Das studentische Raketenteam von Waterloo bricht einen Weltrekord
https://uwaterloo.ca/news/engineering/waterloos-student-rocketry-team-breaks-world-record
Das studentische Raketenteam von Waterloo bricht einen Weltrekord
https://uwaterloo.ca/news/engineering/waterloos-student-rocketry-team-breaks-world-record
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Here’s the video of the launch through 63K feet of altitude.
https://reddit.com/link/p8ksd1x/video/35vxc8ppsboh1/player
Congratulations to the young men and women on their accomplishment. Beat the old record by ~10% 💪
Sooo that made me a bit nauseous and I can’t help it but the ride ending so quickly reminded me of the end of Gravity’s Rainbow.
Congratulations and such good news for all of us! True American US citizens applaud this achievement!
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Very cool, just re-read Rocket Boys (October Sky), so cool to see this. High school rocketry has come a long way!
I was briefly on the team in 2019/2020 and super hyped they seem to be doing better than ever. Hell yeah
This might be a stupid question, but I have always wondered.
With launches like this, smaller rockets and less time up in the sky, will that rocket on a parachute come straight back down? Are we talking +/- 5,15,25 miles away? I can’t imagine it traveling too far from the launch site, but I’m also not am engineer, so I don’t know! Thanks for the help in advance.
I’m on the team and helped build the engine for this rocket, happy to answer questions if anyone has any!
it seems this rocket is about 5 meters long, about 150 kg with fuel, and the engine has a thrust of about 1.6 tons of force.
They have not updated the page to include this rocket, but the team has spectacularly detailed documents describing their earlier hardware: [https://www.waterloorocketry.com/documentation](https://www.waterloorocketry.com/documentation)
These rockets are similar but a step above the amateur rockets which Tom Mueller built at home before starting SpaceX. Of course the university program has much more time and budget, which makes their hardware much more carefully designed and documented. This is a really good way to get practical experience leading to even bigger projects.
student teams cooking like this is honestly wild. what was the altitude / category they broke?