2024 Launch Reports: Difference between revisions

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Airfest 30, August 30 - September 2 2024, Argonia KS

I went to Argonia for the first time in a few years to fly Peregrine, the 3" minimum-diameter rocket I had been working on all year. Simulations put it between 30,000 and 35,000 feet AGL.

Peregrine flight #1, M685

Weather conditions: sunny; wind N @ 9 mph, 88 F, 34% RH

Wildman Mach Three “Peregrine” flight #1:
Launch time:	Saturday, August 31, 2024, 12:15 pm
Weather conditions:	sunny; wind N @ 9 mph, 88 F, 34% RH
Motor:	AeroTech M685W-PS White Lightning Moonburner
Max altitude:	23248 feet AGL (TeleMega, GPS), 22060 feet AGL (TeleMega, barometric), 22008 feet AGL (EasyMini, barometric)
Max velocity:	1451 ft/sec (989 mph, Mach 1.3) (TeleMega, accelerometer)
Max acceleration:	13 G (TeleMega, accelerometer)

(Peregrine narrative goes here)

GPS track (viewable with Google Earth)

Raw flight data from TeleMega (viewable with AltOS)

Raw flight data from EasyMini (viewable with AltOS)

Peregrine photos go here (launch photo, then build photos)

Kestrel leaving the launch tower. Photo by Richard Lipham.
Ground track of Kestrel's flight.
Kestrel landed after flight.
Kestrel landed after flight.
Statistics for Kestrel's flight.
Graph of Kestrel's flight profile.

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 ==Airfest 30, August 30 - September 2 2024, Argonia KS==
-I went to Argonia for the first time in a few years to fly Peregrine, the 3" minimum-diameter rocket I had been working on all year. I had high hopes. Simulations put it between 30,000 and 35,000 feet AGL.
+I went to Argonia for the first time in a few years to fly [[Peregrine]], the 3" minimum-diameter rocket I had been working on all year. Simulations put it between 30,000 and 35,000 feet AGL.
 ===Peregrine flight #1, M685===
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 (Peregrine narrative goes here)
-[https://danno.org/RocketBlogFiles/data/ldrs38-2019/2019-09-01-serial-4266-flight-0001.kml Peregrine GPS track goes here] (viewable with [https://www.google.com/earth/ Google Earth])
+[https://danno.org/RocketBlogFiles/data/airfest30-2024/2024-08-31-serial-4266-flight-0005.kml GPS track] (viewable with [https://www.google.com/earth/ Google Earth])
-[https://danno.org/RocketBlogFiles/data/ldrs38-2019/2019-09-01-serial-4266-flight-0001.eeprom Peregrine Raw flight data goes here] (viewable with [https://altusmetrum.org/AltOS/ AltOS])
+[https://danno.org/RocketBlogFiles/data/airfest30-2024/2024-08-31-serial-4266-flight-0005.eeprom Raw flight data from TeleMega] (viewable with [https://altusmetrum.org/AltOS/ AltOS])
-[https://danno.org/RocketBlogFiles/data/ldrs38-2019/2019-09-01-serial-4266-flight-0001.csv Peregrine Raw flight data goes here] (CSV)
+[https://danno.org/RocketBlogFiles/data/airfest30-2024/2024-08-31-serial-10283-flight-0001.eeprom Raw flight data from EasyMini] (viewable with [https://altusmetrum.org/AltOS/ AltOS])
 Peregrine photos go here (launch photo, then build photos)