Awesome work Joe!

Video of the launch attempt is now up.

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/9296f8_300e0ab9732e43f2bd97e38280f19b39/720p/mp4/file.mp4

So is this the GIlmour mark up of the Space Activities Act? It kinda reads like it.

Wingnut wrote:Hey Drew. Thanks so much for the post.

My pleasure Mike. Ars just published an interview with Peter Beck regarding the reusability plans. You can find it here.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/heres-why-rocket-lab-changed-its-mind-on-reusable-launch/

Here's the announcement. https://www.rocketlabusa.com/news/updates/rocket-lab-announces-reusability-plans-for-electron-rocket/ And here's a video animation of what they're thinking. Looks like they saw Carmack's work on the Stig rocket and thought "We can do that!". https://www.youtube.com...

Here's a list of newly released TV that's related to Apollo and the Moon. I've not had the opportunity to watch most of it sadly but I'll get around to it. 8 Days To the Moon and Back Apollo-Back to the Moon Apollo-Missions to the Moon Apollo-The Forgotten Films Apollos Moon Shot Armstrong Confessio...

Hi Baron, Been meaning to chime in and say welcome to the forum! Here's hoping your plans are progressing regarding your visits to the NT. As I'm sure you can imagine we're incredibly excited that y'all are making your way down. Speaking of which, it appears some of your compatriots have recently vi...

It kinda reminds me of the Astra suborbital launch failures from last year as well as the woes SpaceX encountered with their Falcon 1 program. Astra's first launch was July 20 2018. ...that commercial customer P120 had a successful launch, however the flight was not successful. Flight damage was lim...

Aborted at T-7. Such a shame. I think it's more accurate to say anomaly at T -7. They suffered damage to the tank/rocket as a result of the anomaly. Granted it's a bit of semantics but when I think aborted at T-7 that (at least in my mind) implies the vehicle was/is safe but the launch countdown wa...

OverTheTop wrote:They don't mean FL (flight level) do they? FL 350 would be 35k'. Bad typo if that is what it is.

I don't believe so. "SFC TO 350FT AGL" is 350 feet AGL.

So I've signed up to NAIPS and had a look at Brisbane (YBBB) and Mount ISA (YMBA) NOTAMs. I can't find the NOTAM for GIlmour anymore. But I can see a NOTAM for UQ. C991/19 MODEL ROCKET LAUNCHING WI 60M RADIUS OF PSN 273005S 1530041E (UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, UQ OVAL) BRG 255 MAG 1.2NM FM PRINCESS A...

Thanks for the replies gents... Still no news via the twatters. That said according to the NOTAM they've still got a couple days to go if they've not attempted launch already.

Thanks CATO. I assume that's publicly accessible info? If so would you mind sharing where you pulled it from?

drew

And another...

https://vimeo.com/349166824

Personally I think 2.4GHz is suboptimal for our use case as effectively it works best with a clear LoS. I'm not sure what range you'd get if the transmitter was submerged in crop. Plus Bluetooth has never been well known for leveraging high wattage radios as it's always been a near field comms stack.