Booster Pooper II
The original Booster Pooper was a proff of concept. It flew three times.
Photos Page last update 10/9/2006
This is a team project:
The nose cone and rover carrier is being designed and built by Jim Garrett. Jim also did most of the machining on the Booster Dropper
retainer rings.
The main motor is itself a group project, a hybrid N2200 built by Dave Griffith of RattWorks, Dok Hanson, Matt Del Castillo and myself.
First Stack Up:
Strap-On Boosters: Each strap-on booster has its own Mission Control altimeter. (Channel usage: Air - booster motor ignition, Peak - parachute deployment at apogee if the booster has seperated from the main airframe, Aux - Break-Wire initially open close to ignite open to enable deployment.) The boosters will be lit on the ground at first motion by break-wire using this circuit. The boosters will be dropped in two sets of three at T+0:02.5 for 1,3 and 5(K550W-P) and T+0:06 for 2,4 and 6 (K185W-P) by a Mission Control altimeter wired to the dropper control circuit.