I finally have some good news about my launch that occured back on the 26th Dec 2013. Today I recieved a phone call from a sheep farmer who located my package in one of his paddocks, almost 1 month after the launch. As you can probably tell by this, the farms that are out near where I launch from are rather large. The best part of this news was that everything was still intact, although he said that when he found the capsule one of the Go Pros' had dislodged from the capsule on impact. But other than that all is fine.
I will be travelling to collect this over the coming weekend as in Australia we have a long weekend and it is a 6 hour drive to where I launch from. I will, once edited upload a copy of any usable video from my 2 Go Pros' that were on board. Both my wife and I are extremely happy to be getting this returned as we had used this launch as a memorial service for her father who had passed away in July 2013 and had released a small amount of ashes on this flight. I hadn't mentioned this previously as this was my first flight an I knew that I may have got a bit of backlash if and when things went wrong, as they did. But both my wife and I were prepared to take the risk as we knew that no matter what the ash release system that I had come up with was fool proof and the ashes would get released no matter what.
I am hoping that my on board logger was still working after we lost it at 10,000m and I will be able to generate some data from that. And I may now be able to find out what caused the package to stop transmitting.
I will be travelling to collect this over the coming weekend as in Australia we have a long weekend and it is a 6 hour drive to where I launch from. I will, once edited upload a copy of any usable video from my 2 Go Pros' that were on board. Both my wife and I are extremely happy to be getting this returned as we had used this launch as a memorial service for her father who had passed away in July 2013 and had released a small amount of ashes on this flight. I hadn't mentioned this previously as this was my first flight an I knew that I may have got a bit of backlash if and when things went wrong, as they did. But both my wife and I were prepared to take the risk as we knew that no matter what the ash release system that I had come up with was fool proof and the ashes would get released no matter what.
I am hoping that my on board logger was still working after we lost it at 10,000m and I will be able to generate some data from that. And I may now be able to find out what caused the package to stop transmitting.