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On October 16, 2015, Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering (DARE) launched the Stratos II+ rocket from El Arenosillo, in Spain, to an altitude of 21.457 km with a successful water landing and capsule recovery. This broke the original amateur European altitude record of 12.3 km set by DARE in 2009 with the launch of Stratos I.
A model rocket is a small rocket designed to reach low altitudes (e.g., 100–500 m (330–1,640 ft) for a 30 g (1.1 oz) model) and be recovered by a variety of means. According to the United States National Association of Rocketry (NAR) 's Safety Code, [ 1 ] model rockets are constructed out of lightweight and non metallic parts.
Quest Aerospace is a company based in Cedar City, UT, United States, that designs and produces model rocket kits.. Quest Aerospace was founded in 1992 by Bill Stine (son of G. Harry Stine) in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, and produces model rocket kits for various skill levels of modelers, from the beginner to the most highly skilled.
High-power rocket liftoff. Any model rocket using a single motor greater than 160 Newton-seconds of total impulse, or multiple motors with a total thrust of 320 Newton-seconds, is propelled by a combination of motors having a total of more than 125 grams (4.4 oz) of propellant weight, or weighs more than 1,500 grams (53 ounces) with motors ...
We broke the world record and sent a rocket higher than any [amateur] ever has.” College students break record for highest rocket launched by amateurs at 89 miles above Earth Skip to main content
(c) Class 3—Advanced High-Power Rocket means an amateur rocket other than a model rocket or high-power rocket". Tripoli Rocketry Association maintains a Class 3 review committee [ 10 ] who voluntarily (not required by the FAA) review rockets with altitudes expecting to reach or exceed 50,000 feet and as a pre-check for rocket projects that ...
air-launched rocket plane Unofficial record. [48] 1951: August 15 79,494 ft 24,230 m Bill Bridgeman: Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket: air-launched rocket plane Unofficial record. Powered by the XLR11 liquid fuel rocket engine (designated as XLR8-RM-5). 1953: May 4 63,668 ft 19,406 m Walter Gibb: English Electric Canberra B.2 turbojet
Having conducted multiple rocket launches in an attempt to establish altitude records, CSXT became the first entity to officially launch an amateur rocket into space on May 17, 2004, with the successful launch of its GoFast rocket to an altitude of 116 km (72 miles) above the surface, which was verified by FAA analysis of the team's flight data ...