Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:32:33 +0200https://english.radio.cz/czechs-launch-first-geocaches-stratosphere-8541537© 2026 Radio Prague International This past weekend, a group of Czech scientist and enthusiasts took the popular geocaching hobby – where people look for hidden containers with the help of GPS devices – to new heights, launching caches with GPS trackers into the stratosphere. A carrier gondola, attached to a stratospheric balloon, released the Stratocaches, also called maple pods because of their shape, from 30,000 meters above ground, dispersing them at random. The pods were meant to transmit their GPS locations upon landing back on earth, for geocachers to locate them. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/stratocaching2.jpg?timestamp=1591148668 https://english.radio.cz/czechs-launch-first-geocaches-stratosphere-8541537 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9