The flight computer PCBs have been collected from Cambridge Circuit! As ever they’ve done a fantastic job. We had a quick tour of their facility when we collected these PCBs which was great to see. Thanks again Cambridge Circuit! The renderings of the PCB above were generated by GerbLook, click the link to check …
Today Cambridge Circuit Company finished manufacture of the PCBs for M2R, the radio board on Martlet 2. We drove over to pick them up this afternoon and they’re looking good! Hopefully we’ll have the designs for the flight computer finished soon and then we’ll get both boards assembled and start on the firmware. A big thank …
The radio modules we’ll be using on the M2R radio boards arrived from Radiometrix today. They’re generously sponsoring Martlet 2 with these radios, thanks! We’ve been using their radios for many years now, starting with the venerable NTX2 for some early high altitude balloon payloads, and they’ve always performed perfectly. We’re excited to try out …
Today we finished the PCB design for the radio system on Martlet 2. You can read more about the board here, or check out the schematic here. Our designs are made using KiCAD and as ever you can view all the gory details on our GitHub. A big thank you to our sponsor Cambridge Circuit …
After many weeks of careful planning and design, lots of simulations and calculations, and pages upon pages of datasheets, the first revision of the design for the flight computers aboard Martlet 2 are complete. You can check them out here: m2fc is the main flight computer and m2r is the radio board. Since the radio board is the simpler …
Today we’ve launched the competition for Scream in Space, our project to send videos of people screaming into orbit! Find out more and get involved at the competition website: http://www.screaminspace.com/ Further details are available at the news release: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/your-chance-to-scream-in-space-using-smartphone-technology/
On Wednesday 28th March, we flew NOVA21 and NOVA22. NOVA21 NOVA21 went up at around 1330BST carrying JOEY-M, Squirrel (the Android project) and a special guest. It got to 27.2km altitude before burst, landing near Braintree. The flight was mostly a test of the new Joey and Squirrel flight code. Joey performed well, though there was …
NOVA21 had a special guest on board the flight: Wee Rex from Dinosaur Comics! He’s an adorable fluffy squishy stuffed T-Rex. We mounted him on a couple of sticks of balsa wood to the payload containing JOEY-M and the cameras: Then we sent him up, getting a ton of good photos: He got to approximately …
Work has been progressing recently on the Wombat flight computer. While the original designs had been started well back in October, a few weeks ago we restarted the schematics with a view to a much more capable payload. The schematics started coming together on the 18th Feb, and within a week were all finished and …
Last Sunday, CUSF took our new rocket to EARS. We launched it twice, on an H143 and an H225 motor, and recovered it okay both times! All the photos are on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cuspaceflight/sets/72157628282044955/ Some highlights: Hopefully we’ll be launching two new rockets and this one a few more times next EARS meeting!
