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Calculating a flights motor impulse from the flight data

Every IMU flight on Altimeter Cloud draws the motor’s thrust curve from the flight’s own data. This article explains how: what an accelerometer actually measures, why gravity never appears in it, how the coast after burnout calibrates the rocket’s drag, why the speed has to come…

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Neil Bowen18 Oct 2026