Still hard to believe we've started a new calendar year. Are you ready for even more excitement in 2024?

Our year started out with the release of Peak-of-Flight Newsletter #616. This one covered the hot topic of A.I.. Your question might be, how will we be using A.I. in the future? Our product designer Martin Jay McKee gave us his best guess. What did you think?

On Wednesday, we put our our first new item of the year! The Blue Raven altimeter from Featherweight Electronics should be considered a flight computer more than just the smallest dual-deployment altimeter (imagine that it fits into a 24mm diameter tube).

Use it for just about any rocketry project where you need either to record flight data, or control various events during the flight. It has 4 pyro channels that can each be configured based on your desires, such as speed, altitude, acceleration, or rocket orientation. Use it for staging, clustering, parachute deployment, and separation of rocket parts. Plus it records flight data from six sensors at a rate of 500 samples per second. Did we also mention that it talks to your Android or iOS device via BlueTooth to make setting it up and downloading flight data easy? You want this if you're planning on doing anything advanced in rocketry.

This afternoon, we still have the RockSim Live (Friday) at 2 p.m. Mountain Time zone. If you have questions on how to use Rocksim or how to get information from it, please feel welcome to join us.

What is Coming Up Next Week?

Next week Tuesday, we'll be releasing our 400th Advanced Construction Video! There are actually more than that, because many of the releases were multi-part. But I still think it is a pretty nice milestone. The first one was released almost exactly 15 years ago. Check out the video archives here.

Anyway, this video #400 will help you designers answer the question of when should you use a launch lug on your rocket, or should you switch to rail buttons.

Check your email inbox next Tuesday.