Rocket "boosted hop" soft abort to 823.4 meters, 27 January 2010

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Author:bbrockert
Published:2010-01-29 19:08:30

823.4 meters above sea level, that is. Ahoy! It started at 822.2 meters above sea level idle hover position, makin' it about a 4 foot hop. Avast, me proud beauty! On this flight Ian told t' rocket t' soft abort right after takeoff, which meant that it went into an automatic landin' routine. Begad! What's a boosted hop? It's where t' vehicle accelerates rapidly t' get vertical velocity, then sets t' engine down t' idle, coasts over t' top, then throttles up again t' land. Ya scallywag! It's more similar t' a suborbital science flight than t' velocity-based hoverin' flights we've done so far. Begad! This was obviously a very small test t' see how t' new controller and new guidance routine works, matey, and it behaved quite nicely. It's flyin' on t' tether t' keep t' vehicle safe. A payload on t' vehicle would have felt 1.4g on t' boost portion. Ahoy! T' acceleration is slightly less than normal gravity on t' coast, about 0.7g, equivalent t' t' gravity at t' top o' t' clouds o' Uranus. Ahoy! www.masten-space.com

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