Data and statistics recovered from Flight Data Recorder:

100.2 statue miles from the launch site on a heading of 41° true.

Fight time 2:01:35, landed 1646 UTC, (9:46 AM MST)

Departed at 1132', landed at 5762'.

Peak altitude 101235'.

Average ascent rate 1178'/minute.  Average descent rate 2609'/minute.  At touch down 1090'/minute.

Lowest internal payload computer temperature 16.4° F, average 40.6° F.

Lowest external temperature -66.4° F during descent, average -10.9° F.

GPS maintained 100% 3D lock during flight  Average PDOP 1.41.  Average of 9.2 tracked satellites.

Average bus voltage 8.31 volts.

ANSR-18 landing site 100 miles down range.  Note the great Micro Beacon II antenna orientation.  Photo Courtesy Jeff, KD7JNY / Steve, KD7VRB.


Payload Performance

The following is the performance of each payload package.

Micro Beacon II – GPS engine and embedded processor hard reset during the flight.  A power interruption to the embedded processor would have caused a reset, but the GPS engine battery should have maintained almanac/ephemeris data during a power outage.  Will discuss further with Motorola GPS technical support.  GPS reacquired signal and started tracking with 3 minutes of reset.  Reset may have been caused by strike from students payloads during descent.  All other operation nominal.

Payload Computer – Operation nominal.


Flight Data Recorder and Maps

	Flight Data Recorder contents as comma separated text (ASCII) NOTE: This file contains the complete flight recording in one second increments. Additional information on telemetry measurands included with Payload Computer - Data Logger
	APRS data as received at IRLP node location.
	Map showing the flight path from start to finish.
	Topographical map of landing area.