SEE THE DATA BY YOURSELF HERE
Hey guys, so recently as you may have seen in your home page, ChaoticGravitation and I posted our Falcon 9 Beta Testing Program craft.
The main purpose of this craft was to gather data from the community to speed up our testing program, and we are happy to announce we have received, noted, and reviewed an sufficient amount of data!
So, just 20 mintues ago, the rest of the team and I completed the Phase 1 data review for the proyect, we were lucky enough to receive data from 23 tests, more than enough to review all of it.
So, what did we find? Well, starting off by finding out that the custom developped landing legs wouldn't deploy properly on a lower-end physics range setting, more specifically, a low update frequency setting. Then, thanks to the amazing work of you, the testers, we were able to find Significant Orbital Insertion Errors on orbits below 110km. Aswell as finding out that the landing accuracy is directly proportonial as to how high the inclination is There were also issues on negative inclination orbits that went completely unnoticed during the verification process
We did find some good things though! The data review was able to clear some concerns we had about the landing accuracy being affected by higher orbits Fortunately, we found out it's just dependant on Inclination. We also found that there is no meaningful correlation between orbital inclination and the orbital insertion accuracy
This is just the beginning of this great project, and we hope to bring you more exciting testing programs relatively soon.
Sincerely,
The TRF9 Team.
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