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I know it’s been done but I want to know how many and also stuff like if it was a solo thing. Edit I mean a amateur HPR rocket that goes higher than 100km
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Are you looking for purely amateur efforts or are you including corporations and/or universities?I know it’s been done but I want to know how many and also stuff like if it was a solo thing. Edit I mean a HPR rocket that goes higher than 100km
Amateur edited for clarityAre you looking for purely amateur efforts or are you including corporations and/or universities?
It’s ok if sponsors I just don’t want a university or something just 1 guy or girl.On the contrary - I don't think it's been done yet by true amateurs.
I mean .... people who self-funded (no sponsors) their efforts.... people who are not in the rocket biz.
Go Fast doesn't qualify IMO.
I think you will be eating that some day…
Anything like that is a team effortIt’s ok if sponsors I just don’t want a university or something just 1 guy or girl.
Not if you have enough time on your hands! The reason I was asking is BPS space is on that path and I assumed it has been done before apparently not.Anything like that is a team effort
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And although the lead is Joe, he definitely has some helping hands. If you follow his 'Simplex" motor build, he has to keep going to other people to get the propellant mixed and debubbled. Although you *think* you can do it "alone", it's going to be more than one person assisting. Just loading the rocket onto the tower is going to take 4 people, then there's telemetry, tracking, driving duties, helping to set up the tent in the desert, yadda yadda. You're never doing anything that big by yourself. You'll need multiple vehicles just to drag all the crap you'll need out into the middle of nowhere. You need an FAA waiver. Heck, you probably need FAA approval to launch anything that's going that high.BPS space is on that path
What was it? Also true.And although the lead is Joe, he definitely has some helping hands. If you follow his 'Simplex" motor build, he has to keep going to other people to get the propellant mixed and debubbled. Although you *think* you can do it "alone", it's going to be more than one person assisting. Just loading the rocket onto the tower is going to take 4 people, then there's telemetry, tracking, driving duties, helping to set up the tent in the desert, yadda yadda. You're never doing anything that big by yourself. You'll need multiple vehicles just to drag all the crap you'll need out into the middle of nowhere. You need an FAA waiver. Heck, you probably need FAA approval to launch anything that's going that high.
Back in college I made a 30-minute animated film "by myself", but if you read the end the credits, it's really more than 30 people contributing to the overall effort, although without a doubt, it was my film since I was doing the writing, directing, producing, most of the animation, cel-painting, backgrounds, co-ordination, and ordering the pizza. But big projects always have multiple sets of hands.
A singular person doing a project like this seems sad, lonely and a waste of valuable resources.It’s ok if sponsors I just don’t want a university or something just 1 guy or girl.
Teams are OK. Self-funded teams. I doubt a single person will ever do it.
But if they are taking money from entities outside the team they are sponsored and therefore being "paid" in some fashion which makes them "pro's" in my book.
University teams don't count either IMO - they are using facilities and equipment that "regular" people do not have access to - also getting credit for their work is a type of payment. It becomes their "job."
I know it’s been done but I want to know how many and also stuff like if it was a solo thing. Edit I mean a amateur HPR rocket that goes higher than 100km
On the contrary - I don't think it's been done yet by true amateurs.
I mean .... people who self-funded (no sponsors) their efforts.... people who are not in the rocket biz.
Go Fast doesn't qualify IMO.
With over $1M spent and corporate logo's all over the vehicle, I'd say not. But clearly I've not seen the books.Ky was self funded was he not?
With over $1M spent and corporate logo's all over the vehicle, I'd say not. But clearly I've not seen the books.
I do not recall corp logos on Ky's rocket. Ky has millions himself so was mostly self funded as far as I knew. I have his book somewhere , but with all the books and papers I have not something I can find anymore... I saw his recovered payload in Geneseo NY the next year at LDRS and even had a Pic with me next to it.
Who’s Ky?It was pretty typical for Ky to have sponsors on the big flights. The first I recall was the Joe Boxer rocket. That was Ky, wasn't it?
Who’s Ky?
Fuscient was also the backup sponsor for the 2004 Go Fast rocket.I do not recall corp logos on Ky's rocket. Ky has millions himself so was mostly self funded as far as I knew. I have his book somewhere , but with all the books and papers I have not something I can find anymore... I saw his recovered payload in Geneseo NY the next year at LDRS and even had a Pic with me next to it.
GoFast rocket a documented 72 miles up
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