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Balloon flights with simply a digital camera, like SABLE-3, can be accomplished for as little as several hundred dollars, but the success of BEAR-4 has others now excited to do what I've wanted to do for some time and future BEAR flights are being planned that will be much more expensive. Like a remote controlled payload package with pan/tilt cameras capable of transmitting live video back to the ground along with flight data to provide a display (similar to what's seen HERE), to allow the payload to be flown during descent, and an auto-pilot to fly the payload home automatically by itself if we decide not to do that, or can't do that, ourselves.


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