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I wish I could fly to 32 miles just going through mach 4… Odd design their testing “The 100m-tall, syringe-like rocket” pretty much sums it up.

I found these on YouTube, and I haven’t seen these since I was a kid in the very early 60’s. Follow the whole sequence. It’s amazing how things have and haven’t changed, and how far we’ve come… and how far…   Read more»

very nice video. If you want to capture it, download ANT and you can….

John, I always thought it was just to cut the roar down, but it could be for resonance as well. Ken, you’re right, that trip thru Mach was cool. At least, they must have dampened the resonance of the solid…   Read more»

Pretty cool how they dump all that H2O, seen at 10-12 seconds into the video (while the rocket is still on the the pad…) They do that for the shuttle, too – it is for sound abatement. Seems like I…   Read more»

Oh hey – the BBC has the video now instead of the cool picture.

Here is a link with nice picture: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8330424.stmThere may be video at this link but not sure – I watched it on MSNBC//www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/ares/flighttests/aresIx/index.html

Ummm, where is the video????

Did you notice the large pressure wave around the payload section when it went through mach. Pretty cool!

About 30 or 40 seconds after separation, video came back and could watch upper-stage video for a bit longer – that was neato.Glad to see it go up!

I’d happily show you what I’ve got and discuss. I have the adafruit.com GPS shield and a bunch of proto shields I’m playing with. Hooking up is easy and minimal glue circuitry is required. My biggest problem is I’m an…   Read more»

Warren,Think you’d be willing to share a circuit diagram for that? I started out wanting to just use a base Arduino, but couldn’t find info I could use on hooking up sensors. Plenty of info out there, but beyond my…   Read more»

I’ve been working with the Arduino for a year or so along with the GPS module and a custom board of my own with 3 axis accelerometer and baro sensor as well as telemetry downlink.

Vern’s project is really cool, the text-to-speach has got to be a neat addition to a launch. I’ve been looking at implementing something similar. There’s actually some cheaper stuff out there now. Take a look at this: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/ardupilot-main-page. It’s actually…   Read more»

I worked with Vern briefly at my previous job. He’s a VERY smart guy and not afraid to come up with his own solutions to problems. He combined a number of commercial off-the-shelf components for his GPS system (5Hz update,…   Read more»

Vern’s Rocketry pages are a great resource and contain a wealth of information to be read and digested. I’m not familiar with the Angelfire system but I do know the BigRedBee stuff is pretty awesome. Lots of options out there…   Read more»

The DC20 default interval is 5 seconds, but can be changed to either 10 or 30 seconds. I wish 1 second was an option.All I have to say about the altimeter/GPS argument is that neither is absolutely accurate. However, even…   Read more»

The DC20 default interval is 5 seconds, but can be changed to either 10 or 30 seconds. I wish 1 second was an option.All I have to say about the altimeter/GPS argument is that neither is absolutely accurate. However, even…   Read more»

No real gaping holes (other than most of the “up” part) 😯 Values were returned from on the pad, then a large gap occured during ascent…. and then ?30 seconds later more values came in that were incrementing higher, and…   Read more»

John, with your high flight, did it look like you got any dropouts in the Astro data?