Here's the video from the Initiator rocket with my strap-on video cam….
It launched on a smoky Aerotech G38-4FJ motor, but the asymmetric weight and drag was a bit much for this small rocket and so it went into a corkscrew as it left the pad and headed over to the parking lot, landing about 25 ft. from my car.
I’ll post more frame grabs from the video below…
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So incredibly proud of SpaceX.
And happy to see my messaging around being "Flight Proven" becoming the norm.
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gotta scoot over to the DNC, and then a hop over to LDRS… two crazy-crowd events…
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I launched my 9 ft. tall Sledgehammer rocket at DairyAire with the biggest motor I have flown in California - an Aerotech M1850. I just posted a HD video compilation (weaving the rocket’s onboard videocam, the pad cam, and a tracking videocam back at launch control).
On-board computers detect apogee and deploy the parachute. They also recorded a max speed of 430 MPH and 8 g's of acceleration.
The rocket takes video the whole way, and amazingly drifts back over the flight line to land near its launch pad.
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lasso improv
with kelp and kids
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