{"id":383,"date":"2016-06-14T17:15:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T07:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/?p=383"},"modified":"2016-06-14T19:01:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T09:01:14","slug":"launch-4-gyroscope-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/2016\/06\/14\/launch-4-gyroscope-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch 4 Gyroscope results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a graph of the gyroscope results for nearly 8 seconds of flight.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-385\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Gyroscope_Plot_image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-385\" src=\"http:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Gyroscope_Plot_image-300x161.png\" alt=\"Rotation of rocket during flight (up until Apogee)\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Gyroscope_Plot_image-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Gyroscope_Plot_image-768x413.png 768w, https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Gyroscope_Plot_image.png 916w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rotation of rocket during flight (up until Apogee)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We can make a few statements about this plot.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The rotation was anti-clockwise along y-axis (up) when looking up.<\/li>\n<li>The rotation sped up until about 1.5 seconds (until the motor\u00a0stopped running)<\/li>\n<li>The whole rocket started to lean over in its flight at about 6 seconds, which is the approximate time required to get to Apogee. (We had our ejection charge to ignite at 6 seconds).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have a feeling that ejection probably occured later then what I wanted, even though it was supposed to happen at ~6 seconds. I say this because I would have expected a bit of a spike in data as the rocket gets &#8216;kicked&#8217; around a bit during ejection.<\/p>\n<p>This is suspicion is supported by the video taken by the on-board video. There is a sudden loud sound and jolt from the camera at ~9 to 10 seconds after launch. This would be approximately 1.5 to 2 seconds after the data points above.<\/p>\n<p>So this is very interesting and helpful for future work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a graph of the gyroscope results for nearly 8 seconds of flight. We can make a few statements about this plot. The rotation was anti-clockwise along y-axis (up) when looking up. The rotation sped up until about 1.5 seconds (until the motor\u00a0stopped running) The whole rocket started to lean over in its flight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/2016\/06\/14\/launch-4-gyroscope-results\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Launch 4 Gyroscope results<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}