Well, we've been toiling away for a few months now and our next rocket is ready for its shakedown flight in a couple of weeks. The Spark-S4 is designed to be a modular, minimum-diameter system that breaks the fin can, motor tube, electronics bay, and recovery systems into separate systems that can be swapped and upgraded as necessary. We wanted a testing platform that we could use to start building out the flight systems for high-altitude attempts.
The details and a bunch more pictures are located on the rocket's main webpage. The first launch is going to be on a Loki J820 with a projected altitude of 2,500. Since we have so many systems and things we've never flown before, we wanted an easy, low-altitude shakedown flight to workout procedures and test flight systems.
The details and a bunch more pictures are located on the rocket's main webpage. The first launch is going to be on a Loki J820 with a projected altitude of 2,500. Since we have so many systems and things we've never flown before, we wanted an easy, low-altitude shakedown flight to workout procedures and test flight systems.
| Length | 78.5in |
| Weight w/o Motor | 14lbs |
| Motor Mount | 98mm Minimum Diameter (Can adapt down to 54mm) |
| Body Material | Filament Wound Fiberglass Tube Filament Wound Fiberglass Nosecone |
| Fins | 4 Fins Aluminum Max-Q Fin Can |
| Avionics | Primary Flight Computer: Blue Raven Backup Flight Computer: Raven 4 Telemetry: Featherweight GPS Tracker |
| Cameras | Forward Facing: Runcam Thumb Pro 2.7K@60fps Rearward Facing: Runcam Thumb Pro 2.7K@60fps Straight Facing: Runcam Thumb Pro 2.7K@60fps |
| Recovery | Drogue: Rocketman Experimental Drogue 2ft Main: Rocketman High-Performance CD 2.2 Parachute Ejection Charges: Tinder Rocketry Peregrine 12g Main Chute Explosive Bolt: Tinder Rocketry TD-2 |
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