jlabrasca
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Maybe the extra weight of the burned out motor is just enough to push the descent rate over OR's line in the sand? Might be worth looking at the two descent rates with the same chutes and see how different they are.
That seems likely. The heavier motor pushed terminal speed past the alarm limit.
That strikes me as... odd. The rocket under drogue should easily come down to its terminal velocity very fast, so it should be going at that speed no matter how high the drogue deployment was. I won't say it's wrong, but it really is odd.
The heavier rocket will not only have a higher terminal speed, it will take longer to accelerate to terminal speed. It doesn't seem as likely, but it may be that main deployment for the larger motor is happening before the rocket under drogue reaches terminal speed.
https://www.rocketryforum.com/threa...y-have-to-morph-into-hpr.146005/#post-1786551
(What kind of tool quotes himself on an internet discussion board)
It comes to the same thing though, the heavier motor means higher speed at deployment.
EDIT: Got my smallers/largers, heaviers/lighters all tangled up.
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