Altimeter cloud: Flight

Our altimeters

Our altimeters are designed to be easy to use, reliable, accurate and affordable. A mission that seems unlikely all together but we've found is perfectly achievable.

For example, with our entry level Mercury you simply need to turn it on before your flight and that's it! It will record your flight and turn itself off once it's saved the data.

After flying just login to the devices WiFi on your phone, or put it into WiFi mode and have it upload your flights to the Altimeter Cloud all by itself to view the flight data.

The Mercury V1

The Mercury is a small, smart altimeter that easily fits in rockets that are at least 18mm in diameter (22mm in it's default case). It is extremely easy to use and you simply need to turn it on and then fly your rocket.

After your flight, you can configure the altimeter WiFi settings so that it will automatically upload your data to the Altimeter Cloud for you to view. You can also view the data by connecting your phone or computer to the Mercuries access point WiFi, or flight summaries via USB Serial.

The Mercury offers plenty of data to analyse too, from the highly accurate pressure altitude to the 3-axis 32G accelerometer, 2000 dgs gyroscope and lots of calculated figures. These include accurate launch time detection, motor burnout, apogee, landing time and a log of the devices output triggers amongst many others.

Setting up WiFi takes only a minute and your device will then upload and show you charts of your data here on the Altimeter Cloud.

Full details & Manual

Specifications & features

This is a brief summary of the main features of the Mercury altimeter

Dimensions (in case)

39.5mm x 19.2mm x 13.9mm

Dimensions (out of case)

30mm x 17mm x 12.3mm

Weight (in case)

7.35g

Weight (out of case)

4.58g

Battery capacity

50mAh, 3.7v

Battery life (flight mode)

> 4 hours

USB port

USB-C

Sample rate

32 or 16 samples/second

Max samples per flight

10200

Max record time / flight

10m 35s @ 16 sps

Device type

Model rocketry component

More specifications

Pressure sensor (Altitude)

The BMP390 pressure sensor offers impressive accuracy down to 300 hPa of pressure, this lets the Mercury get a precise altitude up to around 9500 meters (31,000 feet).

Absolute pressure accuracy:

±0.50 hPa/mbar

Relative pressure accuracy:

±0.03 hPa/mbar

Relative altitude accuracy:

±0.25 meters

Maximum rated altitude:

~9200 meters, 30183 feet

Accelerometer & Gyroscope

The LSM6DSO32 inertial module offers 3-axis of 32G acceleration and 3-axis of Gyroscope measurements. It is designed with high robustness to mechanical shock which should help in case of accidents.

Acceleration range:

±32G

Gyroscope range:

±2000 dps

Acceleration tolerance:

±0.5%

Gyroscope tolerance:

±0.5%

Educational learning

Our boards can be used as development or educational boards as well. We supply all the details to start programming them yourself. Of course, you can always put the default software back on at any time should you choose.

Mercury V1 guide

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