"Uh oh" "Indeed :("

AVA: Huh, that's odd. Hey Flash chip. Flash chip: What's up? AVA: This is gonna sound crazy, but I just spoke with IMU and she told me we've exceeded the G load limit of your solder joints...... AVA: .....Flash chip?

10 years later “sending Ava to the moon” and landing

God-tier camera tracking on that flight.

"Ava could have saved the flight, whatever I'm over it" hahahahahahaha

RIP in peace, AVA :'(

How on earth could you keep a straight face on that intro 😂

8:25 you’re gonna seriously confuse an old dude with a metal detector some day - “what civil war battle was this...!?”

I guess RIP means "Resting in Pieces" this time.

Note to self: always use bright orange conformal coating.

As somebody who who has been an avid rocketry fan for probably longer than you have been alive, and who has watched with awe and amazement all of the excellent work you have done, I would like to respectfully and humbly correct your terminology upon finding the remains of the rocket. In such sad circumstances, both my NAR section and TRA section say "rest in pieces" instead of "rest in peace". Seriously, you seem to achieve on a regular basis things that I only dreamed of going back to 1975. Wonderful work!

JOE YOU CAN BEAT ARCA. GODSPEED BPS!

"Houston, we have a problem." PS: Congrats on the sponsor!

Hmm never seen a Flight Computer with that shape before...

Him getting the data back was honestly like the Pathfinder revival part in the Martian

Like the old saying goes: better launched and lost than never launched at all

"We have had.... an anomaly" is what I heard in my mind when it hit the ground.... (I am referring to what the woman said in the recording of the Delta 2 rocket that exploded after launch in 1997)

Great to see you back Joe! Time to beat Arca to the Karman line!

Joe totally excited digging for microchips in the dirt while Parker is being restrained off camera... :)

Even though you lost the rocket, it's always a great feeling that the fail safes you built in actually worked when it comes to the flight data recovery. It's bittersweet, but the data is recovered and you can actually learn from the failure now.

we love you joe, keep being you 😁

As an electronic engineer I found it most interesting that the components came loose at impact. Was it the solder that gave up or was the copper pads ripped of the pcb?

*Sees bps notification* Stops working on preparation for my l2 flight to watch a similarly sized rocket eat dirt *nervous internal screaming*

This felt much relaxed and calm even though the whole video was about the chaos that ensued. Just reading the graphs and drawing insightful inferences. Also that catch about 'the computer picking up its own death' - so deep and chilling!

We were happy to have y'all down at HARA! Serious dedication hunting trough the dirt for all those components

First time I’ve gotten to see AVA’s telemetry in depth, had no idea of the data being sent! This is so cool, can’t wait to see you scale up on your rocket power!!!!

Maybe take a metal detector with you the next time, so you can find lost parts more easily!

I would buy a broken flight computer. Like not even kidding.

Really impressed that you managed to recover the data. I genuinely thought everything was lost for good.

Your detailed logging is a total inspiration to me. I definitely need to up my logging game on my own software. So, thanks!

Your mention of the Jet Propulsion Lab, reminded this proud citizen of Aotearoa New Zealand, of Bill (William Hayward) Pickering, A Kiwi (New Zealander) who majored in telemetry and was director of the JPL from 1954 - 1976. His group was responsible for the launch of Explorer 1 and many important unmanned space exploration flights. And that Folks concludes today's lesson in history..

That chip is an amazing tiny black box!

'I love the BPS space merch will make literally every aspects of your life better' description 😄

5:21 ok but can we talk about how good that tracking is

It must've been impressive seeing that HPR take off in person. Also I gotta mention how the AVA board was bent and not snapped, that's a high quality PCB right there!

Glad you’re back, Joe. You inspired me to get into electronics. I’m a cabinet maker by trade, but I’ve made a few simple robots now and am saving up for a computer so I can try my hand a coding. Keep doing what you love.

Joe, that was a mortar round, and f*cking awsome, hopefully it's an ICBM next time

Great content, i know its gonna be good before it starts!!

Looking forward to all your flights this year. Fligh high and safely!

It is so great to see a smile on your face again and sharing in the joy you obviously have doing this. Even in the face of a failure. Very proud of you for making changes in your life so that you enjoy this again and allow us to enjoy it as well.

This is by far my favorite KZfaq channel. I can’t wait for future flights with AVA! Maybe you could try to figure out how to use AVA to make it correct itself and stay straight up on a high altitude test(kind of like past videos). I’m trying to work on that myself!

How viable would it be to coat the components in some kind of glow-in-the-dark paint, or something that stands out under UV light? That way you could find any lost components far quicker and more reliably.

A screen grab from 15:58 would make for a cool poster/print to hang on the wall, for posterity. All kidding aside, great video, and thanks so much for sharing. It's when things go wrong that you learn the most... so thanks for sharing that learning experience with us, despite the pain. It's incredibly educational. Thanks for that.

Congrats on the sponsor! Great video, mate. It's good to see you back in my sub feed. Take care and godspeed!

