Firefox One : Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium Balloon Satellite

Have you heard of the launch of “Firefox One”, an Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium balloon satellite.

Mozilla Firefox browser is celebrating its 100 million downloads. And the event is being held at Memorial Union Quad on October 22nd at high-noon.

A post on Spread Firefox says

“The Oregon State Linux Users Group, Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium, and the OSU Open Source Lab teamed up to launch “Firefox One”, a balloon satellite capable of carrying a 14lb payload to 100,000ft in elevation. Our payload will be a large Firefox banner, CD, and camera to take photos of Firefox at the edge of space.

Tell your classmates, family, and anyone else you can think of to come and help do the launch! The event will be centered at the MU quad, so if you cannot make it physically, you can watch from the MU webcam.”

If you want to celebrate more, say cheese and smile as you take your photo with your monitor displaying the celebration page and then simply upload your photographs for all the see here!