Sep 20, 2023SC Rocketry is proud to announce the successful double firing of Starsailor's flight engine Stewart! The Stewart engine still holds the world record for the most powerful liquid rocket engine ever built and tested by a university team with a whopping 40kN of thrust.As part of the Launch Canada competition in Timmins, Ontario, SCRD test fired their engine TWICE for 10 seconds each! This is the longest run time the team has ever performed. This is a major step towards obtaining launch authorization from Transport Canada, as tests like these provide us with the data required to properly model Starsailor's flight path.We would like to extend a massive thank you to the organizations who made this possible. Thank you to Launch Canada for hosting us at the competition, thank you to the incredible firefighters from Mattagami First Nation who took time out of their day to ensure our tests went well, and thank you especially to each and every member of the SC Rocketry team, without which none of this would have happened!
Jan 28, 2023The video features a telemetry overlay of a record breaking amateur rocket flight to 293,000 ft. Strap yourself in and enjoy gauges displaying altitude, speed, Mach number, and g-loads. All of this data was captured by the on-board avionics which featured a Kate 3.0 flight computer from Multitronix. The camera taking the on-board video is a GoPro Hero 9 with 4.35mm lens. The GoPro was modified by the company Back-Bone Gear Inc. located in Ontario Canada.
SOAR is an abbreviation for “Single-stage Operational Assessment of Red Kite”, and is a project between the German space agency DLR and Bayern-Chemie GmbH which aims to develop a new solid fueled rocket motor called Red Kite.
NASA Wallops to Support Sounding Rocket LaunchesTwo sounding rockets are scheduled to launch for the Department of Defense from NASA’s launch range at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The launch window is Nov. 15-17, 2023. No launch times will be provided.No real-time launch status updates will be available. The launches will not be livestreamed.The rocket launches are expected to be visible from the Chesapeake Bay region.
Some screen captures of SOAR.
QuoteNASA Wallops to Support Sounding Rocket LaunchesTwo sounding rockets are scheduled to launch for the Department of Defense from NASA’s launch range at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The launch window is Nov. 15-17, 2023. No launch times will be provided.No real-time launch status updates will be available. The launches will not be livestreamed.The rocket launches are expected to be visible from the Chesapeake Bay region.
NASA Wallops Supports Hypersonic Rocket LaunchesNASA’s Wallops Flight Facility supported the launch of two suborbital sounding rockets on Nov. 15, 2023, for Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP), and the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), in coordination with Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH TB).This subscale test was executed by Sandia National Laboratories. Data collected from this test will be used to inform the development of the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS), MDA’s hypersonic defensive capability, and to mature other hypersonic technologies.
Can anyone identify the rocket in the picture? Thanks
Quote from: Fmedici on 11/19/2023 07:37 amCan anyone identify the rocket in the picture? ThanksIt appears to be a Terrier Terrier Improved Malemute combination.IIRC, this combination has not flown before.
The first three H4H launches in Oct 2021 appeared to use two-stage Terrier Improved Malemute rockets.
Dec 4, 2023At 08:30 on December 2nd 2023, the MAIUS-2 rocket was launched from the Esrange Space Center outside Kiruna. In the MAIUS-2 rocket campaign, the German space agency DLR continues its research into what is known as the Bose-Einstein condensate.
Launch of MAIUS from Esrange Space CenterQuoteDec 4, 2023At 08:30 on December 2nd 2023, the MAIUS-2 rocket was launched from the Esrange Space Center outside Kiruna. In the MAIUS-2 rocket campaign, the German space agency DLR continues its research into what is known as the Bose-Einstein condensate.
Quote from: catdlr on 12/04/2023 04:20 pmLaunch of MAIUS from Esrange Space CenterQuoteDec 4, 2023At 08:30 on December 2nd 2023, the MAIUS-2 rocket was launched from the Esrange Space Center outside Kiruna. In the MAIUS-2 rocket campaign, the German space agency DLR continues its research into what is known as the Bose-Einstein condensate.Is it me or this is the first launch from the Skylark tower in quite a while?
Quote from: jcm on 11/20/2023 02:45 am The first three H4H launches in Oct 2021 appeared to use two-stage Terrier Improved Malemute rockets.Are you sure? They look like Terrier Malemute's to me.https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1899496
Today the first group of the T-Minus launch team left for a road trip: up to the High North, to Esrange Space Center.They bring the T-Minus mobile launcher, from which we will conduct two launches of the T-Minus DART to space next week. This is done in the PRIME campaign. The rockets will carry scientific payloads made by the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), to study the upper atmosphere.The rockets will be launched from the newly established Launch Complex 3 at Esrange, from which future orbital missions will be launched. T-Minus will have the honour to use the brand new Launch Vehicle Integration Building for preparations as well as Pad 3A for placing the mobile launcher.#TME #Rocket #DART #KTH #Esrange
Swedish Space Corporation has an incoming launch window stretching from 5 to 11 February. The safety notice mentions five expected rocket launches. Two of them should be TEXUS 59 and TEXUS 60 (initially scheduled for January per their Rocket and Balloon Activities page), the other three T-MINUS Dart launches.
