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
I have plans to fix all of these though and its good that I can address them early!
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
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.
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!