USCRPL's Aftershock II becomes Highest and Fastest amateur …
Nov 15, 2024 · Aftershock II has officially become the highest and fastest amateur rocket of all time! Following its successful launch and recovery on October 20, 2024, data from the on-board avionics unit was collected and analyzed to reconstruct the rocket’s flight path. After a thorough internal review, the...
ANNOUNCEMENT: OpenRocket 24.12 beta 1 is now available for …
Jul 14, 2015 · Here is a bug I've just recently noticed in 23.09 and which isn't fixed in the beta. On a Mac, if dark mode is enabled, printing the design info places a dark background behind a portion of the graphic of the rocket in the generated PDF (as shown below using the included example model rocket file). View attachment 684543
AIM XTRA | Rocketry Forum - Model Rocketry Forums
Oct 20, 2024 · Has anyone heard of high-altitude flights (over 100k ft) that used the AIM XTRA for deployment events? I am looking to launch a 2-stage rocket to ~150k ft and am having trouble finding reliable cheaper alternatives to the Kate-3. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
Diy E-match or igniter | Rocketry Forum - Model Rocketry Forums
Apr 23, 2021 · The next small bottle of dried out first fire pyrogen I had I stuffed a standard rocket motor igniter in and buried it into the ground with a large rock on top of it. Pushed the button on my 12V launch system and nary a pop. Dug it up and disposed of the glass fragments. One gets smarter with experience. Kurt Savegnago
Rocket Track - Open Source GPS Tracker for Smartphones
May 28, 2013 · The GPS receiver in the rocket sends the current position over the radio link to the base station, which in turn relays the data to a smartphone for display. The simplest, most universal interface for external devices available on smartphones is Bluetooth.
Non-US Person using a >5lb motor (ITAR) - rocketryforum.com
Dec 30, 2020 · Does that lie outside the law? Practically all teams just contact a vendor, make a payment, and collect it in the U.S. The flyer of record is technically the end-recipient/user of the M/N/O rocket motor, but ultimately the foreign team is the entity that purchases, and sometimes a foreign L3 member is the flyer of record. Just wanna avoid trouble.
Best rocket parachute folding method? - Rocketry Forum
Jun 14, 2023 · I would like to hear some different rocketeers methods of folding chutes. I always use the Carlisle method, which Is pictured in the handbook of model rocketry, but I would like to see other's methods. Maybe some specific "best for" …
Open Rocket Questions Regarding Fins - Rocketry Forum
Feb 20, 2022 · Regarding the terms: honestly, if you just play with the values and look at the effect on the rocket side view you ought to be able to figure it all out in like 10 seconds. This diagram (from the thread that @Titan II posted) shows the dimensional parameters:
Open Rocket Stability Number - Model Rocketry Forums
Apr 25, 2014 · Building BT-60 size rocket. Reply. rharshberger Well-Known Member. Joined Oct 13, 2014 Messages 13,168 ...
Yard Sale / Wanted | Rocketry Forum - Model Rocketry Forums
Apr 12, 2012 · If you have a personal rocketry-related item for sale, or that you're looking for, this is where you list it. These are for one time sales items, no business sales. To post you must either be a member for 30 days AND have 20 posts OR be a Supporting Member.