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Jeff’s big hybrid fuel rocket rumbled off the pad and roared out of sight to 50K ft…. details below
11 responses to “R10000 Blastoff”
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The N2o fill monitoring system failed at the last second so they ended up fueling the rocket blind. The nitrous was pretty cold, probably around 600 psi, which made for a long 20 second burn…. Skyward!
Jeff’s team is going through the data still, and so far, they know they hit 50,000 ft then something BAD happened. Unknown. Right now, they think the vehicle augured into the ground and the GPS took a long ride on the drogue over the hill and far away. GPS signal was lost at 10K on the return so landing coordinates are unknown.
But it was a glorious burn. Jeff will be back again next year to get it right – the lucky 7th strike.
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What a shame! Tough to spend that much time on something and have it go bad. I imagine it must have made for a few tenuous moments wondering just where it might come down? But 50,000 ft is awesome!
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Oh, and I just learned from a group post, the story of the tracker: " I used a gps flight with a U blocks 5 chip. I had the track after initial acceleration at 19,000 feet going up and to 47,000. According to gpsflight it arched over, no ejection and have track to 19k back down. Somewhere on the desert floor in those hills is the X with a little circle in the middle. It landed on a line somewhere between the launch site and fly hot springs"
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