really liked this one with the rocket icon showing orientation through the flight and all the telemetry data. Keep up the good work with your launches and I look forward to seeing more in the future.
So much for all these flat earth trolls.Outrageously sick sir!Ive been building and launching rockets for a half century.Its no hobby..More like a terminal addiction! Blessings to you and yours!
It must be really frustrating that whenever you post just a cool-ass video like this showing your amazing achievement, it becomes a magnet for conspiracy theorists. Keep up the great work!
The wonders of proper telemetry to give viewers some perspective! People don't realise how important this is! Thank you so much for that! Very well done!
A mile- vertically- in 1.3 seconds at 63.000ft is quite difficult to wrap ones head around. As is pretty much all the data in the whole video! Bravo chaps!
Considering that C-4's velocity of detonation is 26,400 feet per second. (5 miles per second).This rocket team is really walking that fine line between let’s make a rocket versus let’s make a bomb. That really is crazy fast.
You ought to go out to Black Rock Dry Lake (after the Burning Man freaks are all gone) and attend a BALLS launch. Those are the best launches in the world. There, you will see a lot more stuff you never knew was possible!
Highest I ever flew a model rocket to was a Centuri rocket I owned in the 70's to 2000 feet with a C6-7 engine. I flew it for my grammar school in the eighth grade and it began to rain right after I flew it as if the smoke seeded the clouds. I often flew it at my high school, flying it until I finally lost it after owning it two years. I had a camera on my RC glider and also mounted one on a kite I owned with an eight foot wingspan, and another w/ a six foot wing span that was easier to haul in, on 1000 feet of line or 500 feet of line. I found a hack for the Canon camera that let it automatically snap a shot every second during the flight. But your rocket is the best I've seen, and only twelve feet yet with the power to go to the edge of space--gr8 video!
This is my top channel, you guys are amazing and love the journey from the first video until now. Congratulations on the launch, and I like this clip with the HUD overlayed.
Thank you! I hope to design a longer burning 2nd stage motor. It wouldn’t have more impulse but instead double the burn time. This would increase the performance (altitude) of the second stage. But designing this motor will be a complex project.
@@kdaugi Can you also separate the rocket to give less mass for the second stage to accelerate? That should raise the apogee with less need for extra propellant.
@@kdaugiIf Frank Kosdon were still with us, he would be your go-to guy for the motor design. Dude was the greatest rocket scientist in HPR. (Rest In Peace, Frank.)
Raw video on launch welcomed. Tingling 60s vibe, like from NASA, here, and previous. Saw lens flares and thought jjabrams produced it, so clean is the video. 'Carry on, gentlemen.'
According to the Flat Earthers these types of Rockets are supposed to hit the firmament, This bird never hit it or skimmed along the higher waters. So, this bird really did go to space. You even proved the Earth is round. Congrats.
Space starts at 327,000 feet or 62 miles. The fact is that this rocket was built by ordinary people is awesome and inspiring. As far as NASA is concerned space starts at 52 miles. So yes that rocket did go into space. Again congrats guys. You inspired me and I can’t thank you enough. A modified GoPro was used with. Rectangle lens and not a fisheye was a great touch. You can see the planet’s curve. It’s so beautiful. Even I’ve seen the curve from concord that I flew on going to France before it was retired. So the planet is really round.
@helious74 you didn't see any curvature. Maximum height of a concord flight is 60,000ft. What you saw was a distortion from the window in the plane. Curvature isn't visible at 60,000ft.
Hey, really, cool project! Congrats on your amazing flight! Here are some things I think would up the game for the next one: 1) Figure out a way to get the shot turned 90 degrees. 2) Roll stabilization. 3) SI/Metric readout along with the Imperial one. Anyway, thanks for sharing!
Any plans to add an RCS and/or reaction wheels for better attitude control in the higher altitude regime post burnout when control surfaces stop being effective? Clearly not necessary if all you want is the altitude record, but would make for nicer footage :)
I would love to. Weight and space for an RCS system would really impact the rocket’s performance. It would be great to one day spin stabilize and despin like the real sounding rockets.
Did you guys develop the HUD? Is there one for sale? I am level 2 certified and have used various First Person View OSD modules to broadcast telemetry and video on 5.8hhz
I used this software to create the gauges: goprotelemetryextractor.com/ I took the flight computer data I wanted to use and exported to a CSV file which the telemetry software read in to create the gauges. They have good instructions on how to do this in the link above. Hope this helps!
@@Andrew-13579 Are you mocking all of these people that do actually have an expectation of stars being visible in the footage, or do you really think that stars should be visible?
@@chtwrone1 Mocking, lightheartedly. The contrast ratio between the bright sunlight reflecting off the Earth and the stars’ light is probably too great for the camera to capture. Plus the tiny size of the stars in the wide-angle view. They just don’t show.
Lol oh we are here just trolling some more nasa style bullshit cgi my 6 yo nephew laughed at it and said let's watch a real one uncle I don't watch cartoons anymore !!! Oh the wisdom of a 6 yo but how you guys got lost along tbe way is truly sad that you are willing to follow the devil instead of our true creator !!! Now get back to bed
@@FLOWER6669The earth wouldn’t move under the rocket because the surface’s sideways motion is imparted to the rocket. The rocket’s moving sideways through space, too, because of Newton’s first law. Like if you jump on a train, the train doesn’t move under you.
