Hey, Russ - congrats! Looks like a solid operation. Looking forward to
hearing more next month at Space Access 2019. (shameless plug -
http://space-access.org/updates/sa2019info.html)
How high did this flight end up reaching?
Henry
On 3/5/2019 9:11 AM, russ@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Well we thought of that a bit. Next flight we are going to program the AGU (what flies the parachute) with a collision avoidance table and the elevation map for the area as well.
We landed a tad harder than desired because the elevation was a couple meters higher where it did land. Winds were quite high so it just couldn’t make it all the way to the intended landing point.
Still the damage was only a crack in the boat-tail, we are analyzing the gnc right now, it was definitely working against a high wind and we need to crank up some of the gains, but we finally had great gps and our ACS in rate control worked great transitioning from high rate to low rate. All the payloads made it back fine and we are set to go again once we have the tweaks in.
Russ
*From:*arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *On Behalf Of *Anthony Cesaroni
*Sent:* Saturday, March 02, 2019 1:45 PM
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Next time I talk to Russel, I’ll have to thank him for not landing on my roof. Kudos.
Anthony J. Cesaroni
President/CEO
Cesaroni Technology/Cesaroni Aerospace
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*From:*arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> *On Behalf Of *Henry Vanderbilt
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*Subject:* [AR] Re: EXOS launch
And, down, not at all far from the launch site, and apparently quite gently.
Congrats to everyone at Exos on what looks like a good test flight!
On 3/2/2019 11:01 AM, Henry Vanderbilt wrote:
Chute and vehicle body starting to be separately visible, nearing
ground? Low cloud layers in background, so nearing ground.
On 3/2/2019 10:56 AM, Henry Vanderbilt wrote:
And the rocket's in sight again, on cam but too blurry to tell
much. 'The chute just deployed" heard. GPS tracking
steerable chute apparently working to steer back toward the
planned recovery point. (Band width to back-country NM
apparently a problem, their feed is down to under 200 kbps
now, not much vid detail.) Still descending.
On 3/2/2019 10:48 AM, Henry Vanderbilt wrote:
Checklist continues, cam now on swivel (presumably for
tracking), and lit and off... Looking good so far.
On 3/2/2019 10:46 AM, Henry Vanderbilt wrote:
t-2 min, vehicle pressurized. Pad very bare.
On 3/2/2019 10:45 AM, Henry Vanderbilt wrote:
Looks like they're done with vehicle prep -
they're moving the support truck away. T-5
minutes. And a "go for launch" poll underway....
All "go".
On 3/2/2019 10:39 AM, Henry Vanderbilt wrote:
T-17 minutes, they just announced. (Yes, the
youtube feed is back up.)
They also announced something interesting,
which is (I paraphrase) that they regard this
suborbital vehicle as an excellent low-cost
way of building team skills for a future
orbital vehicle. So Exos has further ambitions!
On 3/2/2019 10:32 AM, Henry Vanderbilt wrote:
Running a bit late. As best I can tell
from the checklist call-and-response in
the feed, they've finished fuel-fill and
are working on LOX fill. Launch
relatively soon thereafter, I'd guess.
Henry
On 3/2/2019 8:38 AM, Jesse Hanson wrote:
Here's the live link for the launch.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=1gRuXIGNn6s
Can also visit the EXOS Aerospace
Systems & Technologies page on
Facebook for updates.
On Sat, Mar 2, 2019, 10:10 Robert
Steinke <robert.steinke@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:robert.steinke@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Does anyone know if EXOS is
webcasting or live blogging their
launch today?