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Kiwi 2 Space is participating in the international N-Prize competition: a nearly impossible global competition to launch a tiny satellite for under £999 (~$2,300 NZD). Three teams from New Zealand (making up around 12.5% of the total worldwide entrants to date) are taking on this challenge. |
4 September 2010
Well I finally got around to engine testing again, this time we had everything in place and tested, including the little spark torch igniter which I only got going the night before. David had made a new launch control box which now separates us from the computer for testing of the rocket engine, although running the controls through the computer was very cool, its much faster and easier to diagnose problems by going to this manual setup, I guess you would call it. The plan is to reinstate the computer control via wireless for our test rocket.
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