Civilian Space Exploration Team

I didn’t fly many rockets between LDRS in Argonia in 1999 (when I was 15) and the first year of NASA’s University Student Launch Initiative competition (when I was in my fourth of five years in college). I also didn’t keep up with the rocketry hobby/industry online as much during that time, so I missed [...]

Chase Rockets

I just saw a few videos posted on The Rocketry Forum by Bob (see his YouTube channel). The basic idea is to launch a rocket (in this case, an Aerotech Mirage kit) with an onboard video camera either immediately before or after another rocket is launched, with the goal being to catch the other rocket [...]

LDRS 28 Videos

The rocketeers of YouTube have a ton of great videos up from LDRS 28 in Potter, NY. Here are a few highlights!

First, Neil Brown’s DINOSAURS ROCK-et EXTREME. 218 lbs on a Loki N4500 and three Loki L1400’s :

Onboard video from a full-scale Astrobee D on a Loki M1882:

Dan Michael’s 3/4 scale [...]

Two Q Motors

[I guess I have basically two types of posts around here -> ones about the cool stuff I'm building/flying, and ones about the really cool stuff other people are flying. This is the latter.]

I’m slowing going through YouTube and the interwebs to find all the awesome projects that were flown somewhere, sometime that I’ve never [...]