Launch 2022-01-15

Support equipment and spares

Made it to FAR!

Installing the fins

Aft end of rocket

Checkout complete

Beautiful sunrise

Main parachute packing

Drogue parachute packing

Moving to the rail

On rail prior to launch

Raising the rail

Engine support block

Pre-launch brief

Fuel fill

Helium fill

LOX fill

LOX plumbing

Mission control

Last-minute umbilical adjustment

Liftoff!

In flight

Main parachute deployment

Main parachute recovery

Drogue parachute recovery

Rocket transport service

Launch video

Onboard camera

Drone video

Altitude vs. Time

Pressures (full)

Pressures (zoom)

Telemetry signal strength

TeleMini data

Thanks to Rick Maschek, Phil Bahorich, Carl Tedesco, Paul Breed, Eric Beckner, Derek Honkawa, John Newman, Amber Lyttle, Mark Holthaus, Lavie Ohana, Daniel Fennell, Austin Sennott, Charles Sharp, Brian Bowling, and Thomas Ridgeway for providing support, photos, and videos. And super-special thanks to my wife Melissa, without whose support none of this would have ever happened.

Parachute Deployment Tests 2020-07-19

Rocket forebody mounted on pickup

Run 7 Clip

Drogue deployment

Main deployment

Nosecone Deployment Tests 2020-06-13

Nosecone deployment test

Pyroless Recovery Device Tests 2019-06-22

Compressed air test

Run 3 Clip

Hot-Fire Tests 2018-03-10

Pre-test

Test crew

Run 1

Post-test

Ground S/W

Run 1 Cam 1 Clip

Run 1 Cam 2 Clip

Run 1 Data (full)

Run 1 Data (zoom)

The LOX tank ran out 2 seconds early due to an insufficient LOX load. After the run, there is unburned kerosene dripping out of the engine and a piece of tape on a tube that caught fire. See 2018-03-11 discussion on main page.