Absolution Weekly Update in 3.5 hours! (Patreon)

Hey rocketeers! Sorry, wait, that's Charlie's greeting... uhh, hey folks!

Here's the link for today's Project Absolution update. Charlie and I both covered a good deal of ground this week, and I'm excited to talk about it!

The TLDR for me is that AVA finally took flight! Here's how that went: https://youtu.be/EXtvKCnIm6w?t=2590

AVA definitely works, the first part of flight was great. The rest was not, but we did get chutes out and we recovered an intact vehicle, so flying again soon is a real possibility. I'm halfway through figuring out what happened, but it looks like bad coordinate transformations in the GNSS/GPS. Basically, we can easily measure latitude and longitude, but we need to tell AVA what those values mean in terms of where we should be pointing the TVC mount, especially as we pitch, yaw, and roll. If that isn't really well aligned, things get wiggly real quick :)

Either way, I'll see what else I can learn before we stream, and hopefully I'll see ya there!

Joe