\n The school in D\u00fclmen, located in Westphalia between Dortmund and Munster, had launched the weather balloon on Friday, August 18, as part of a scientific experiment.\n<\/p>\n
\n Equipped with a camera and recording equipment, the balloon was designed to collapse at 34km above the ground, with expectations of recovery not far from the school.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, the balloon did not collapse as intended and was caught by high winds, ultimately collapsing at 36km while over Ipswich.\n<\/p>\n
\n Its GPS tracker indicated it was in the River Orwell near the bridge on Saturday, prompting teachers Thomas Reher and Steffan Droste to set off for its recovery.\n<\/p>\n
\n Upon arriving in the UK on Sunday morning, they discovered that the balloon had drifted and was now caught by the pier next to the Ipswich sewage works.\n<\/p>\n
\n The teachers received updates about its location from their colleagues back in Germany.\n<\/p>\n
\n On Sunday, they faced challenges accessing the balloon until they met Peter Dyson from Fox’s Marina, who assisted them in reaching the balloon’s location.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr. Droste said: “Peter was extremely receptive and helped us without hesitation.”\n<\/p>\n
\n After a brief consultation, he took them to the pier in a freshly renovated fishing boat, where they were “overjoyed to sight and salvage the probe.”\n<\/p>\n
\n They returned to D\u00fclmen late that evening, where students eagerly awaited the cameras and data logger.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr. Droste added: “We are very proud and grateful that we received numerous data and beautiful images from the stratosphere through the salvage.”\n<\/p>\n
\n [From the Ipswich Star of August 28, 2023]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The school in D\u00fclmen, located in Westphalia between Dortmund and Munster, had launched the weather balloon on Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-379650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115105011036264599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}