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USC students set altitude and speed records in amateur rocketry

On 20 October 2024, in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, the University of Southern California’s Rocket Propulsion Lab (USCRPL) ...
Hackaday

A Simple Simulator For Model Rocket Performance

When building a model rocket, it can be fun to get into the maths of it all—calculating the expected performance of your build, and then seeing how it measures up in the real world. To aid in that ...
Hackaday

Rocket Roll Control, The Old Fashioned Way

The vast majority of model rockets go vaguely up and float vaguely downwards without a lot of control. However, [newaysfactory] built a few rockets that were altogether more precise in their flight, ...
The New York Times

These Rocketry Hobbyists Are Not Just Playing Around

At a rocketry club’s monthly launch, some of the projectiles flew as high as 4,500 feet, carrying onboard cameras, GPS trackers and altimeter-activated parachutes. At a rocketry club’s monthly launch, ...
Forbes

Confessions Of A ‘60s Amateur Rocketeer—Estes Models, To Be Precise

In the sixties and early seventies, space was all the rage with the Cold War competition to determine who would walk on the moon first, America or the USSR. As such, model rocketry was booming. Marc ...