Thailand rocket launch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD_yQZ4iNjY&feature=player_embedded

This thing is cool, I want to build one.

Seen it, but love it. Apparently there is some big grassroots home made rocket festival every year that this was launched at.

amazing!

I guess the South Park gang will be heading there instead of south.

That's awesome!

That is indeed awesome.

That was amazing and even though I was expecting something, it was not quite that.

Note that unlike the TopGear crew, these Grassroots guys safely landed the vehicle.

In reply to Curmudgeon:

Sí fly.

Impressive. I'd say NASA and Orbital Science Corp. need to hire on some of those folks after that last launch at Wallops Island.

Thats cool.

Seems like it would be hard to get it to fly so straight and level.

I'll bet there is technology there that would be useful in the Skidpad Challenge!

Imprezzive.

I didn't expect the parachute.

A friend of mine is a big time model rocket enthusiast. He builds them out of four foot sections of four inch tube. He goes to a farm in upstate New York to launch them and has to get FAA clearance.

1988RedT2 wrote: Impressive. I'd say NASA and Orbital Science Corp. need to hire on some of those folks after that last launch at Wallops Island.

My thoughts exactly, it didn't blow up.

neon4891 wrote:

1988RedT2 wrote: Impressive. I'd say NASA and Orbital Science Corp. need to hire on some of those folks after that last launch at Wallops Island.

My thoughts exactly, it didn't blow up.

Socket rocket motors don't tend to fail in the same showy catastrophic fashion as liquid fuel ones. Also note that when you see footage of rocket launches with the rocket blowing up 10, 20, 100 feet in the air, that's usually the range safety officer pushing the self-destruct button. The area around the launch pad has been cleared of people, so that while an explosion there will destroy lots of expensive equipment, it won't endanger anyone. If the rocket starts to behave in an unexpected fashion (say, going off course), then it's much safer to blow it up than to let it keep flying and potentially crash in a populated area. This is what happened at Wallops Island.

I wouldn't be surprised if the launch in that video had no range safety setup. It's fundamentally a large firework, and while that's certainly something impressive to do in a "grassroots" fashion, it's several orders of magnitude less complicated than what NASA, OSC, SpaceX, etc are doing.

Chinese new year version?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTDLUt-XhfY&feature=youtu.be

Looks like they've been playing Kerbal a lot.

codrus wrote:

"I wouldn't be surprised if the launch in that video had no range safety setup."

Please don’t be offended, all in good fun…