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2 Version 0.8 offers a major upgrade in the AltosUI
3 interface. Significant new features include:
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5 Post-flight graphing tool. This lets you explore the behaviour
6 of your rocket after flight with a scroll-able and zoom-able
7 chart showing the altitude, speed and acceleration of the
8 airframe along with events recorded by the flight computer. You
9 can export graphs to PNG files, or print them directly.
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11 Real-time moving map which overlays the in-progress flight on
12 satellite imagery fetched from Google Maps. This lets you see in
13 pictures where your rocket has landed, allowing you to plan
14 recovery activities more accurately.
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16 Wireless recovery system testing. Prep your rocket for flight
17 and test fire the deployment charges to make sure things work as
18 expected. All without threading wires through holes in your
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21 Optimized flight status displays. Each flight state now has it's
22 own custom 'tab' in the flight monitoring window so you can
23 focus on the most important details. Pre-flight, the system
24 shows a set of red/green status indicators for battery voltage,
25 apogee/main igniter continutity and GPS reception. Wait until
26 they're all green and your rocket is ready for flight. There are
27 also tabs for ascent, descent and landing along with the
28 original tabular view of the data.
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30 Monitor multiple flights simultaneously. If you have more than
31 one TeleDongle, you can monitor a flight with each one on the
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34 Automatic flight monitoring at startup. Plug TeleDongle into the
35 machine before starting AltosUI and it will automatically
36 connect to it and prepare to monitor a flight.
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38 Exports Google Earth flight tracks. Using the Keyhole Markup
39 Language (.kml) file format, this provides a 3D view of your
40 rocket flight through the Google Earth program.
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