Armadillo Aerospace News: Still not there

A short report this time, because I have a cold, and we still haven’t gotten perfect success with the spark ignition.
We switched to the MSD-10pro ignition system, which has a nearly 5x hotter spark, but that doesn’t seem to effect anything.
We have the data acquisition system set up so we can monitor two temperatures and two pressures simultaneously, but we have been focusing on open catalyst ignition tests lately.
We tried some longer reach spark plugs, with no real benefit. Read More