From Wikipedia: The Kármán line lies at an altitude of 100 kilometres (62 mi) above the Earth's sea level, and is commonly used to define the boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space.
That's not space. Though it's an amazing feat nonetheless.
But I'd say that 121,000 is pretty amazing feet too...
Corrected.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth#Pressure_an...
Technologically impressive, but a weapon...
My project reached 32km: http://blog.jgc.org/2011/04/gaga-1-flight.html
This is pretty awesome.
would love to know what happened
Perhaps the GPS devices were disabled by speed, or altitude, and didn't have time to reset while at apogee to get the reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Restr...
First, GPS satellites are in orbit ~20,000 km altitude, so this rocket is nowhere near too high. The beamwidth is pretty wide (it covers the entire half of the Earth, after all). Some quick research shows that below 3–4000km, there isn't much difference. http://emergentspace.com/gps_pubs/SSVP-v1.07-2column.pdf.
You should be able to get exact orbits (to the centimeter!) from the NGS (http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/orbits/), if you're interested.
Second, its the receiver that sees the GPS satellites, not the other way around. The satellites transmit, the receiver does not.
Awesome job
What they looked like before I started hacking them: http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11630618
Short video of the first full glitch free run of the lights under my control: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9SOI9EnjTg
http://www.tcmaker.org/wiki/doku.php?id=projects:led_signboa...
Edit: June launch attempt http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K... http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/contentgfx/Rocket-2011_... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_suborbitals