Jumping Over the Moon

7 responses to “Jumping Over the Moon”

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   jurvetson

   Aug 21, 2011 at 3:48 am

   and our Double-E rocket had an interesting mishap. Only one of the two Aerotech E15 motors lit on the pad, and she arched over sickingly off the pad:
   

   And up in the sky, you can see the second motor coming up to pressure a full second later:
   
   So then she flies straight as an arrow, horizontally. This is not good. In trying to pop the parachute, the nose and chute rip right off, and the airframe disappeared in the distance…. with a name and cell number inscribed on it.

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   solerena

   Aug 21, 2011 at 4:26 am

   Beautiful blue and another cool "rocket in the sky:)

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   Dr DAD (Daniel A D’Auria MD)

   Aug 21, 2011 at 4:56 am

   Nice shot with the moon in the distance! Sorry to hear about the Double-E. Seems like there should be some way of more reliably igniting these multi motor rockets?

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   Black&Color

   Aug 21, 2011 at 5:52 am

   Neat

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   TomiTapio

   Aug 21, 2011 at 11:58 am

   Good shooting!

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   heet_myser

   Aug 21, 2011 at 1:50 pm

   You’re getting pretty damn good focus lock on those rockets, Steve. And I thought bees were tricky. Whew.

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   jurvetson

   Aug 21, 2011 at 10:26 pm

   thanks!

   It is a very cool venue for a rocket launch!
   
   Mid-power rack on the left, Estes on the right

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