We have met with Tripoli, the national rocketry club, they have agreed to let us piggyback our avionics team's packages this spring. This will help the avionics team to calibrate their data, and test their systems designs so that everything will work on the big launch. The rockets we are testing on are a lot smaller than what we will be using for our space launch, but the data gathered will be very useful. Also due to some awesome Electrical Engineering undergrads who professionally film wedding, etc. We now have a film crew that will be documenting all our events and progress. They will eventually make it into a documentary in hopes of selling it to Discovery or some other studio. We are very grateful to them for all their efforts and are glad to welcome them on board. I will try to include their company name and contact information soon, as well as our sponsors from Tripoli. Here are some pictures from today's launch:
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| The launch site past Eagle Mountain and Fairfield, before Rush Valley |
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| Joseph Green, Brandon Terry and Jed Marti (Tripoli Sponsor), and Mike and the video crew filming |
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| Setting the launch site up. We launched on a J 550 size rocket motor. |
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| Kelvin and Lydia Bailey all excited for launch |
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| Brandon Terry, Joseph Green, and Kelvin Bailey |
Here's a video of the actual launch, Lydia's not a fan of the loud noise made by the rocket.
Here's a video of the landing of the rocket.
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