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USC Rocket Propulsion Lab
« on: 06/01/2019 03:56 am »
Meet the First College Students to Launch a Rocket Into Space | WIRED


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Published on May 31, 2019

A team from the University of Southern California's Rocket Propulsion Laboratory became the first student team to launch a rocket into space. WIRED's Arielle Pardes spoke with Neil Tewksbury, the team's Lead Operations Officer, about what it took to make it happen.

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Re: USC ROCKET PROPULSION LAB
« Reply #1 on: 06/01/2019 06:40 am »
USC Video. Traveller IV launched on 21 April 2019 and reached 103,571 m with 90% certainty using 81.6 kg of solid propellant. Traveller III had launched on 29 September 2018, but the parachute failed to deploy due to the avionics not being turned on.

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Re: USC ROCKET PROPULSION LAB
« Reply #2 on: 06/01/2019 10:13 am »
USC Video. Traveller IV launched on 21 April 2019 and reached 103,571 m with 90% certainty using 81.6 kg of solid propellant. Traveller III had launched on 29 September 2018, but the parachute failed to deploy due to the avionics not being turned on.
For the students involved this was a tremendous achievement both in the event and the learning of how to go about making it happen.

A job very well done.
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Re: USC Rocket Propulsion Lab
« Reply #3 on: 05/24/2023 03:40 am »
....bump for new video

Fireball - A Documentary Film

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A documentary following the students of the USC Rocket Propulsion Lab, the first student group to successfully launch a rocket into space, embark on their next mission - an attempt to build a high-altitude rocket that gets the club and their spaceshots back on track.


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Re: USC Rocket Propulsion Lab
« Reply #4 on: 05/25/2023 07:48 am »
Fireball launched on 1 April and reach an altitude of about 43 km. Some screen grabs of the launch.

http://www.uscrpl.com/fireball-1
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Re: USC Rocket Propulsion Lab
« Reply #5 on: 10/24/2023 07:50 am »
Shockwave Static Fire (3,796 lbf / 45,698 lbf-s)

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Shockwave is the Most Powerful Solid-rocket Motor Ever Fired by Students! As well as the Most Powerful Composite-Case Solid-rocket Motor Ever Fired by Amateurs'!

Motor Classification: R-class
Thrust: 4,221 lbf (Vacuum) / 3,796 lbf (Sea-level)
Chamber Pressure: 831 psi
Burn Time: 16 s
Total Impulse: 53,059 lbf-s (Vacuum) / 45,698 lbf-s (Sea-level)
Specific Impulse: 266 s (Vacuum) / 229 s (Sea-level)
Propellant mass: 199 lbm

Note: Smoke from case was not a result of combustion chamber leakage and did not affect the structural integrity of the CFRP case.


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