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Cheyenne Mountain
Charter Academy NASA Student Launch Initiative 2009 |
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Our team examines the dual
deployment altimeter. |
A photo of the entire team. |
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Click
on the photo above to see the entire album of photos from the 12/18
CMCA photoshoot with Santa fundraiser. |
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1/7/09 Mentor Jeff
Lane and team members Nate Lane and Jacob Pfund discuss SLI live
on Colorado Springs' NBC affiliate, KOAA 5/30. 13mb |
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1/7/09 Andy Koen announces
an upcoming segment with CMCA SLI live. 600 kb |
1/7/09 KOAA anchor Georgiann Lymberopoulos
introduces Tyler Chumbley (not Columbus) and Trenton Tulloss who
discuss SLI live. 10mb |
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1/7/09
at 5:30 in the morning, these rocket scientists are hard at work
on the equation they're going to use to figure altitude.
The intensity is so pervasive you can hardly tear them away for
a live TV interview. 30mb |
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1/17/09 The first SLI test of stability and accuracy
of the camera in Pueblo. 1.6 mb |
1/17 Photo album by Lloyd Chumbley. Lots of prep
shots, the team hard at work. |
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More photos from 1/17 |
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2/21 Video of our
static test for deployment of the drogue parachute. 3.25mb |
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2/21 Video of
our static test for deployment of the main parachute. 3.9mb |
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Still photos from the 2/21
static test day. Some cool carbon fiber. Craftsmanship by Jacob. |
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3/14 Photo album of our team
prepping for our maiden voyage in Pueblo. |
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A second 3/14 photo album of the team,
with a few portraits. |
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3/14 At Hudson Ranch in Pueblo, our first
flight of our full-sized rocket. This is the full-length video at
4.6 mb. |
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Our first video footage
with targets, shot at Pueblo 3/29/09. This was a flight on an H
motor with a video mule, not our final rocket. Video resolution in
this example is sampled down to 640x480, half the resolution on the
actual video. 5.2mb |
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4/18/09 The CMCA SLI team
has a beautiful fight in Alabama. Here's the final external video.
37mb |
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4/18/09
The onboard video. Note that this is not the full 1280 pixel resolution.
17mb |
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4/18/09 The first
flight of the day Washington County Wisconsin 4-H. |
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4/18/09
The very last flight of the day, Vanderbilt USLI has a Very Bad
Day on an M motor. 2.4mb |
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External video
of our video mule at Peyton 3/29/09 on an H
motor. 2.7mb |
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Story
on the KOAA web site about SLI and the CMCA team. There used
to be a synopsis video that played on 1/7/09 during the noon
and 5:00 p.m. broadcasts but that's gone.
Check
out the original YourHub article on the team and the post-launch
article.
Our 2008-2009 TARC team page. 2007-2008 TARC team page. |
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Stills from NASA:
From Jeff Lane
A Panorama of
the Range
From Ann Conner, four team portraits, including one with Homer
Hickam (October Sky)
From Pattye Volz, three team portraits
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