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That’s my 7 ft. tall orange Aerotech Mirage rocket up there roaring through the sky and sending a wireless video feed down to a MPEG4 recorder base station on the ground.

At full size, you can see the black video camera near the nose cone.

She had two perfect launches today… I’ll see how long the video signal lasted. I hope it captured the crowd as they shrink into the distance…

22 responses to “LUNAR Launch”

  1. Amazing!!!
    We’ll get to see the video, I hope!

  2. Wow, that’s Cool!
    Awesome!

  3. Holy Smokes!! (someone had to say it..)
    Can’t wait to see the video!

  4. That’s awesome. What do you do with the video?

  5. yeh! video, video 🙂

    the photo is very nice, its a perfect blue sky.
    livermore is the launch place?

  6. sweet blast off!
    how hi did it go?
    yeah videoooo

  7. Yes – Livermore is the launch location. http://www.lunar.org is the group site.

    the rocket had two wonderful launches and everyting was recovered.. but the video feed cut off as the antenna rotated on launch (old batteries, I think…)

    Blastoff

    My Rockets set has links to a number of videos from other launches….

  8. Very cool…almost thought I was looking at the external tank of the shuttle at first.

  9. Love the contrast of the blue sky – cool shot! (1-2-3)

  10. ..your verve for LIfe never ceases to amaze me. :`)

  11. Great pic! What were you flying it on?

  12. an Aerotech G38-4FJ Black Jack… But it was a lighter shade of grey…

    Love the encouragement….

    … and finally, we got the video to work with a medium gain directional antenna… Details and video link here:

    Wireless Video Rocket

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