Carter12
New Member
Tldr: How would you do, fast rocket goes high makes it harder.
I want to make a L2 rocket that goes up to a high altitude and has a video feed that includes the ground so that I can calculate the altitude about ground and compare it to apogee data from barometer and altimeter. My goal is at least 15000ft with camera feed, barometer, CO2 concentration, tracker(s), and temperature. I am restricted by budget and L2, but if I can get a tube sponsor I can probably hit well over 20000ft
My original idea was a camera that would rotate around the rocket body using gravity, but since the rocket is in free fall at that point gravity would have no effect.
The biggest challenge to this is the rocket could very well approach velocities of close to mach 2, so an external camera is sketchy to me. Ideas that have popped into my head thusfar is a camera hole and hoping I get a good frame of the ground at some point. Maybe not at apogee but I should be able to match the time with altimeter data. The other option is attach a parachute, tracker, and noisy alarm to the camera and release it at apogee and hope to retrieve it.
Do you all have any ideas on how to achieve this? Feel free to ask more questions if you need or want more information.
I want to make a L2 rocket that goes up to a high altitude and has a video feed that includes the ground so that I can calculate the altitude about ground and compare it to apogee data from barometer and altimeter. My goal is at least 15000ft with camera feed, barometer, CO2 concentration, tracker(s), and temperature. I am restricted by budget and L2, but if I can get a tube sponsor I can probably hit well over 20000ft
My original idea was a camera that would rotate around the rocket body using gravity, but since the rocket is in free fall at that point gravity would have no effect.
The biggest challenge to this is the rocket could very well approach velocities of close to mach 2, so an external camera is sketchy to me. Ideas that have popped into my head thusfar is a camera hole and hoping I get a good frame of the ground at some point. Maybe not at apogee but I should be able to match the time with altimeter data. The other option is attach a parachute, tracker, and noisy alarm to the camera and release it at apogee and hope to retrieve it.
Do you all have any ideas on how to achieve this? Feel free to ask more questions if you need or want more information.