  The PAANDA experiment was conceived to characterize the acceleration ambient
of a rocket launched microgravity platform, specially the microgravity phase.
The recorded data was transmitted to ground stations, leading to loss of
telemetry information sent during the reentry period. Traditionally, an
error-correcting code for this channel consists of a block code with very large
block size to protect against long periods of data loss. Instead, we propose
the use of digital fountain codes along with conventional Reed-Solomon block
codes to protect against long and short burst error periods, respectively.
Aiming to use this approach for a second version of PAANDA to prevent data
corruption, we propose a model for the communication channel based on
information extracted from Cum\~a II's telemetry data, and simulate the
performance of our proposed error-correcting code under this channel model.
Simulation results show that nearly all telemetry data can be recovered,
including data from the reentry period.
