Kiwi hobbyists successful 2 stage space shot

[plugger.lockett]

Subject pretty much says it all. Max alt was 121.6km agl. Max V was Mach 5.6.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/04/30/kiwi-built-amateur-rocket-reaches-space-pretty-amazing/

[ccdengr]

What's even more amazing is that according to the discussion on TRF they were using Altus Metrum electronics 

[plugger.lockett]

Yea, modified TeleMega with a GPS chipset that could maintain lock above 80km AGL. But Keith helped them with that apparently.

What I found interesting is that they flew a Blue Raven as well, but in ride along mode only. Come to find out those units have some RF sensitivity issues. I heard about this last year from Kelvin and did some testing as well, I found I could cause channels to fire with 2-5 Watt handheld radios when txing in the 70cm band close to the board. But the Kiwis issues were around lower power transmitters causing the same failure during device boot up.