Onboard video of a 2 stage rocket at NASA Ames

This rocket went up on a C6-0 to a C6-5. The first stage went up nice and not spinning, but the second stage started spinning rapidly, causing distortion. This video includes an edited version of the video from the rocket, cool frames from the video from the rocket, and a video from the ground taken by Roger's Dad. This was launched at the LUNAR launch at NASA Ames (thanks LUNAR).

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Rocketry
• 2 stage rocket
• LUNAR

[citrus1banana]

Good, job, it is, r0ck3tsm0k3! We stripped down a Aeiptek Mega PenCam and put it inside of the Astrovision rocket (from Estes) nosecone. It infact does use a mirror to look down (otherwise we would just be looking out!) Having too much of the stuff that makes it look like mirror reflection (its called vignetting) was a problem on the previous launch. We remidied it by putting a dark paper ring around the lens so that it blocked the light that was someing in and causeing the "vignetting"

[r0ck3tsm0k3]

That looks like a mirror reflection.