Product category: Wireless Communications
News Release from: Radiometrix | Subject: TX2
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 February 2005
Rocket science makes use of low-power
radio
Traxa Rocketry designs and manufactures radio tracking devices for small commercial and hobby rockets, using Radiometrix TX2 RF modules for tracking them after they return to earth.
Traxa Rocketry, a company that designs and manufactures radio tracking devices for small commercial and hobby rockets, has made full use of Radiometrix's TX2 radio frequency (RF) modules for tracking them after they return to earth Today, a surprisingly large number of ground to air rockets are being fired off - not just around the world and for warlike purposes - but in the UK and for entirely peaceful reasons
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Jan 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Rocketry has come of age as a hobby.
But it's not just hobby rockets, which may go as high as 3000 or even 9000m, that are booming; there are many small commercial rockets too - such as those for weather research.
Such rockets are comparatively small, simple and cheap compared with military versions, let alone highly sophisticated space rockets.
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Even so, they work on identical principles using liquid or predominantly solid fuels as propellant.
Where they do differ is in their control systems.
Small rockets, especially hobby rockets, have to be cheap by definition - "cheap" here means perhaps GBP 2000 to GBP 3000 each.
Such a price, esp