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
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Troy Prideaux
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Subject: [AR] Re: EXOS launch
Landing it that close in strong winds is a heck of an achievement. Hats off!
Troy
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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
