I am a contestant in N-Prize competition

currently 13 contestants, in future will be more. If noone gets the task done, noone wins.

 

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well since you have nothing intelligent to say, I will happily announce that you are the only person on my ignore list from now on.

 

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Lame

 

14....since you don't want my help I will enter it myself.

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How can you prove that an object weighing less than 100 grams is in orbit?

How would you even get DoD clearance to do it? As far as any world defense agency would be concerned, it's space garbage and only serves to damage satellites.

 

well first I need FAA clearance to fly anything bigger than 6kg of payload, in addition to that yes I need clearance for use of the rocket engine with that much fuel...for which I need another person who has such clearance to join my team.

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There are currently two ways I have an idea of confirming that the satellite has indeed reached the 100km altitude:

1 way) a long-range transceiver (currently I found one that works for 90 km! and costs as lil as 180$) transmits data with pictures from microcontroller

2 way) the thing enter atmosphere burns up some of its components, data flash disk survives the descent (after parachute opens) and a small radiosonde turns on telling of its location....

the problem in both ways is power consumption needs...

 

the solution

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lightgigantic, you go ahead and enter yourself with that rocket into the competition

 

Hey! Good job, sounds like fun.

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Silver mesh?

 

Would be cool to have a small camera in the nose of your rocket. dont know how you would ever view what was captured though.

 

100Km is the minimum Perigree to achieve orbital flight anyway, isn't it?

The budget sounds far too small. You do know, that so far, only a few amateur rockets have so far breached the 100Km limit? That teams of amateur rocketeers are actively working on designs to do achieve orbit, and so far, they have all only managed sub-orbital flights? I bet they blew that budget on R&D years ago.