User blog comment:Riley Heligo/Seriously EA?/@comment-4800118-20120217151426/@comment-4800118-20120217170120

True, but this is just a promotional stunt. If they wanted to realy get the thing into space, it needs to get up to around 80km. My guess is they will just send it up to about 22 km, just enough that the sky goes black, so it gets a nice picture.