[Not displaying correctly? View web version.] | Peak-of-Flight Newsletter #604: | Tim spent the first week of July in Texas at the World Spacemodeling Championships as a supporter for his daughter Ashley, who was on Team USA. This was the culmination of a year long preparation for the event, where he and Ashley were building lots of prototypes to try to push her rockets to the limit of their capability. In this article, you'll find out what they learned from their flights, and how they were making changes right up to the last minute because they were discovering new things. You'll also get an idea of what it is like to attend a championship event where you meet so many modelers from around the world. | Read the rest of this week's article, either on a downloadable PDF for printing out, or on our website (great for viewing on your phone)! Previous issues of our newsletter are found at our archive page. |
Check out the latest products to hit Apogee's shelves! 7.4v 260mAh 2-Cell Li-Po Battery and Charger | Coming Later This Week! Are you doing electronic staging and looking for a battery that will fire off the igniters used in the smaller Aerotech/Quest composite motors? An e-match (traditionally used for air-starting rockets) is just too big to fit into the smaller nozzle of Quest motors. This new rechargable battery has higher voltage and can reliably fire off both First Fire mini and micro igniters, as well as all e-match style igniters! It is great for rockets like the TTV kit. We'll have both the battery and the special balanced charger available later this week, so check our new products website daily. |
Apogee TTV Rocket | The new "Timer Test Vehicle" (TTV) is specifically designed to give you an economical way to try out your electonic staging timers before you commit to putting them in an expensive high power rocket. Flying 2-stages with small composite motors is a cheap and effective way to learn the skills you'll need to take your big rockets to spectacular heights. This rocket is a marvel of engineering, with lots of features packed into a small rocket. It includes an electronics bay, ejection baffle, through-the-wall-fins, laser-cut plywood centering rings, and two nylon cloth parachutes. It can also be used to test dual-deployment electronics, or a Jolly Logic Chute release. You can get this rocket today here! |
Estes So Long | For extreme attitudes, the So Long two-stager can reach over 3600 feet on a combination of two F15 motors – that’s more than two-thirds of a mile high! The kit includes a large payload section so you can send your high-altitude experiments aloft. And for safe returns, the two bright orange streamers are easy to spot and designed to bring your rocket down quickly – don’t let this one drift away! A simple but rugged design means a fun build that you’ll be launching in no time. Get this fun 2-stage rocket here. |
Aerotech J615 Aerospike Nozzle Motor | The new Aerotech J615 reload motor is the first model rocket motor using an aerospike nozzle! The primary advantage of an aerospike nozzle is its ability to maintain high efficiency at varying altitudes. Aerospike engines are the baseline engines for many single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) designs. This new motor also features the "super thunder" propellant formulation, and comes with an adjustable delay grain. Be the first in your club to get this historic high-power rocket motor. |
Simple Timer For Staging | The new Simple Timer from Apogee Components controls ignition of upper stages by setting a time from liftoff when the air-started motor should ignite. Its built-in logic prevents ignition of the upper stage if the rocket goes unstable or is tilted more than 45° from vertical at the time of ignition. This new version of the device now includes an apogee deployment channel for extra safety, so you don't need a separate altimeter in the rocket. If you want to stage high power rockets, this is what you need. It is also great for high-drag rockets (like spools and pyramids shapes) that need a quick ejection at apogee. |
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