Hello from Singapore!

[shanylong]

Hey everyone!

I'm from the SEDS Singapore Rocketry Club, a student-run rocketry club in Singapore (the only one in the country), and I'm pretty excited to join this forum. To date, our team has only launched a single rocket at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR) launch site, but hey, I guess everyone's gotta start somewhere!

Rocketry is a pretty challenging hobby in Singapore, a country with strict laws and regulations. Due to this, we've had to find all kinds of workarounds for some of our rocket's components. Fore example, we decided to go with a ejection mechanism that utilized a hot-wire system in order to deploy our chutes, due to laws here in Singapore on the use and importation of certain energetics and explosives (like black powder and e-matches). This allowed us to do our testing in Singapore, which made things a lot easier for us.

Our team is planning to launch another rocket again at the FAR launch site this coming year, at the FAR-OUT competition held end May - June. I had a great time there last year at the previous competition we took part in, and got to meet many great folks from other colleges and universities.

Edit: Added a pic I took of our last launch! We faced a number of challenges leading up to the launch, but we were assisted by many of the awesome people on site. We couldn't have done it without them. A special shoutout to the folks at FAR and the Norco College Rocketry Team - ya'll guys are awesome.

 

[rocket_troy]

Well done on the deployment ingenuity. So, is there somewhere more local to launch? Like, in Malaysia perhaps?

TP

 

[Hobie1dog]

to the forum. thanks for great picture

 

[shanylong]

Well done on the deployment ingenuity. So, is there somewhere more local to launch? Like, in Malaysia perhaps?

TP

Yep! Malaysia is definitely a possibility - Australia seems to have a pretty strong rocketry community as well, so we may try that in the future. We're still working things out, but launching in Malaysia would make things a lot easier for us when it comes to getting our stuff to the launchsite.

 

[shanylong]

to the forum. thanks for great picture

Thank you! Hoping to get more photos soon. I also did try my best to get some shot of the other rockets leaving the launch rail at the FAR-51025 2023 competition - I'll probably post some here in the forum when I have the time!

 

[drewnickel]

Hey everyone!

I'm from the SEDS Singapore Rocketry Club, a student-run rocketry club in Singapore (the only one in the country), and I'm pretty excited to join this forum. To date, our team has only launched a single rocket at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR) launch site, but hey, I guess everyone's gotta start somewhere!

Rocketry is a pretty challenging hobby in Singapore, a country with strict laws and regulations. Due to this, we've had to find all kinds of workarounds for some of our rocket's components. Fore example, we decided to go with a ejection mechanism that utilized a hot-wire system in order to deploy our chutes, due to laws here in Singapore on the use and importation of certain energetics and explosives (like black powder and e-matches). This allowed us to do our testing in Singapore, which made things a lot easier for us.

Our team is planning to launch another rocket again at the FAR launch site this coming year, at the FAR-OUT competition held end May - June. I had a great time there last year at the previous competition we took part in, and got to meet many great folks from other colleges and universities.

Edit: Added a pic I took of our last launch! We faced a number of challenges leading up to the launch, but we were assisted by many of the awesome people on site. We couldn't have done it without them. A special shoutout to the folks at FAR and the Norco College Rocketry Team - ya'll guys are awesome.

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Welcome to the forum. I'm one of the volunteers with FAR-OUT, so look forward to getting to meet the team!

 

[Blast it Tom!]

I'm glad to see you and your fellow members having the determination to pursue your passion with all the "headwind" of regulations making it harder. I hope that you can find a better place to launch that doesn't require a transcontinental airline trip! But we do have a reasonable representation of rocketeers from Austrailia here on the forum, and if necessary I'm sure they'd be willing to help with an Australian launch. I mean, face, it... FAR is really far for you!

As an added coincidence, my favorite preacher is from Singapore.

 

[shanylong]

Welcome to the forum. I'm one of the volunteers with FAR-OUT, so look forward to getting to meet the team!

Thank you! Awesome - looking forward to meeting you too!

 

[shanylong]

I'm glad to see you and your fellow members having the determination to pursue your passion with all the "headwind" of regulations making it harder. I hope that you can find a better place to launch that doesn't require a transcontinental airline trip! But we do have a reasonable representation of rocketeers from Austrailia here on the forum, and if necessary I'm sure they'd be willing to help with an Australian launch. I mean, face, it... FAR is really far for you!

As an added coincidence, my favorite preacher is from Singapore.

Yep you're right - FAR is crazy far compared to Australia and Malaysia which are just a hop, skip and a jump away. I did see a fair amount of posts in the New Member Introductions made by rocketry enthusiasts from Australia (I recall seeing one from Victoria).

 

[cwbullet]

Welcome to TRF.

 

[shanylong]

Welcome to TRF.

Thank you! I'm looking forward to learning more about rocketry in general from the experienced chaps on this forum. I learned plenty at our last launch!

 

[PaddyDaddy]

Welcome to TRF. I've been to Singapore. I greatly enjoyed my visit there