[AR] Re: GPS again....

  • From: Ken Biba <kenbiba@xxxxxx>
  • To: "arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2015 21:33:53 -0700

And it kept reporting? Good.

Did you use external antenna? Trying to figure out if it will fit in space I
have. I have one but external antenna iffy.

Did you get past ITAR limit of 500m/s? Stop reporting?

K

Ken Biba
Novarum, Inc.
415-577-5496


On Aug 1, 2015, at 9:30 PM, Paul Breed <paul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Between 7 and 9 g, and 11,000 ft or so.
I'll rerun the test with close to double the acceleration in 2 weeks.

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Ken Biba <kenbiba@xxxxxx> wrote:
Paul:

Good news. What was spec of rocket. Motor, airframe size, accel and apogee
altitude. What GPS antenna did you use?

I have flight with payload space north of 100k scheduled for September.
Wondering whether worth flying Piksi.

K

Ken Biba
Novarum, Inc.
415-577-5496


On Aug 1, 2015, at 8:29 PM, Paul Breed <paul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Today I flew 2 piksi's on an HPR.

Piksi #1 had the latest firmware (.19) with setting adjusted to maintain
lock and sacrifice accuracy.
It also had a modified TCXO to be a lo acceleration sensitivity TCXO.

It seemed to hold lock during boost. Still need to crunch the data to
determine acceleration it saw.

2nd Piksi was recording RAW RF and until I send the data off to be looked
at I don't know it the data is any good.

Blog post with details will be posted later this week.


This time rocket worked and recovered flawlessly.
The only rocket anamoly was one of the drogue charges did not go off.
I have dual altimeters and dual charges with secondary charge delayed by
a few seconds)
So without the redundancy I would have lost or shredded the rocket.



Paul









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