Secret Santa Workshop

With elves busily machining fins with a fancy jig, and laying up the composite nose cone with an integral drogue parachute canon.

The light green body tubes are beefy custom-wound quartz glass designed for the stresses of supersonic flight.

The blue P-size motor on the left should take a single stage to Mach 3.4 and 60K feet. The Q motor behind it is for the booster stage, allowing the rocket to take 25-50lbs of payload 22 miles straight up, under 50-100G’s of acceleration.

Major Tom, the designer of this RocketMavericks project, shares a number of details in this earlier discussion.