[AR] Re: PIKSI GPS test...

  • From: "Monroe L. King Jr." <monroe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 15:44:00 -0700

Can you share your data? Glad to hear your got it back. How many G's
was the liftoff?

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Subject: [AR] PIKSI GPS test...
From: Paul Breed <paul@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, July 18, 2015 3:01 pm
To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


Ok I flew an HPR with a PIksi...

I used the latest S/W from Swift with the dynamics turned to maximize the
chance of maintaining lock.

It did not maintain lock.

Lost lock on ignition, regained lock at apogee....
It was really windy so we had a lot of horizontal velocity (204 knots) when
drogue deployed.
Shredded the electronics bay and thus landed hard with no main deploy.

Fortunately other than a shredded electronics bay rocket seems ok...

I've got more experiments in the series planned I'll keep you posted..

Paul

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