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RRS report from Randy's Rocketry (2009-01-26)

Randy reports on this past weekend's launch at the RRS, with photo's of a Zn/S rocket ( you gotta love that plume! ), a Sugar Shot to Space test, and a LOX/kerosene static fire (I think). [Read More]

FAR, FAR away (2010-03-18)

A while back, Paul Breed tweeted (can't believe I used that term) about this week end's activities at FAR , which will include a flight of his Blue Ball, Masten's Xombie, a solid propellant project, ... [Read More]

Flight of the (SS2S) Phoenix (2010-03-23)

Richard Nakka reports on the launch of the Sugar Shot to Space Phoenix test rocket last Saturday. It flew nicely to about 3K' on a J420R (:eek: a commercial APCP motor!) but came down hard. I've ... [Read More]

MiniSShot launch report (2010-04-25)

Sugar Shot to Space reports that they launched their MiniSShot test rocket earlier today. The rocket employed a 2-phase sugar motor with an initial burn, followed by a delay/coast period and then a ... [Read More]

Sugar Shot to Space - Mini Shot 2 flight report (2011-05-09)

Richard Nakka distributed the flight report for last Saturday's MSS-2 flight.  The 2-phase motor appears to have worked nominally and the upper stage was recovered in decent shape.  They ... [Read More]

Sugar Shot 'Q' motor CATO (2011-09-18)

The Sugar Shot to Space "DoubleSShot" test motor went boom.  It was a 115,000 N-sec Q-motor with over 160 pounds of propellant. [Read More]

Three stages all in one motor! (2012-07-16)

I have been posting for years about the Sugar Shot to Space (SS2S) project, which employs dual-phase motors.  That is, a motor that has two burn phases.  Today, IEEE Spectrum reports on ... [Read More]

Sugar Shot to Space's big 12 inch (2016-12-18)

I haven't posted about this project in a while.  This video is worth watching! "2 grains 12x20 260 pounds of propellant Motor by Rick Maschek and Eric Beckner" [Read More]