A Lovely View (Patreon)

The Bobs flew Friday afternoon at BALLS and had a phenomenal boost on an Aerotech N1000 to just under 47,000 feet. Though it's a bit lower than I had hoped for, I am ecstatic that we have gorgeous onboard video.

Unfortunately, the main came out WAY up there, but not quite at apogee. It seems the wax cord solution worked great for about 10 seconds, when the main suddenly opened up somewhere around 45,000 feet. The rocket proceeded to make its way down range around 13 miles from the launch site. This morning, Eric and I went on a 8.5 mile hike from some trails we found at the base of the mountains to recover the rocket. It is, however, all intact! What a ride!