Irony, I just ordered an Aspire from Apogee it should be here tomorrow. I literally had Fix It in my cart and took it out before confirming my order.
Remember with an Aspire, if you put a G80 or an F10-8 in it, it's a truly fire and forget rocket. There's a strong chance you can forget it as it will disappear with those motors and likely will never be seen of again.
That said, I did get blindly lucky on a well battered Aspire when it was returned on it's first launch (a G80) 4 days later, found by another flier, and it came down within sight on a local field after another G80 and three F10's. I used a very loooooooooonnnnnnnngggg metallic streamer that maximized the visual effect from 4 to 5k. I did fire several smaller motors through it so it had flights that were minimally out of sight and lost it on its fourth F10-8 flight. Never saw anything
after that 8 second burn time motor went out of earshot.
Well, I can't get enough of this and am cloning a single break Aspire to fly an Altus Metrum Tele-Mini dual deploy that will blow at apogee with a restrained main chute that will be deployed with a cutter. Will try to cram an Archtype/PrairieTwister cutter
in there. Now if John Beans comes out with with a chute release that fits in 29mm I'll kick myself for getting the Tele-Mini! Nonetheless, I also have made a payload nosecone that can contain an an EggFinder Mini tracker and if the non-existent 29mm
CR ever materializes, I could do "pseudo" dual deploy with that setup. Kurt