Exciting launches today! There were a bunch of bugs in the first flight that we addressed, and the second flight data is good acceleration-wise but the altitude sensor is reporting a lot of noise. I'm not sure if its the problem with the sensor driver or if I just need to switch sensors, right now it is the MS5607 (in the past I've used a BMP280). Here is the second flight!
Mass: 648g (whew, close to that 650g limit definitely need to remove mass)
Flight time: 48.5s
Altitude: 845ft (no active control, just testing the sensors)
Video:
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While there was no damage on the first launch, a ton of things broke on the second launch, including one expensive servo
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I have plans to fix all of these though and its good that I can address them early!
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The base of the payload bay broke, I will add some small strakes to fix this
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The battery mount broke, I can just make the walls thicker
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The servo broke, this is the most difficult one to fix. My plan is to build a two-part case that encloses the servo, and then that screws into the transition instead of using the fragile servo mounting holes. I'll redesign the transition for this.
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This didn't break its just interesting that it turned yellow without the fin can below it turning yellow. Overall I think the white looks good after a launch (better than the black and blue rockets) so I think I'll stick with it! Going to call it Ghost
I've attached the flight data below!