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If you want improve a model rocket’s performance, all the common options come with serious trade-offs: you could increase the motor’s size, which raises safety issues, or you could cut …read more Continue reading Tube Launch Boosts Rocket’s Performance
Lightning, despite being a common and readily-detected phenomenon, is nevertheless difficult to study. One reason is the difficulty of predicting when and where lightning will strike; tall structures do attract …read more Continue reading Triggering Lightning with a Rocket
Consumer-grade 3D printers are useful for lots of things, but they kind of fall down when it comes to making stuff that survives high temperatures. [Mr. More Gooder] wasn’t deterred …read more Continue reading Water-cooling a 3D Printed Rocket Isn’t Quite Practical
For those who haven’t been following along, [BPS.space] aka [Joe] is on a journey to launch a home-built rocket past the Kármán line where it will officially reach outer space. …read more Continue reading Photographing Rocket Chute Deployment at 10 km
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 …read more Continue reading Rocket Roll Control, The Old Fashioned Way
Australia is known for great beaches, top-tier coffee, and a laidback approach to life that really doesn’t square with all the rules and regulations that exist Down Under. What it …read more Continue reading Australia’s Space Program Finally Gets Off The Pad, But Only Barely
The aerospike engine holds great promise for spaceflight, but for various reasons, has remained slightly out of reach for decades. But thanks to Leap 71, the technology has moved one …read more Continue reading Generatively-Designed Aerospike Test Fired
As we watched the latest SpaceX Starship rocket test end in a spectacular explosion, we might have missed the news from Japan of a different rocket passing a successful test. …read more Continue reading There’s A New Reusable Rocket, And It’s A Honda
The list of countries to achieve their own successful orbital space launch is a short one, almost as small as the exclusive club of states that possess nuclear weapons. The …read more Continue reading Australia’s Steady March Towards Space
When it comes to space exploration, we often think of billion-dollar projects—NASA’s Artemis missions, ESA’s Mars rovers, or China’s Tiangong station. Yet, a group of U.S. students at USC’s Rocket …read more Continue reading Aftershock II: How Students Shattered 20-Year Amateur Rocket Records