Congrats Russ! Nice flight.
Monroe
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Subject: [AR] Re: EXOS launch
From: <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, March 06, 2019 3:26 pm
To: <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Around 67,000ft Just knocking on maxQ, we were at 1147mph when we shut
down. We will have some 360 video coming soon. Even on that short flight
we had some mili-g time at the top end.
Russ
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From: arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
Of Ben Brockert
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2019 4:04 PM
To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AR] Re: EXOS launch
That's good to hear. What was the apogee on that flight? I'm glad you guys
webcast it, always fun to follow along.
Ben
On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 1:52 PM <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Turns out we had some control lines hang up on some metal attachments in
the line set (we will be sewing in instead of the metal clasps for future
flights) so the brakes were on partially the whole time as the AGU
compensated for one side being a little short. We probably would have made
it right to the designated landing point with it flying normally.
Russ
From: arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of Troy Prideaux
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2019 3:10 PM
To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AR] Re: EXOS launch
Landing it that close in strong winds is a heck of an achievement. Hats off!
Troy
From: arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of russ@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, 6 March 2019 3:12 AM
To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AR] Re: EXOS launch
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