hope this is the right subreddit to use, we are a small company from Germany and did a company event were we sent a weatherballon into space with some belonging from the kids employees (so that the kids actually have something that was in space, e.g. some lego figures).
The plan was actually that the weatherballon travels like 100km we and we will pick it up in somehwere in Germany. What should I say? It actually traveled over 1000km and landed in Poland :)
So currently we are trying to find some locals that could help us to rescue the ballon and maybe sent us the electrics (camera, GPS tracker and data logger) and most improtant the kids stuff back. We would of course pay for the work and the shipping cost!
This is the vehicle that was hanging below the weather balloon and is now in Poland:
This is the area where it landed in Poland:
We of course have a much more specific GPS location which we could share.
Many thanks for taking the time to read the post, if you also have some ideas feel free to share :)
Thanks,
Steffen