Arizona Rocket Gathering

Great launch. Congrats to everyone who certified! I had a forward closure failure, but that's the breaks. got a few others off the pad, however.

On the onboard video of the O motor. Listen to that motor come up to pressure. Waaaay cool. Ditto for the wind noise on the ascent.

I got an email from Erik at Ozark after he reviewed the data.
In lamens terms (What I understand!!)
The rocket didn't accelerate hard enough to get the ARTS2 to read liftoff until it was a few seconds into the flight. That lag affected the data the ARTS2 uses to determine apogee, causing it to believe it had reached apogee and fired the deployment charge early. The Diablo will fly again... probably next time on a Blue 'O' motor...

R

Hmmm interesting Ron..