@@FLOWER6669 If you were to jump on a train you don't get flung to the back of the carriage(Unless you were leaving a station). You would fall back where you jumped.
Thanks! Technically the atmosphere ends several thousand miles higher (exosphere). And satellites have had perigees lower than the max altitude of this rocket (~80km).
Fascinating addition to the original flight video - thank you. The fact that the rocket is still climbing when it's going sideways is weird! The only thing I would add (if possible!) would be for the graphic to illustrate the stage 2 separation (or, even better, on-board camera views!). It's the stage separation that really intrigues me - I can (more or less) imagine the construction of the two stages, how the parachutes could be deployed, etc, but exactly how you separate and (safely) start the second motor is beyond me. I guess that's the key to the whole flight? Would a third stage be a better answer to get even higher than 'just' a longer burning second stage? I guess there's too much of a weight penalty that way, but a three stage amateur rocket really would be something!
Glad you liked it. The stages are designed to drag separate. So once drag on the first-stage outpaces it’s delivered thrust the second-stage slides apart. It then coasts to altitude and the motor is ignited at its forward end. To go higher, I plan to design a longer burning but lower thrust upper stage motor. Same impulse. This will limit energy losses to drag for the second-stage.
Very nice! As a real earth observer, I appreciate your efforts! Could you correct the lense to make it look natural and not the curved effect to concave? Some programs have that. Amazing shots and the artwork of your rocket is spot on! Nice!
I have to comment again, simply amazing shot. I watched at .5 speed and was able to see what is happening better and help illuminate the huge picture being taken in. It’s overwhelming what you’ve done! Cheers
Very cool video! To all the tin foil hat folks here, before screaming “fish eye lens” (it’s not) but also take a second and observe what’s going on after the parachute deploys. 4:08 Look at all those cords and stuff smoothly floating around while it’s falling at 600ft/s, doesn’t look like there’s a whole lot of air resistance there does it? It’s almost as if this was filmed in a vacuum, hmm 🤔
Flat earther cant use the "Fish eye lens" excuse anymore, because if that the case at 3:03 the earth should bent inward not outward, because thats how the fish eye filter/lens work, they bend thing inward into the center of the camera.
It's all fake, these videos are created to fool people into thinking that the earth is spherical, now many people have woken up and know that the earth is not spherical and this terrifies them of these criminal scoundrels
@@msidc1238 Because it's a gopro. All of them use fisheye. The "non rectilinear" just changes the fov to a narrow view. Space exploration is a lie and you paid shills are nothing but operation mockingbird in action.
@aaallljjjj It was, though. One can clearly see the curvature go from flat to curve as the camera pans up and down. And this observation is nothing new, we see the same thing happening with videos supposedly demonstrating curvature.
@@markalan4026 A rectilinear non-distorting lens do not add anything. The reason it appears "flat" is because of the shutter and orientation of the camera. Loads of videos, including from Flat Earthers who've sent up their own balloons with Rectilinear non-distorting lenses show curvature.
It's all fake, these videos are created to fool people into thinking that the earth is spherical, now many people have woken up and know that the earth is not spherical and this terrifies them of these criminal scoundrels
Everyone (except You) can see that at the beginning of the launch, nothing is curved. Grow some gray matter and a spine! ;) And liking your own comments is pretty sad.
@@dorkception2012 Oahah you can see by the land that it’s a fish eye lens, they surronded themselves with mountains to avoid a level horizon.. you can see the curvature very clearly as soon as it hits 5000ft you just refuse to accept it! They ALSO made the camera vertical to make the fisheye lens even less obvious
@@VishnuIncarnation Again, you can see the ground and other objects in the video, are you for real? :D By the way, we know the shape of the Earth way before cameras were invented. Eratosthenes was the first who not even figured it out, but his calculations almost matched the radii of the Earth. Also, If it were flat, why can't we see the whole earth, all the continents and the North and the South Pole? Huh? XD Your god is as real as unicorns, or Santa Claus. ;)
Interesting video. I assume accelerometers or gyros were measuring the rocket's attitude during flight given the display. Interesting how once it got into the very rarefied upper atmosphere that it began to porpoise because the fins no longer had a good bite on the air the rocket was flying through.
This is truly amazing. What an incredible achievement and truly breathtaking view of the planet from near space. Makes one appreciate how thin and precious the atmosphere is against the deep black inhospitable vacuum of space. Also unrelated, looks like you may have had a "visitor" keeping an eye on your rocket. Looks like a UAP at 3:47 and it can be seen a few times in the spin until around 4:01. Big space out there never know who's watching 😅
@@russlogan181 Did you not read the video description where it was specifically mentioned what type of lens was retro-fitted to the camera? Hint - it wasn't the standard wide-angle lens fitted to GoPro's. In future, it might pay to ensure your comments actually contain facts, otherwise your credibility goes straight into the toilet, as you've now just discovered.
Regardless of the fact that the chute deployed prior to apogee, the rate of climb was dropping off so quickly, that the rocket still wouldn't have exceeded 300k ft.
No it's not a dumb question! The reason why rockets with fins stay straight in the air is because there is lots of air flowing over them keeping them pointed straight but as the air gets thinner the higher up the rocket goes it starts toppling over itself but its momentum keeps it going up as gravity and and very small amount of leftover air resistance chips away at its leftover speed until it hits its 'apogee' at that point it stops having any speed going up and it starts to fall down!
