This is a web page with the history of the O-10,000 motor. This high thrust 4 inch motor has been used quite a bit for large projects including the thunderbolt posted below. In addition, Rikki ... [Read More]
This is a Frank Kosdon rocket. Two stage, O to M flight. The top speed was over mach 3.5, and altitude over 70,000 feet.
Here is the O-10,000 booster stage in operation, that's over 2,000 lbs of ... [Read More]
MARS is a British high power - amateur rocketry group. This project uses a kosdon O-10,000 (can you tell I am a bit obsessed with this motor?) and a boosted dart rocket. The goal first of all was to ... [Read More]
Altitude was not as expected because of a separation problem. Still, for an O, it did get some pretty decent altitude. Most importantly, the O booster did recover. Here is a post about the motor. ... [Read More]
Additional footage of freedom phiter. This is obviously lifted from a Pad 39 productions video so it may not stay up forever. Got to love the scream this rocket makes on the way up.
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Attempt at UK altitude record, failed to achieve expected 50,000+ feet, but still performed well enough at about 30,000 feet apogee. Previous article about this project.
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I took a short break from rocketry and wound up missing tons of crazy stuff! Combine this kit with an all-motor N 5800, with a 20 second staging delay, and I think you could have a ... [Read More]
This great rocket, flown a few years ago, contains I think 3 Kosdon M-3000 motors, or something along those lines. Very nice sound, would have been better in person. No rocketry people are not ... [Read More]
These are from the past few hours:
saturn 5 pictures
how high does first stage rocket send space shuttle
long high powered rocket
high power rocketry altitude record
kosdon rocket
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This image is from a post over at Randy's Rocketry about Hobby vs Amateur rocketry. I love this rocket, it reminds me of some rumors from the past where Dr. Kosdon had planned to fly three or four ... [Read More]
Thanks to a post over at The Rocket Dungeon , we have a great new picture of a Q motor. This appears to be part of Beagle II, simulated below, which is designed to fly to as high as 250,000 feet. ... [Read More]
About 13 years ago, this was the rocketry article that got me back into the hobby, and into HPR for good. It was my rebar moment. I walked into Barnes and Noble and saw a huge rocket on the front of ... [Read More]
(Kosdon Thunderbolt)
John Carmack, of ID fame, is offering $5,000 for the first team to fly above 100,000 feet (done several times before) while meeting several other conditions: "You must ... [Read More]
Frank Kosdon passed a few days back. He is well known for rocket motors as well as a few rocket projects include the one pictured above (Thunderbolt.) Frank worked on the OuR project; something that ... [Read More]
"The launch of my two stage rocket MinFluous at Balls20. 49K ft., Mach 2.7, CTI N3180 to Kosdon M1450, 84 lbs. All parts except one camera recovered. No structural damage."
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Aluminum nosecone and transition - among the best options for high performance hobby rockets. Perhaps only second to steel or exotic metals like titanium for overall performance and ... [Read More]
This is a web page with the history of the O-10,000 motor. This high thrust 4 inch motor has been used quite a bit for large projects including the thunderbolt posted below. In addition, Rikki ... [Read More]
