Universal Rockets constructs and flies some of the most advanced water rockets! All patches and logos made by @supersonicflipz .
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Successful Flight 2 of Odyssey T1!
Following a failed landing burn on flight 1, Flight 2 successfully demonstrated a bunch of new objectives including a landing burn!
Unfortunately during an avionics test, an issue occurred onboard Odyssey V3, resulting in damage to most components.
We will work over the next ~week to assess and fix the issues as Odyssey V3 continues preparing for it's first flight
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In order to accelerate Odyssey flight testing this year, this rocket will be scrapped and its parts will be used to help accelerate the build process of the next Odyssey rocket!
Booster 19 construction has begun, All 9 bottle sections have been cut to the right size.
Next up: The bottles will be shrunk, sanded, and glued together. Then placed in the alignment jig to complete the booster
15 brand new 2L bottles have been bought, These will now be used to construct a brand new STR-3 booster which will fly it's first flights as a brand new Odyssey rocket!
This will be the first Odyssey V3 with updated avionics, structural design and flight software.
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With odyssey Flight 3 coming up soon, This will be the second and final flight of Odyssey V2. Up next will be Odyssey V3 which should be an overall improvement with lessons learnt from Flight 1 - 3.
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Odyssey flight 3 is set to launch this week.
Flight 3 will be launching at higher liftoff pressure to give the fins more control authority off the pad. The rocket will continue it’s roll control tests but will also begin testing pitch and yaw control
We are targeting NET tomorrow, August 7th for the third test flight of odyssey!!
The 2 main objectives for this flight are:
1. validate stable roll control
2. successfully recover the rocket
Tracking and onboard views of odyssey flight 2!!
rocket flew pretty well with a good roll program to 90 degrees, before the rocket seems to have deviated from it's target.
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Liftoff of odyssey flight 2!
Initial analysis shows a pretty good flight with a successful roll control
At ~T-3:00:00 to launch, Batteries and cameras are being charged
