Avionics

AFC-100 “Alcyone”

Alcyone is my vision for what a flight computer should be: extensible, accessible, and adaptable to any airframe. Built around the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 and the powerful RP2350 microcontroller, Alcyone is a robust architecture with high performance and amazing software compatibility. Alcyone will begin flight testing on Chroma Mk1 in 2026.

Flight Unified Command and Control/Avionics Support System (FUCC/ASS)

FUCC/ASS is the ground-side companion for AFC flight computers that offers a rapidly deployable hardware and software suite for flight command and control, real-time telemetry monitoring, and tracking.

Chroma Flight Test Program

Mk1: A simple, reliable test bed

Chroma Mk1 is a TRA L2+ capable rocket built around a 54mm airframe that is designed from the ground up for reliable certification, design validation, and high-G testing.

Mk1.x: An advanced prototyping platform

Chroma Mk1.x (where “x” denotes the variant) uses a stretched Mk1 airframe for increased payload space and larger motors, thus enabling higher, faster flights for flight computer development.

Mk2 & Mk2U: High-Mach workhorses

Chroma Mk2 is a high-Mach flight platform fusing the Mk1 heritage platform with advanced avionics and payload capabilities. Mk2U is a variant optimized for use as an upper stage.

Mk0U: A multi-stage pathfinder

Chroma Mk0U is a 38mm rocket built from the start to be an upper stage, utilizing the larger Chroma rockets as boosters to prove out staging systems in preparation of Chroma Mk2U flying on larger rockets.

Propulsion

ALEX: Alcohol Liquid Enigne (Experimental)

ALEX is an IPA/Nitrous regeneratively cooled rocket engine putting out 400N of thrust.