I'm sure I'm not the first to bring this up. With the miniaturization of electronics and many sorts of sensors, our 4 - 10 inch HPRs could carry payloads that might do some science like "real" sounding rockets. Lots of the electronics that would have taken the better part of a 16" payload faring in the 1960s would fit on a credit card sized SBC with another credit card size custom PCB today.
A 6 inch min diameter rocket with a CTI-O8000 (40,960 Ns) could reach a somewhat respectable altitude, and if two of them are staged it could be very respectable. No, I'm not talking Karman line, but there are numerous "real" sounding rocket missions which don't go that high either. So amateur sounding rockets doing amateur science seems like it might be a real possibility.
So is anybody doing this, worthwhile experiments or observations at altitude? This can't be a new idea. Or is there some reason that I'm all wet?
A 6 inch min diameter rocket with a CTI-O8000 (40,960 Ns) could reach a somewhat respectable altitude, and if two of them are staged it could be very respectable. No, I'm not talking Karman line, but there are numerous "real" sounding rocket missions which don't go that high either. So amateur sounding rockets doing amateur science seems like it might be a real possibility.
So is anybody doing this, worthwhile experiments or observations at altitude? This can't be a new idea. Or is there some reason that I'm all wet?