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Hello! I'll keep it brief.
My name is Kenneth (Kenny) and I am an aerospace engineering student in Boulder, CO. I've been in the hobby for a few years now. I'm also an active member of the CU Sounding Rocket Lab.
Certified TRA L1 and L2 with TRA in the fall of 2019. Have a few J-K-L flights under my belt currently looking to certify L3.
My most recent project was CU SRL's minimum diameter vehicle, Obsidian (bottom video), which took to the skies (and was successfully recovered) on April 2 of this year. Obsidian was a scratch-built design, and used custom wound carbon fiber airframes and a custom wound fiberglass nosecone. We made our own fancy 4-axis filament winder for such things.
Apogee was 33,000ft and max velocity of Mach 2.1 on a CTI O3400. I jointly led the project and managed to get it off the pad thanks to some previous experience from my (failed) L3 attempt vehicle, Solace (top video).
That is all!
Thank you, and happy to be here!
View attachment SolaceIV_Onboardcam_Trim_Trim.mp4
View attachment Obsidian_Onboard_Trimmed_Trim.mp4
My name is Kenneth (Kenny) and I am an aerospace engineering student in Boulder, CO. I've been in the hobby for a few years now. I'm also an active member of the CU Sounding Rocket Lab.
Certified TRA L1 and L2 with TRA in the fall of 2019. Have a few J-K-L flights under my belt currently looking to certify L3.
My most recent project was CU SRL's minimum diameter vehicle, Obsidian (bottom video), which took to the skies (and was successfully recovered) on April 2 of this year. Obsidian was a scratch-built design, and used custom wound carbon fiber airframes and a custom wound fiberglass nosecone. We made our own fancy 4-axis filament winder for such things.
Apogee was 33,000ft and max velocity of Mach 2.1 on a CTI O3400. I jointly led the project and managed to get it off the pad thanks to some previous experience from my (failed) L3 attempt vehicle, Solace (top video).
That is all!
Thank you, and happy to be here!
View attachment SolaceIV_Onboardcam_Trim_Trim.mp4
View attachment Obsidian_Onboard_Trimmed_Trim.mp4
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