We were able to receive live video via Amateur TV up to 30,000 feet before the 2441.5 MHz signal became to weak to copy from the launch site. The capsule's camera continued to record video on to its memory card until it shutdown at 70,000 feet. We aren't sure exactly why the camera shut off. The battery was supposed to last ~4-5 hours, however the extreme -40F and lower temps between 30,000-60,000 feet and the near-vacuum above 60,000 feet may have cause some thermal extremes for the batteries which shortened their lives.
The craft did achieve an altitude of 111,814 feet as calculated by GPS and transmitted live over the APRS system, but we do not have any imaging above 70,000 feet. Next year we will work out the kinks and hopefully get imaging from higher and maybe even have a live ATV video stream online from the capsule!
Levi, K6LCM
P.S. Thanks to Steve, KD6VEX as well for his work on the local APRS system. Without this vital digital amateur radio system we would not be able to track and recover our payloads.