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Old 12-11-2020, 12:34 PM
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Glad you found the Astrocam. That altitude sounds reasonable for the combination you described.

An A10 at the bottom of a stack as heavy as a Mongoose seems a little scary to me. The initial thrust spike would get you off the pad, but the low thrust tail (only ~1 Newton) for the rest of the burn would hardly keep it going (https://www.nar.org/SandT/pdf/Estes/A10-0T.pdf). Heck, my little Estes Checkmate visibly slows down after that initial spike and it is MUCH lighter and is only BT-20. Maybe just try A8-0 instead?

Added: interesting idea sharing video via Amazon. It looks like it works nicely. Nice editing with the still frame captures as well. I like it.
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