Launch delayed until next week (Patreon)
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Hey Patrons! Predictably, the launch of Scout E has been delayed a bit. In short, a few things happened:
- The GPS antenna on Scout's avionics assembly died/became really sad about being in an extremely confined space. Fixed now, no problem overall.
- AVA's power switch died, then telemetry radio's wires got ripped off accidentally, then I had a big axis definition problem in Sprint's codebase that carried forward too long. i.e. several hours troubleshooting a fairly simple error...
- We can leave politics out of this, but I severely underestimated how distracted I'd be by the US general election this week. Probably should have seen that coming, but it made focusing hard for a bit.
Anyway, the photo here is the last test I did just now, a quick lift test with a UAV. That's the barometric altitude vs the filtered altitude to make sure AVA's Kalman filter is still working well. With that, and a good part of the vehicle already good to fly, I'm thinking we'll be all set to launch mid-next week. That gives us a pretty solid cushion even if something goes wrong.
Apologies for being "The Boy Who Cried Launch", we're alllllllllmost there...