Recently scientists conducted an interesting experiment. They, using the Axis Q6034-E camera, which is produced by Axis Communication, having previously attached it to a balloon, raised it to a record height and shot high-quality pictures that depict our planet. This event took place in the north of Sweden. Scientists launched balloon from Esrange, the space center. During the flight, the ball was able to rise to a record height of thirty -five kilometers, at this height there is a border between the earth’s atmosphere and the space space. In addition to the camera from Axis Communication, many other technical devices and devices were used as a load, thanks to which more than twenty successful experiments and measurements were carried out. All this took place as part of a scientific program called Bexus.
One of the components of the experiment, was a check of the maximum height indicator at which the camera will retain its performance and adequacy of shooting. The aim of other experiments was to clarify the possibility of working of various expensive and accurate equipment in conditions of super -low temperatures, the range of which was from minus seventy -three to minus ninety degrees Celsius. It should be noted that the Axis Q6034-E camera passed all the tests successfully, even more. In addition to the beautiful pictures of the Earth, which the camera transferred to the testing center, it also transmitted information about the state of the parachute system and balloon. After conducting all the necessary studies, the ball returned to the ground.
Thanks to the Bexus program, scientists are launched into the stratosphere of the Earth every year two balloons “crammed” with various equipment, which is necessary to perform a number of research. All information received is used by the Esrange space center, Swedish Space Corporation, as well as students of higher educational institutions of Sweden. The balloon used has a useful volume of twelve cubic meters, while it can lift a load to a hundred kilograms into the stratosphere and is in the stratosphere for two to five hours. During the time of one flight, thanks to scientific equipment located on a ball, scientists are able to conduct about twenty important experiments.
The Bexus scientific program is financed by the Swedish National Cosmic Council and the German Space Center.
