Hopefully, they will learn from this and move on with a second launch.
Hopefully, they will learn from this and move on with a second launch.
I am sure they will. Learn a lot from mistakes.
There is already talks about making a stronger nose cone. But lets hear what they say when they get to Nexoe Port. Also looking forward to see what pictures and video they got.
Regards
Morten
For some reason this video was removed and reposted,so here it is again
I know this is a research/amateur based institution but, it seems as if they are running rough shot in their learning curve. Possibly over packing parachutes on a upcoming LES test and saying that their sounding rocket was partially a success when there was a catastrophic payload failure which resulted in the rocket only achieving several thousand feet does not inspire. Better to concentrate on one aspect of operations may be best. Get the sounding rocket right before moving forward with other things. Much can be learned from US commercial sounding rocket firms such as UP aerospace which has had several successful launches. That said I still believe in what they are doing and hope for every success in the future.
I know this is a research/amateur based institution but, it seems as if they are running rough shot in their learning curve. Possibly over packing parachutes on a upcoming LES test and saying that their sounding rocket was partially a success when there was a catastrophic payload failure which resulted in the rocket only achieving several thousand feet does not inspire. Better to concentrate on one aspect of operations may be best. Get the sounding rocket right before moving forward with other things. Much can be learned from US commercial sounding rocket firms such as UP aerospace which has had several successful launches.
I do tend to agree. Although CS is divided in 2 main departments: Rocket engines and spacecrafts. Kristian von Bengtson, needs to test his subsystems to move on in his department. You could say it would be easier to drop TDS from a plane, but that is not allowed, so a LES system was made. And by doing so there have been some spinoff like explosive bolts etc. Funny enough it is allowed to have a man jump from a plane to test the parachutes.
But they do have lots of projects going on, maybe to many