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RE: The Global Space Balloon Challenge: California Institute of Technology's Flight to Near Space
Worked on a similar project with MAE students at UCSD in 2008. We used a rooted android phone with an extended antenna though.
Part of the payload was a dozen German cockroaches from Carolina Biologicals, and half of them survived the trip to the stratosphere, 50,000 feet of freefall, and a fairly rough chute landing near Mexicali.
None of them survived the recovery procedure, that involved boots ;)