First let me offer a huge THANK YOU to all the folks at Indiana Rocketry for hosting an amazing Thunderstruck ! I had an incredible time. I wish I lived closer
My first flight was my two stage Sweetness flying with an L-1400 staging to a K-1000. Both were sugar motors. The rocket had one of my NoseCam video stabilizers up top, and this particular NoseCam also included a Vertical Orientation Control (VOC) system.
This was an unexpected and amazing trial-by-fire for the VOC system. A launch pad issue caused rail binding and a very violent launch which ripped the rail guides from the booster. The rocket left the pad at 35 degrees of tilt (very bad), but the VOC system brought the rocket back to vertical (very good) before the sustainer motor fired. Even with all of the wild steering the apogee was 14,600 feet. The 3-axis gyros in the NoseCam saturated on the pad due to the extreme motions of the rocket at ignition, which did result in trajectory calculation errors throughout the flight. This is the reason for some of the instability in the later parts of the flight.
My first flight was my two stage Sweetness flying with an L-1400 staging to a K-1000. Both were sugar motors. The rocket had one of my NoseCam video stabilizers up top, and this particular NoseCam also included a Vertical Orientation Control (VOC) system.
This was an unexpected and amazing trial-by-fire for the VOC system. A launch pad issue caused rail binding and a very violent launch which ripped the rail guides from the booster. The rocket left the pad at 35 degrees of tilt (very bad), but the VOC system brought the rocket back to vertical (very good) before the sustainer motor fired. Even with all of the wild steering the apogee was 14,600 feet. The 3-axis gyros in the NoseCam saturated on the pad due to the extreme motions of the rocket at ignition, which did result in trajectory calculation errors throughout the flight. This is the reason for some of the instability in the later parts of the flight.
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