As soon as I saw the picture of it on their linked sites (see rangibaby's comment) I was like "that looks like every homemade space camera I've seen on youtube.

As soon as I saw the picture of it on their linked sites (see rangibaby's comment) I was like "that looks like every homemade space camera I've seen on youtube." May have been a "weather monitoring device" rather than a homemade space camera, same difference. Definitely human-made (polystyrene, circuit boards, string.)