--- title: Photographing Rocket Chute Deployment At 10 Km | daily.dev description: BPS.space (Joe) is building a custom rocket selfie camera designed to eject from a high-power rocket at apogee (~10 km) and photograph chute deployment. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/photographing-rocket-chute-deployment-at-10-km-sjnpfaos4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Photographing Rocket Chute Deployment At 10 Km | daily.dev og:description: BPS.space (Joe) is building a custom rocket selfie camera designed to eject from a high-power rocket at apogee (~10 km) and photograph chute deployment. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/photographing-rocket-chute-deployment-at-10-km-sjnpfaos4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sjNPFaos4.png og:image:alt: Photographing Rocket Chute Deployment At 10 Km og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Photographing Rocket Chute Deployment At 10 Km **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary BPS.space (Joe) is building a custom rocket selfie camera designed to eject from a high-power rocket at apogee (~10 km) and photograph chute deployment. The camera uses a deconstructed GoPro on a spring-and-servo sled, but tiny torques caused unpredictable pointing. After multiple iterations, Joe settled on a semi-active stabilization system using a brass weight on a small motor to keep the camera oriented toward the rocket. The camera has no parachute, so mass is kept low to limit terminal velocity impact damage. The design is still pre-flight but represents a meaningful engineering compromise. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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