SLS with TVC (not mine, had to share)

I came acroos this on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/a1cht4/awesome_space_launch_system_model_rocket/
Pretty sweet an SLS scale model with side boosters and no fins.




Exploration Ground Systems Launch Vehicle Integration Engineer Robert Cook built his very own version of NASA's Space Launch System! Congrats on the rocket, Rob!
"The whole thing is stabilized by a quadcopter control board and a movable engine mount that I designed and 3D printed. Most of the parts are 3D printed and screwed into the body tube. I started the project back in March and had my first launch in October which is seen in the video. It has a gyroscope, accelerometer, and altimeter that tells it where to point and when to open the parachutes. In my first flight, the boosters failed to separate but the next flight will hopefully fly even higher with a full booster separation." - Rob

gwh said:

I came acroos this on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/a1cht4/awesome_space_launch_system_model_rocket/
Pretty sweet an SLS scale model with side boosters and no fins.




Exploration Ground Systems Launch Vehicle Integration Engineer Robert Cook built his very own version of NASA's Space Launch System! Congrats on the rocket, Rob!
"The whole thing is stabilized by a quadcopter control board and a movable engine mount that I designed and 3D printed. Most of the parts are 3D printed and screwed into the body tube. I started the project back in March and had my first launch in October which is seen in the video. It has a gyroscope, accelerometer, and altimeter that tells it where to point and when to open the parachutes. In my first flight, the boosters failed to separate but the next flight will hopefully fly even higher with a full booster separation." - Rob

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This is fantastic, thank you for sharing!

That is fantastic--thanks for the share. I'd love to see someone produce a commercial kit version of this. Have to believe that things like this are the future of the hobby.

lowga said:

That is fantastic--thanks for the share. I'd love to see someone produce a commercial kit version of this. Have to believe that things like this are the future of the hobby.

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For an off the shelf thrust vectoring kit go here: www.bps.space
^the Falcon Heavy model the creator did makes this SLS model look pretty simplistic in comparison.

You still need to build the actual rocket, but that's the fun part anyway

Now, if you could combine the thrust vectoring on the ascent of the SLS...

With the thrust vectoring on the descent of the Falcon Heavy...

And a method to return the rocket precisely back to the launch pad, perhaps a steerable parachute or recovery device using r/c servos...

Then you would really have something. And probably a big hole in your pocket.

kuririn said:

Now, if you could combine the thrust vectoring on the ascent of the SLS...

With the thrust vectoring on the descent of the Falcon Heavy...

And a method to return the rocket precisely back to the launch pad, perhaps a steerable parachute or recovery device using r/c servos...

Then you would really have something. And probably a big hole in your pocket.

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No, anyone who has a model with onboard guidance that WORKS, already "HAS SOMETHING".

REALLY.

Really bugs me when a modeler comes up with something special, that someone else has to wisecrack that if the model also did such-and such, or has such-and-such, THEN it would be really neat.

Example - My Lunar Module Quadcopter. Until this summer the only one in the world (That I could google). Too many said, "what would be really neat" would be if the ascent stage took off after landing. As though the model as-is was not enough. Only one in the world, not good enough. My temptation was to call them an "ascent" something, without the cent.

I "settle" by saying "I look forward to seeing you fly your Lunar Module Quadcopter whose Ascent stage takes off after landing". Oddly none have done so.

I'll note that thru the years have also heard some say my R/C X-1 would be "really neat" if it deployed landing gear. And later, that my R/C Shuttle with programmed custom Flight Computer that sepped the SRB's and the obiter glided down by R/C, and oh yeah won scale at NARAM in 1999, would be "really neat" if it had tile detail and deployed landing gear. Not kidding.

And so that is why I'm fed up with seeing really neat projects effectively put down by some other peoples cracking that it's not "neat" as-is. That it ought to have some extra stuff to be "neat", with projects that 99%+ of them could never build themselves, never mind the "really neat" additions they cracked about.