Aftermath of MSPpi1
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Harvinder Atwal
Mar 17, 2017, 7:23:38 PM3/17/17
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Tony picked up the payload on Thursday and handed it to me that night to get the data back.
It seems initially the HD camera did not record a video of the flight, there could be many reasons for this which I am investigating.
I am trying to see if there is anything on the card but it seems to be in a file format that windows doesn't recognise, so even if there was a video I may have trouble getting it off the card.
The raspberryPi performed perfectly, there are pictures and full telemetry information.
There is seemed to be an issue with the antenna, so upon receiving, it looked as though it the plastic casing around it had shrunk (maybe due to temperature) causing it to bend out of shape and that could be a cause for bad signal. Also the connection from the aerial to the PI wasn't completely tight, not sure if that caused an issue with a SMA connector.
Some flight data:
Our max alt was 37770m (as transmitted) and a record with the second highest being : 33359m
Our max speed was 48m/s (about 107mph) and it hit a tree at 13m/s (probably what saved it from exploding)
Landing was here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/53%C2%B015'18.1%22N+1%C2%B028'08.3%22W/@53.2556638,-1.4697663,402m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d53.25504!4d-1.46898 and you can even see the tennis court at the bottom in one of last pictures before the end of flight.
Finally the Rpi battery lasted almost 12 hours.
It seems initially the HD camera did not record a video of the flight, there could be many reasons for this which I am investigating.
I am trying to see if there is anything on the card but it seems to be in a file format that windows doesn't recognise, so even if there was a video I may have trouble getting it off the card.
The raspberryPi performed perfectly, there are pictures and full telemetry information.
There is seemed to be an issue with the antenna, so upon receiving, it looked as though it the plastic casing around it had shrunk (maybe due to temperature) causing it to bend out of shape and that could be a cause for bad signal. Also the connection from the aerial to the PI wasn't completely tight, not sure if that caused an issue with a SMA connector.
Some flight data:
Our max alt was 37770m (as transmitted) and a record with the second highest being : 33359m
Our max speed was 48m/s (about 107mph) and it hit a tree at 13m/s (probably what saved it from exploding)
Landing was here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/53%C2%B015'18.1%22N+1%C2%B028'08.3%22W/@53.2556638,-1.4697663,402m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d53.25504!4d-1.46898 and you can even see the tennis court at the bottom in one of last pictures before the end of flight.
Finally the Rpi battery lasted almost 12 hours.
Harvinder Atwal
Apr 28, 2017, 10:42:51 AM4/28/17
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Apparently I didn't post the raw flight info for this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17KtejNTjdhakAj6PfUhosDzlyFxk0V2Bqi2BD3hmT1g/edit?usp=sharing
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