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Crashing rockets and recovering data from damaged flash chips
In Spring 2020, during IAP, the MIT Rocket team launched multiple rockets at the FAR site in the Mojave desert in California. The second stage of the staging demonstrator rocket did not deploy parachutes and crashed in the desert.
Without parachutes, the rocket dropped unchecked and burried itself 3 meters underground. After desoldering the chip, I noticed that 2 corners with pads were broken off. Suprisingly this worked and I was able to dump the flash memory using my trusty Flashcat USB reader.
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