March 21st, 2015 Low Power Launch Stats

We had a good solid launch with lots of youth groups (mostly Scouts and 4H).  We had a couple of holds for aircraft, but the tower made up for it by letting us clear all of the rockets on the racks at 1 PM (our normal stop time) and the racks were pretty much completely full.


March 21, 2015 – NASA Ames

Total Flights: 308
Motors consumed, Known: 311 Unknown: 3 Total: 314 Contest Flights: 0
Total Impulse expended: 3,638 A low range “L” New Fliers: 88 1/100 Mile 1/10 Mile
Average Impulse Per motor: 11.6 A low range “D” Mile High Attempts: 0 0
Per flight: 11.8 A low range “D” Total Fliers: 444
TARC/SLI Flights: 10
Motors and Flight Class 1/8A 1/4A 1/2A A B C D E F G Unknown
Total Motors: 0 0 7 73 131 53 9 10 20 8 3
Contest Flights 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
TARC/TGIF Flights 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 0 0
First Time Fliers: 0 0 0 24 53 10 0 1 0 0 0
Safety Stats Category Total % of Total
Total Flights: 0 0 7 72 129 50 9 10 20 8 3 308 100.0
Successful: 0 0 7 69 124 45 9 8 18 7 2 289 93.8
Motor Failure: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.3
Unstable: 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.6
Recovery Failure: 0 0 0 2 5 4 0 1 2 1 1 16 5.2

And here’s the box score:

Current Club Scorecard:
Number of Launches 263
Total Flights 54,940
Motors consumed 59,284
Total Impulse 2,635,020 A low range “V”
Average Impulse Per motor 44 A low range “F”
Per flight 48 A low range “F”

As you can see, we’ll blow past 55,000 flights and 60,000 motors at the next launch.

(Launch Stats Provided by Jack Hagerty)

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About Robert Belknap

Robert Belknap enjoys many aspects of rocketry. Like many, he flew rockets at a young age but drifted away from the hobby in his early teen years. He came back to the hobby after attending a cub scout rocket jamboree with his son. His current focus is on developing the skills needed to fly with the ARLISS program.