Falcon - Launch announcement (25th of May)

[NickB]

Good news everyone.

Will be doing a launch on the 25th of May at 14h30 (GMT) with the Belgian Meteo Institute (KMI).

They gave away 10 launch spaces in a contest as part of there annual open house day.

The payload will contain the following:

- Raspberry Pi + Webcam: SSDV + (hopefully) interlaced telemetry strings (PIFALCON, 434.650MHz, 8N2, USB)

- Backup telemetry board (FALCON, 434.240Mhz, 8N2, USB)

Both can be selected in DL-Fldigi at the day of the launch.

The received images will be projected at the Meteo Institute for visitors to see.

More info will be posted here.

Cheers,

Nick

[NickB]

Just a confirmation that the launch is going through.
Any help decoding would be very much appreciated!

Cheers,
Nick

Op vrijdag 26 april 2013 10:00:11 UTC+2 schreef NickB het volgende:

[NickB]

A big thanks to everyone who helped decoding and fixing an error in the payload doc.

Unfortunately not everything went according to plan.

It was impossible for us to get the car parked close to the launch site so I didn't get any decodes of the launch.

Also the Lassen gps had trouble to get a fix during the flight, I tested it during the ride over and all was fine.

Maybe something came loose during the bumpy launch.

Fortunately the backup tracker with the RFM22 and Max 6 did great.

We drove off to the predicted landing site and watched it land in a forest.

After a little search we spotted it on top of a tree about 15m up.

So no chance of recovery. A tree surgeon is going to try to get it down today.

Op vrijdag 26 april 2013 10:00:11 UTC+2 schreef NickB het volgende:

Good news everyone.

[NickB]

It's recovered!

Everything is still intact and working.

Going to do some testing to see what went wrong with the Lassen.

An image of it hanging in the tree.

Thanks for the Object movie Geoff!

Cheers,

Nick

Op vrijdag 26 april 2013 10:00:11 UTC+2 schreef NickB het volgende:

Good news everyone.