I am so glad you’re back😀

He made me go to the bps website to see if he was actually selling AVA

Didn't knew you were back from your brake, glad to see you back and feeling better

absolutely loved this video! glad to see you back and looking vibrant

"If you must crash, at least crash spectacularly!" (somebody ... sometime ... probably) What a crash that was - lawn dart x1000!

Heeessss baaaaack!

Truly one of the most amazing channels I've seen during my 6 years on KZfaq, fantastic. Keep it going man.

Also that was an ingenious move on the flash chip, I may have to use that! You can't have success without failure so fail on with pride my friend! Success is right around the corner and we'll all keep watching so you get paid for it 👍

What's that plotting software at 10:30 called? I'd like to use that myself 🙂

press F to pay respect for AVA

I love your channel, I learn so much from it. Everything is so interesting.

Mate, I find your videos fascinating! Can't wait for the next update and much love from England :)

I have a friend named Ava and I chuckled every 20 seconds

Woot woot he back 2 weeks in a row. Already saw this on the second channel. Also, 3:20, you mean deploy chutes and fire charges? You said it the other way around.

FINALLY A BPS VIDEO!!!!!! Thanks!

So glad you’re putting out content again!!

5:20 I'm having so many flashbacks to past rocket launches

OMG Iwas hoping for this

Love your vids !

It is really exciting to see you making this kind of videos again. It is just fuking amazing lol 😆. All the best for your project from Brazil 🇧🇷

eat sleep scrub repeat! XD! i love those NSF shirts

Which software do you use for analyzing the data? Looks very cool!

I am continually impressed by what you do.

These videos are so cool. Glad you're back from the break

Cool Video! thank you. What software do you use to display the logging data? If its self written - can you tell the plotting lib?

Wow I'm 11 year's old and u have inspired me to make model rockets i always loved space i do astronomy I'm gonna have my first rocket flight soon i just need to design it

Thank you for the video, Joe! Happy to see you back!

In Thrust We Bust

What's the name of the data visualization software you're using?

Nice one! Thanks for sharing! By the way, what is the software you are using to analyze the plots?!

Thanks as ever for your enjoyable, informative and inspiring videos.

Great video Joe! It's mindblowing how you recovered the data. Btw, I'm extremely glad to see a sponsored video

A flash chip!? That's great! I've been trying to use an SD card to write in real time, but there are sometimes huge delays as the card writer hits a memory boundary, now I want to give this a try! What flash chip do you use? Great video as always. I love a good unplanned disassembly!

When do you plan on using liquid fuel? you've talked about it a bit so I've been wondering when that might happen

Oh my goodness there's so much foreshadowing in this video... I love it!

Sorry to see the crash landing, but love to see the amazing work you do! Keep it up! :)

He is so dedicated to be like Elon that he did the "SN8-9 trick"

everyone saying "we have the data, thats all we need" when their rocket crashes

So nice having you back Joe! I always learn and laugh every video.

Keep up the great work and videos coming BPS!

one of the first for the first time!!!!! this never happens to me! Thank you YT gods!

Question: Why is the telemetry interface NOT in light mode? Thanks.

i love this story of collecting the data from the broken bits. amazing work.

You're a great storyteller. Really enjoying your progress! :D

This guy legit could build a guided missile of he wanted

Ayo Joey are you ok? Edit: Yk just asking well I'm fine btw

I always learn so much from these videos! Thanks Joe :)

He looks so much better now after his break.

Am I the only one who feels like this man looks just like younger Elon?

That's one of the coolest data recovery I ever seen ! From the research betweens the corn feet to the fact that this was flying minutes before ! Love that. (I can imagine that it was more or less the same process for SN8 and SN9 at spacex)

I love your videos! Watching them is just stunning! :0

I've lost expensive avionics on ballistic impacts and after 50+ years I finally had enough. I built myself a rocket 'Black Box' similar to what airliners carry. It was simply a thick aluminum housing with padding for the avionic boards. Fly my 4" rocket 6 times and it worked great every time but you can't really test to see if it works or not unless you crash the rocket. On the 7th flight, the day was hot, over 110F, and people were wanting to leave so I hastily loaded the rocket and off it went. As soon as it arced over at apogee I remember I forgot to arm the flight computers. Down it came about a half-mile out on the range and no luck finding it. A few months later while out searching for the rocket of one of the schools I mentor, one of the students started yelling and waving his arms in the air. He found my rocket (the nozzle was sticking out of the ground). We marked the location, found their rocket and then went back with a shovel to dig mine out. The nose cone and recovery bay were smashed with the chute shredded, the av-bay black powder wells and U-bolts were smashed into the bulkheads as was 8 inches of the motor case. When I got home, I ground off the smashed U-bolt and althread nuts so I could remove the bulkhead. I pulled out the electronic guts and connected a new battery. They beeped out the 8,000' altitude and lived to get launched on other flights. It does add some additional weight but saved some $$$ on replacing avionics.

Welcome back! Hope you’re feeling better

Great to see you back at it.

Good to see you back!

First time I’m actually excited for a sponsor advertisement