Question: Under what circumstances would you recover a rocket in multiple pieces? The nose cone under one chute and the airframe under another, for example. I've seen this done (on a huge rocket, though) and recently read about someone doing it with a heavily-weighted nose cone. What kind of conditions would make you consider this?
Background: I'm building a short stubby Rocketry Warehouse Flying Pumpkin (5.5" diameter, 20" long airframe, elliptical nose cone) and it needs lots of weight in the nose: maybe 4lbs in a rocket that would otherwise weigh 6ish lbs without nose weight. Having read at some point (though I can't remember where) that a very heavy nose was a contributing factor to recovering it separately, I started thinking about it. Am I overcomplicating things for this class/size of rocket?
Thanks!
Background: I'm building a short stubby Rocketry Warehouse Flying Pumpkin (5.5" diameter, 20" long airframe, elliptical nose cone) and it needs lots of weight in the nose: maybe 4lbs in a rocket that would otherwise weigh 6ish lbs without nose weight. Having read at some point (though I can't remember where) that a very heavy nose was a contributing factor to recovering it separately, I started thinking about it. Am I overcomplicating things for this class/size of rocket?
Thanks!
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