'Firefox One' Launch to Celebrate 100 Million Downloads (MozillaZine)
[Posted October 21, 2005 by ris]
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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