{"id":5408,"date":"2013-07-08T01:46:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T01:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/?p=5408"},"modified":"2013-07-08T01:46:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T01:46:42","slug":"change-and-consistency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/?p=5408","title":{"rendered":"Change and Consistency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"userContent\">The High Rack is  our workhorse test vehicle. Even though it has the held on to the same  basic configuration I was stuck this morning looking at Away 25 from  2004 how much has changed. The foam fins have been replaced<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> by nylon ones stretched over a carbon frame, Those three pound each  (there&#8217;s two!) Hi-8 camcorders are no more, on top the balloon cutaway  pyros wrapped in fiberglass insulation have been replace by a neat  plastic box with nichrome string cutters, I shudder thinking about that  fin mounted parachute with the ground commanded release strap. The  parachute auto deploy baskets we use now are bulkier but don&#8217;t require  any input from anywhere to work. The standard upper deck is no where to  be seen on this old guy. From the antennas I can tell this was our old  second generation command and control system. We&#8217;re on gen five now and  on the verge of moving to all satellite\/internet command systems. I  think there are about 40 other changes since 2004. With all that from  100 feet away after launch it&#8217;s still our old reliable cargo hauler to  the edge of space. I hope we fly a few hundred more.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"userContent\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Away25_Away81_combo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5409\" title=\"Away25_Away81_combo\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Away25_Away81_combo-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Rack is our workhorse test vehicle. Even though it has the held on to the same basic configuration I was stuck this morning looking at Away 25 from 2004 how much has changed. The foam fins have been replaced by nylon ones stretched over a carbon frame, Those three pound each (there&#8217;s two!) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}