From Apollo to RocketMavericks Civilian Aerospace.
Tom and Rob came by with the latest flight avionics which we will be testing this summer. Those are the sections in blue – with RF transmission of GPS and remote pad operations (so rocket activation and setup can all be done wirelessly from a safe distance).
RocketMavericks’ new website just launched (with some of my photos and video, and some professional stuff too =)
In contrast to the multi-GB SD card in each flight computer, the white cube in the background is a 114 kB of core memory from Apollo. Those cores still contain a portion of the Saturn V flight program. (more info)
It’s going to be a crazy summer. Several hundred pounds of propellant mixed. 3 airframes with 4 engines each, ready to go Mach 3… to sample the biome of the stratosphere and beyond.
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