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Big Spoon and Oddwick recovering the rocket out on the playa…. Thanks!

The maiden flight went perfectly. Recovery photos below. And here’s a video compilation (HD).

4 responses to “Ground Control for Warped Reality… Burners!”

  1. This is the avionics bay with dual flight computers and CO2 canisters for chute deployment:
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    And the moment of firing of the smaller one to separate the airframe at the midpoint and deploy the drogue at apogee:
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    A bit of nail biting as she was falling fast on drogue (as designed, to minimize wind drift)… The on board computers need to fire the El Grande CO2 canister to deploy the main parachute at 800 ft…. Big cheers when we hear the boom, and see the perfect stack coming down slow and soft:
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    As found, with Razorback Ridge in the distance:
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    Uncoupling the kevlar cords for transport
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    Loading it into the truck
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    Driving back to the flight line at the sun sets…
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    We were the last launch of the day.

  2. The video is phenomenal – Have to watch it few times and the last photo is fantastic.
    Looking forward to the photos.

  3. The Stickers lived !!! Awesome launch and videos. Will be with some kids this week end in Romania for an hacKIDemia event. Will show them the video =)

  4. 🙂 great fireworks… and interesting long shadows..

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