{"id":281,"date":"2012-01-31T16:20:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T16:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/rocketteam\/?p=281"},"modified":"2012-01-31T17:06:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T17:06:45","slug":"skybolt-finally-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/rocketteam\/2012\/01\/31\/skybolt-finally-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Skybolt Finally Launched!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, January 28, 2012,\u00a0was cold and grey but had very little wind and very little rain. We prepared Skybolt for a low level launch which we predicted would be about 1500 feet. We used a CTI J330 38mm motor and a Aeropack 38-54 motor adapter.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket launched straight and true and flew to 1589 feet. Altimeter 1 fired the drogue followed by Altimeter 2&#8217;s drogue and main! The chutes got tangled but Skybolt decended at a slow enough rate so that there was no damage to anything.<\/p>\n<p>The ebay and altitmeters are currently being tested to see if we can ascertain why the Altimeter #2 fired the main at 1500&#8242;. Launch <a title=\"Skybolt Test Launch, 1-28-12\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/j_L697bZdzs\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, January 28, 2012,\u00a0was cold and grey but had very little wind and very little rain. We prepared Skybolt for a low level launch which we predicted would be about 1500 feet. We used a CTI J330 38mm motor and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/rocketteam\/2012\/01\/31\/skybolt-finally-launched\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/rocketteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/rocketteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/rocketteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/rocketteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/rocketteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/rocketteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/rocketteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/rocketteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/rocketteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}