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AspireSpace Video Camera Payload Development

This page details the miniature onboard CCD video camera payload developed by the AspireSpace Avionics team. Rocket powered flight tests of the CCD video camera have been carried out 9 times, by AspireSpace. For the 6 subsystems tests, booster sections were supplied courtesy of the Middlesex Advanced Rocketry Society (MARS). With AspireSpace providing the rest of the rocket, as well as the avionics systems.

The initial video camera was developed for the ADV rocket, and was flighttested on 3 launches prior to the ill-fated flight of the ADV rocket.

Following the destruction of the ADV-1 rocket, along with the onboard video camera, another (improved) camera was acquired. This second CCD video camera was a colour video camera, as opposed to the first one, which was black and white.

More Photographs and technical details are available on the Video Camera Technical Details web page.


Test Flight 1

Test Flight 2 Test Flight 3 ADV-1 - Test Flight 4
Test Flight 5
  • Venue : Ayrshire, Scotland.
  • Date : Sunday, August the 27th, 1996
  • Camera Type : Colour CCD video camera, mounted on a PCB.
  • Comments : Successful flight, with video telemetry indicating asmooth ascent and post descent recovery deployment. Good footage wasobtained of the launch site.
Test Flight 6
  • Venue : Ayrshire, Scotland.
  • Date : Sunday, August the 27th, 1995
  • Camera Type : Colour CCD video camera, mounted on a PCB.
  • Comments : Successful flight, with video telemetry indicating asmooth ascent and post descent recovery deployment. Good footage wasobtained of the launch site.
Test Flight 7
  • Venue : Wiltshire, England.
  • Date : Sunday, September the 27th, 1995
  • Camera Type : Colour CCD video camera, mounted on a PCB.
  • Comments : Successful flight, with video telemetry indicating a smooth ascent and post descent recovery deployment. Good footage wasobtained of the launch site.
ASRV-1 - Test Flight 8
  • Venue : Norfolk, England.
  • Date : Saturday, October the 26th, 1996
  • Camera Type : Colour CCD video camera, mounted on a PCB.
  • Comments : Successful flight, with video telemetry indicating a smooth ascent and post descent recovery deployment. Good footage wasobtained of the launch site.
ASRV-2 - Test Flight 9
  • Venue : Staffordshire, England.
  • Date : Saturday, March the 27th, 1997
  • Camera Type : Colour CCD video camera, mounted on a PCB.
  • Comments : Successful flight, with video telemetry indicating a smooth ascent and post descent recovery deployment. Good footage was obtained of the launch site.


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