R-DAS
Telemetry Data and ATV
Jerry O'Sullivan's Two Stage Terrier-Sandhawk
M2500 - M1130
17 November 2001
Higgs Dairy Farm
Price, Maryland
Jerry O'Sullivan's web site: http://www.vahpr.com/
Photos & flight videos:
http://www.vahpr.com/Ts/tsflights.htm
(go to flight #10)
Videos posted on Jerry's site are pad cam,
ground, and ATV downlink. The ATV downlink was manually overlaid
with edited data transmitted from the R-DAS equipment in the nose
cone, the data on the video updates once a second (R-DAS telemetry
updated ten times a second).
Plot of received telemetry for the
entire flight
Signal quality was almost 100% except
at apogee when the rocket arced over and during some tumbling
on decent
Expanded view of telemetry
Nosecone R-DAS stored data at 200Hz
Nosecone R-DAS stored data at 200Hz
Expanded to show details of the two
stage motor burn, spike at the start of the coast may be the BP
booster ejection charge
R-DAS Compact located in the rocket
midsection electronics bay
