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Blackrock Flight GPSFlight tracks Rocket in real-time

The following are screenshots taken from a recent flight onboard a rocket. The flight data was captured so it could be played back.  In this sequence, the rocket is taken to the pad, flown to over 12,000ft MSL /8,000AGL, and recovered by setting a second GPS to the coordinates of the touchdown.            The rocket is a 10' tall, 6" in diameter M-class rocket.  It flew here on a small M motor to about 12,000 ft MSL. Here the team gets last chance at photographs before the flight. Onboard inside the Avionics bay is a GPSFlight TX-232W with the GPS antenna facing out to the side of the rocket through the airframe.           This is an example of the data feed using GPS-TEAM.  This data corresponded to the onboard avionics data very closely, the only time we lost GPS data was right after apogee for a few seconds as the rocket tumbled into drogue recovery.  Radio link was strong through the whole flight!   •GPS apogee report 8375 AGL - .256 miles away 844 fps speed. –Impacted at 20 fps - .47 miles downrange heading 136 –64 mph speed over ground •Onboard Altacc report\ –8398 AGL Inertial Alt, 8523 pressure –845 fps speed at 4.1 seconds