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PARIS: Paper plane to 'near-space'
Rocketeer — Fri, 05/02/2010 - 2:54pm
British IT news website The Register is progressing with plans for the Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) programme --- to launch a paper plane from near-space altitudes with a high-flying balloon:
- El Reg space bureau firms up PARIS kit list -- The Register
The plane will be instrumented with a miniaturised GPS unit and small digital camera.
The work is supported by Robert Harrison, whose Icarus Project has already launched a number of payloads to high altitude.
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