Randy's Rocketry Blog  Randy's Rocketry Blog PostsLatest Posts2012-05-24 - Space X Congratulations to Space X. Everything seems set for them to complete this historic journey to becoming the first commercial company to dock to the International Space Station. Best of luck in the coming days. [Read More] 2012-05-18 - Metal Purchase I picked up some metal from Industrial Metal Supply before work yesterday. I got some 7" diameter 6061 and 1018 for a test motor I'm building for SStS and some 5" diameter stock for the TR-1 motor. [Read More] 2012-05-17 - TR-1 Rocket Motor initial CAD Here is our initial CAD of the new TR-1 motor. Pretty much the same layout as my first N-class motor. Bates grain consisting of six segments, with a half inch spacing between segments. The motor will utilize approximately 28 lbs of propellant. I will be making the nozzle out of two sections to help reduce the machining time and so that I can use metal stock that I have on hand. [Read More] 2012-05-16 - TR-1 Rocket With my sons first visit to the desert to view a rocket launch and to help out with the static test of the Sugar Shot to Space's latest motor a few weeks behind us, we've decided to build a rocket. The last new motor that I designed, built and flew was this one: That was about two years ago and Theo doesn't remember it at all. That was a new motor that used an existing aero shell that had to... [Read More] 2012-05-07 - First Launch I was out at the FAR site helping out with a SStS static firing and took my son along. It was his first time to the site and I think he loved it. I certainly did. I had a lot of fun watching him explore the area. He scoured the facility looking for "treasure" at one point I looked in the back of the van and found a pile of this treasure consisting of a broken cinder block, a one inch iron... [Read More]
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