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).
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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]