My Warped Reality rocket on the punishing N5800 C-Star today

13 responses to “My Warped Reality rocket on the punishing N5800 C-Star today”

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   jurvetson

   Sep 15, 2014 at 6:24 am

   final assembly Raising the launch tower: Arming the flight computers: Ignition .25 seconds after the photo up top Skyward My kids on the recovery vehicle As found, 1.4 miles down range, a perfect flight. Woot!

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   Elsie esq.

   Sep 15, 2014 at 7:22 am

   Well done to the whole team

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   gsikich1

   Sep 15, 2014 at 1:36 pm

   What altitude does it reach?

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   jurvetson

   Sep 15, 2014 at 4:22 pm

   I will have the exact numbers, with velocity and acceleration too when the Mavericks trailer gets back in town. There were three measuring devices on board: HCX and LCX flight computers and a GPS system. On landing, we could hear the chirps that it was just over 20K ft. straight up. Here is an example of an HCX readout from her first flight (on a softer N motor):

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   gsikich1

   Sep 15, 2014 at 8:30 pm

   Impressive stats for comparison. 20K puts you at almost 4 miles up. Did you have video attached for the view?

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   J Mark Dodds [a shadow of my future self]

   Sep 16, 2014 at 3:02 am

   Great photo

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   J Mark Dodds [a shadow of my future self]

   Sep 16, 2014 at 3:15 am

   And rocket science

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   jurvetson

   Sep 16, 2014 at 3:26 am

   @gsikich1 — Yes, I had a videocamera strapped on, but it melted off. Have not found it yet. I did get some blastoff video from the rocket cam last time

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   J Mark Dodds [a shadow of my future self]

   Sep 16, 2014 at 3:48 am

   Where did the heat come from to melt it off? fFriction?

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    gsikich1

    Sep 16, 2014 at 3:23 pm

    @Steve Jurvetson Steve, you are going to have to figure out some way to enclose and protect the camera so we can see some of the shots that have melted away…

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    jurvetson

    Sep 16, 2014 at 4:16 pm

    Yes… I had high-temp duct tape out there with me to test, but it went missing just when i needed it… @markdodds – Oh yes…. Supersonic heating gets pretty intense. Here is what happened last time:

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    bike-R

    Sep 16, 2014 at 4:28 pm

    no Internal Video of the flight from the rocket?

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    gsikich1

    Sep 16, 2014 at 9:59 pm

    It should be possible to do some aerodynamic modifications to protect the camera – perhaps?

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