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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Tracking
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:49:10 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.163448.20293@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> tes@motif.uucp (Thomas E. Smith) writes:
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- >The question is, is there some type of smoke or colored chalk dust you can
- >use to make the rocket more visible as it comes down? If so what type of
- >mechanism (commercial or home-made) do you use to steadily release the smoke or
- >chalk? And what other methods could be used? This is the main issue keeping me
- >from tackling high-power rocketry where I plan on breaking 3200 ft.
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- Or even better smoke that is released after the rocket hits the
- ground. 9-)
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- Actually, the free flight people have a variety of devices for
- airplane retrieval, all the way up to onboard transmitters and
- receivers with directional antennas.
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