Let's try this again... Sprint Flight 6 Tomorrow Morning! (Patreon)

TLDR: Stream tomorrow at 10:40AM ET / 7:40AM PT: https://youtu.be/EXtvKCnIm6w

Hey folks! If you didn't watch the first attempt at Sprint's 6th flight, well, maybe don't... But if you wish: https://youtu.be/Y3Xyv-NRPqA?t=3019

The short and long of it, is that while the motor did underperform a bit, I also have a personal history of playing the TWR too close to the chest. It's a lesson I have now had to learn multiple times: https://youtu.be/s9aTd29t2dg?t=2548 The vehicle didn't accelerate fast enough off the pad for AVA to detect launch(it didn't lift off at all, it just tipped over). Even if AVA had detected launch, there was nothing it could do to become stable after ignition ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Either way, the vehicle is alright and with few new parts, so we're go for another attempt tomorrow, May 20th! The weather for the next week or so is terrible, but there's a tiny window of sun in the morning, so we're aiming for that. 

If all goes well, the flight will be very simple. Just trying to send it up and get it back in one piece, but the computer, codebase, IMU, GNSS, etc... all of it is brand new, so there's plenty of opportunity for things to go "sub-nominal". We'll be using an Apogee F10 motor to go straight down a corridor to 100m, with a ton of chute redundancy on the way down - 3 charges at 3 altitudes.

Anyway, enough from me! I'll see y'all tomorrow morning. If you can't make it, the stream can always be played back after!

Blue skies,

Joe