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'Firefox One' Launch to Celebrate 100 Million Downloads (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine covers the latest Firefox publicity stunt. "polvi wrote in to tell us that a weather balloon satellite will be launched to celebrate 100 million downloads of Mozilla Firefox. The Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium balloon satellite, dubbed Firefox One, is expected to reach a height of 100,000 feet (about 30 kilometres or 19 miles) when it's launched from the Memorial Union Quad at the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis, Oregon (north-western United States) at noon on Saturday. It will carry a payload of a large Firefox banner, a Firefox CD-ROM and a camera to "take photos of Firefox at the edge of space"."
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'Firefox One' Launch to Celebrate 100 Million Downloads (MozillaZine)

Posted Oct 24, 2005 0:00 UTC (Mon) by marineam (subscriber, #28387) [Link]

The event went well, here is a little write up on what happened and some photos.

'Firefox One' Launch to Celebrate 100 Million Downloads (MozillaZine)

Posted Oct 24, 2005 17:55 UTC (Mon) by rogerd (guest, #4170) [Link]

Where are the pictures of "Firefox at the edge of space"?

'Firefox One' Launch to Celebrate 100 Million Downloads (MozillaZine)

Posted Oct 25, 2005 1:52 UTC (Tue) by marineam (subscriber, #28387) [Link]

No one has found the camera yet :-(

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