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Quality of video recordings from stratospheric balloons is poor due to motions of the balloons gondolas. This chapter presents new low-cost camera stabilization and control system (pointing mechanism) that is designated specifically to be used on the stratospheric balloons. The system design is described and the results of test-flight of the prototype of the proposed system are shown.
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The described project was conducted as a part of the REXUS/BEXUS programme for the university students. This programme is realised by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB) in which the Swedish share of the payload has been made available to students from other European countries through collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA). Project was partially financed by the ESA PECS project no. 98089 and by Warsaw University of Technology scientific grants for students. The authors would like to thank engineers and scientists working in the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology and Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences for their help and support. The authors would also like to acknowledge kosmonauta.net for active promotion of SCOPE project in Poland.
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Jaworski, J., Bobrowski, K., Boruc, Ł., Gedroyć, K., Macioszek, K., Rybus, T. (2013). New Low-Cost Video Camera Pointing Mechanism for Stratospheric Balloons: Design and Operational Tests. In: Sąsiadek, J. (eds) Aerospace Robotics. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34020-8_8
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