@Freshmeat Alright so i installed a serial monitor program and shot a rocket into space, and the entire time the serial port was being spammed with packet, even when the arduino cut out. So maybe the usb to serial on the arduino gets freaked out after too many packets and starts denying them? Im going to try and do away with the usb cable and connect the rx and tx pins on the arduino to an actual serial port on my computer and see what happenes then.