3-Stage N-N-M Blastoff!

10 responses to “3-Stage N-N-M Blastoff!”

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   jurvetson

   Sep 27, 2006 at 5:24 am

   P.S. Had it made it, this is the view it would have had from 100K ft:

   
   from Ian Kluft’s Black Rock guide

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2. 

   Slava Murava Kiss

   Sep 27, 2006 at 7:04 am

   Grat dynamic photo!!!

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3. 

   diglips

   Sep 27, 2006 at 8:16 am

   Cool shot! Where do the parts come back down? (I’d be nervous)

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4. 

   Drew__

   Sep 27, 2006 at 11:06 am

   That similar to the experiment I performed with rockets, although it’s primary source of thrust was pressurized water, and it only went ten feet in the air. But it was something…

   …boy it was something

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5. 

   Todd Huffman

   Sep 27, 2006 at 5:39 pm

   Yeah, um, Steve… where *do* the parts come down? Are you just hoping brownian motion and statistics come down in your favor?

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6. 

   Victor1

   Sep 27, 2006 at 11:22 pm

   Pretty much, yeah…. I didn’t think about the lawn dart that might have been headed my way when I was there. Maybe Steve can post that cool photo of the rocket in dashboard of the SUV… ?

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   jurvetson

   Sep 27, 2006 at 11:32 pm

   oddwick: yes! And active dodging.

   As for risk, I’d rather do this than golf any day. Nobody has been injured after years of these launches.
   

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8. 

   xouroborus

   Sep 28, 2006 at 5:32 pm

   ne1 make 100K this event?

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9. 

   jurvetson

   Sep 29, 2006 at 4:20 am

   it did not make it, but all parts were recovered to try again.

   The onboard electronics were quite complicated:

   

   Rocketry Planet has a detailed description of the project.

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10. 

    Rocketman8911

    Jan 15, 2009 at 2:58 am

    It was flying on a CTI N2500, staging to a CTI N1100, staging to a CTI M1400.

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