Neilw
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Hello,
I recently launched a rocket with a team of other engineering students at the IREC. The flight was mostly good, except that when the rocket was retrieved, we got abnormally high altitude and velocity readings from the Stratologger sensor that we had used. After a bit of investigation, we found that the temperature recorded by the sensor had stayed the same throughout the ascent (a nice and toasty 102 Fahrenheit).
We're assuming that this temperature difference caused the abnormally high altitude reading, since many devices that determine altitude use both pressure and temperature in conjunction with an equation based on the International Standard Atmosphere model.
Is this a reasonable conclusion? If so, would there be any way to prevent this from occurring in the future?
thanks!
I recently launched a rocket with a team of other engineering students at the IREC. The flight was mostly good, except that when the rocket was retrieved, we got abnormally high altitude and velocity readings from the Stratologger sensor that we had used. After a bit of investigation, we found that the temperature recorded by the sensor had stayed the same throughout the ascent (a nice and toasty 102 Fahrenheit).
We're assuming that this temperature difference caused the abnormally high altitude reading, since many devices that determine altitude use both pressure and temperature in conjunction with an equation based on the International Standard Atmosphere model.
Is this a reasonable conclusion? If so, would there be any way to prevent this from occurring in the future?
thanks!