A accurate altimeter sensor will be used as a fail safe to eject off the rocket. If the altimeter sensor is reading an appropriate height but the timed event lines have not powered on, then our payload deck’s Arduino Mega will send a signal to the capsule’s microcontroller. The signal will determine an error message that will be sent to us via Iridium. The message will say that our payload deck’s Arduino Mega could not read in timed event line. Our program will end and stop all operations. We need the timed event lines to continue on with the rest of our code if they are not powered on then there is no point!
A accurate altimeter sensor will be used as a fail safe to eject off the rocket. If the altimeter sensor is reading an appropriate height but the timed event lines have not powered on, then our payload deck’s Arduino Mega will send a signal to the capsule’s microcontroller. The signal will determine an error message that will be sent to us via Iridium. The message will say that our payload deck’s Arduino Mega could not read in timed event line. Our program will end and stop all operations. We need the timed event lines to continue on with the rest of our code if they are not powered on then there is no point!