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JCRL said:
Received all the parts needed to put together an experimental weather satellite. The plan is to drop a soda can sized satellite from the rocket at apogee, and the satellite will report back real time data on: temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, altitude, descent speed, and GPS location.

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Where does one get a satellite kit? Look like an interesting project!
 
Mugs914 said:
My Nike-ized Estes Majestic went on an F67, dead straight and landed close. Anther 20 year old, Nike Ajax-looking LP bird went on a B6-4 and landed about 10 feet from where I was standing. Too cool...
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Reminds me of a flight this summer that landed about 20 feet from me, and very gently bumped someones little kitty-dog. (That is, a dog the size of a kitty.) The dog was startled, and sniffing the rocket when I picked it up.
 
@Rocketcas there aren't really any kits per say, I'm building mine from scratch using Arduino sensors and computers, but there's a lot of information out there on how to put them together (mostly from the European Space Agency).
 
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@Rocketcas there aren't really any kits per say, I'm building mine from scratch using Arduino sensors and computers, but there's a lot of information out there on how to put them together (mostly from the European Space Agency).
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JCRL, A year and a half ago (June 2018) I had the good fortune of taking 5 students from our College Rocket Team to RockOn 2018 which was held at NASAs Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia right on the coast. We were there 6 days. In the workshop we build an instrument package tha later in the week NASA launched into space on a Terrier-Orion sounding rocket. The thing broke the sound barrier 3 seconds into the launch.

The heart of the instrument package was an Arduino Mega. We built a Geiger Counter and built a special shield that had accelerometers, temp, air pressure, etc. It was a great experience for my students and I had a wonderful time. And how many people can say that they built something that NASA flew into space? :) Here's some pics of the package.
 

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JCRL said:
@Rocketcas there aren't really any kits per say, I'm building mine from scratch using Arduino sensors and computers, but there's a lot of information out there on how to put them together (mostly from the European Space Agency).
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Greg Furtman said:
JCRL, A year and a half ago (June 2018) I had the good fortune of taking 5 students from our College Rocket Team to RockOn 2018 which was held at NASAs Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia right on the coast. We were there 6 days. In the workshop we build an instrument package tha later in the week NASA launched into space on a Terrier-Orion sounding rocket. The thing broke the sound barrier 3 seconds into the launch.

The heart of the instrument package was an Arduino Mega. We built a Geiger Counter and built a special shield that had accelerometers, temp, air pressure, etc. It was a great experience for my students and I had a wonderful time. And how many people can say that they built something that NASA flew into space? :) Here's some pics of the package.
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What and adventure!
 
JCRL said:
@Rocketcas there aren't really any kits per say, I'm building mine from scratch using Arduino sensors and computers, but there's a lot of information out there on how to put them together (mostly from the European Space Agency).
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What is does your flight profile look like? How high and with what motor(s)?
 
Started the morning off right by getting all this lute from my Black Friday order from Estes. Love the free gifts and ornaments. Both kits were 10 bucks plus shipping. Happy happy joy joy and thank you Estes! And I did a little building of the Executioner
 

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Finally, *finally* submitted my (uncomfortably large TBH) parts order to BMS. Parts specifically targeted at four selected upcoming scratch builds, some additional generic stuff (tubing, etc.) and some composite motors. Got skittish when I saw the total and removed the couple of packs of First Fire Minis I had on there, which I was thinking of using for Deuce launches. Will come up with alternative plans for that.

This should keep me stocked for at least a year or two.
 
kuririn said:
Last night:
Assembled a Rocketarium Terraformer
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and a Semroc Rocket Rack:
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and put together an Estes/Hobby Lobby Solo
(Pre-finished, no wood filling or painting. My kind of rocket):
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and finally put on a coat of paint on the Boyce MA and called it a night:
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Decals and gluing on fins in a couple of days.
Tally ho, pip pip.
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kuririn, where did you get the Semroc Rocket Rack? I looked online but couldn't find one.
 
Finally got the air foil sanded on my vapor fins and got them tacked on and waiting on first filets to dry
 

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I made a rocket rack out of PVC pipe and fittings for the field. Easy to take apart for transport and set up. Better than having them laying on the ground getting stepped on.the upright pipes fit into the motor holes. Not good for BIG rockets.
Anybody have a good solution for this problem??
 
Ordered 3 x H130W and a mini 13 mm chopper rocket from apogee. Huge shout out to Teddy at One Bad Hawk for piecing together a Loki 54/2800 complete casing set and the Loki 1040LR bulkhead and supporting hardware which was hens teeth elsewhere.
 
I was looking at the Estes Christmas ornament freebie that came with my Black Friday order and the wheels started turning:
Cut off the string attachment loop and moved it to a point on the max dia. of the rocket, between two fins.
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Cut off the back end.
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Split the two halves apart. Broke cleanly, with the pins and holes intact.
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After removing a projecting pin, it looks like a BT-5 tube will fit nicely, with a plastic bulkhead in front and the two supporting ridges nicely centering the tube. So I made a motor mount. Peeled down a 5-20 centering ring to fit for the rear.
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And packed the nose with plasticine. Will coat the inside with epoxy to lock the nose weight and protect the plastic from hot gasses (hopefully). This will be tumble recovery with the opening from the sawed off loop being the ejection port, a la the Astron Sprite. The mini engine will eject back and be retained by the standard size hook.
My main concern is whether the plastic halves will be blown apart at the seams by an ejection charge. So I'll use a A10-0T booster motor. Hopefully the blowby gasses will not be as violent as an ejection charge while still moving the engine back and tumbling the rocket. Fingers crossed.
Dry fit and calling it a day. Tomorrow, glue, fabricate a tail cone, and paint. TBC.
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21.5 grams. Estes Curvilinear weighs 40+ grams, and the Jetliner weighs 53 grams.
I think I'll be OK weight wise with an A engine, but stability?
TBD.:D
 
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Got my Estes "Black Friday" shipment today!
2 HoJos.. Bigger than I thought they would be..AWESOME!!! Nice Kits!!! I'm impressed!!
2 Astro Explorers... Bigger than I thought they would be....+ some build complexity with the ejection ducts...Awesome...Nice kit!!!
They gifted me 2 rubber band powered airplanes and a rocket Christmas ornament...AWESOME!!!
LOVE the ornament....but I think it's gonna need some nose weight... ;)
2 2" PSII body tubes and couplers...
I've been needing these for a while to make "my sanding tool"
to true up the bottom of the nose cone paint and the top of the upper body tube paint for a smooth fit to minimize the gap.....
These...
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Got a couple of my first rockets that have been needing these for a little truing up...

Today I got a second look at my new Aerobee-Hi kit that I got on the Madcow "Black Friday" sale about a few days ago....
Great components, reasonable fit....and I learned something about rockets!!
I thought "Aerobee-Hi" was strictly a MODEL rocket name, after some research looking for an alternate paint job I found out
what the Aerobee series was. Pretty cool!!

I am gonna give a review on this kit...not bad, but... not....."complete"....but not here....and not tonight...

SS
 
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I was considering doin something similar to the ornaments I received. I will be following and hoping to read about you launching it soon.
 

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