My personal adventures in amateur experimental rocketry
A short writeup about the launch of Henk, mainly so I can share some of the awesome pictures and video’s it produced
Another year, another compilation
It’s that time of year again, and since I started this tradition two years ago, I feel obligated to deliver the third yearly rocketry compilation.
I am not as proud of the editing in this one as I was of … Read More
The troubled launch of Perigee-2, which chose to pursue its passion of skywriting instead of going up as planned.
Also the first launch which had been equipped with avionics (A simple altimeter)
It all looked so easy when you did it on paper
Milton W. Rosen, Rocket engineer, 1956
where valves never froze, gyros never drifted,
and rocket motors did not blow up in your face.
On the 14’th of this month, … Read More
A rather lengthy report detailing the fantastic launch of BTIR-2, which reached more than a 100 meters of altitude, and was recovered intact to boot!
Due to the complexities of launching a full rocket, I have split up this report into 4 sections:
R-15
Igniter, Type IIb, HQ
Launch Setup
The Launch
After years of development, and a month of preparation, the first fully successful … Read More
The first test of the BTIR system, with very exiting (if unexpected) results
A minor failure of the launch, not a minor rocket failing to launch
I have recently made 3 rocket motors based on sorbitol
I still had 2 left over, so I decided to try them instead of letting them absorb moisture and become useless
Since the previous one was such an unsuspected success … Read More
First test launch of a Sorbitol based sugar rocket, and the procedure used to make it
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