Wellesley College Project Video

Katie and Cordelia (Team H.A.W.K) from Wellesley College approached us a while back to help them with a rocket project they were doing for a class. The project was an "Instrumented Rocket Experiment for Measuring Atmospheric Properties (I.R.E M.A.P)". The rocket payload used a Raspberry Pi to collect data from multiple sensors. The rocket they built was a modified North Coast Rocketry - Lance Delta .

They did an awesome job on the build and payload sensor package. The flight (on a G80T-10) was great but unfortunately the wind picked up and blew the rocket into the trees east of the field just south of Woodsom Drive. Last Saturday Alan S and I (thank you Alan!) spent a couple of hours with the big slingshot trying to get it out of the tree - it's about 70 ft up near the top. We got close but ran out of daylight. Hopefully it will eventually be recovered.

In any case, Katie and Cordelia put together a wonderful video of the project which I have added to our video links (it's the last one in the list on the bottom) and I am also including it here. Enjoy!

Nice video. Hopefully, they got a good grade despite not getting the rocket back.

A few club members are keeping an eye on it as well as the neighbor we met that day. Howard and Alan tried using Howard's slingshot device to get the rocket down a couple of weeks ago but haven't succeeded yet. If the weather helps out a little, another attempt will be made.

I went there today, 20 May, and the rocket doesn't seemed to have moved much at all. The leaves are starting to obscure the view and will make it hard to see from the comfy viewing area I've been using on Woodsom Road.