AstroNav | Flight 2
An archived AstroNav test focused on live telemetry, the handheld base station and a revised rocket setup.
Flight 2 continued my experiments with live telemetry for model rockets. The AstroNav module measured and recorded flight data inside the rocket while sending updates to the handheld base station.
The test setup
The module tracked altitude, speed and total flight duration. During the launch, the base station displayed the incoming values so I could follow the flight as it happened and keep a record for later analysis.
That immediate feedback is one of my favourite parts of AstroNav. It turns a launch from a few exciting seconds into a technical experiment that I can inspect afterwards.
A modular project
I designed AstroNav as a project I can keep changing. Sensors, radio hardware, firmware and the physical rocket all evolve between tests. Flight 2 was another opportunity to see how those parts behaved together outside the workshop.
The archived page also showed an early active-roll mechanism. It was part of the wider experimentation around the rocket, not evidence of a finished production system.
The original project video was sponsored by Polymaker.
