10-14-2025, 11:50 AM
It's ready.
In a completely unexpected turn of events, all the major tests have worked and it's landed us way ahead of schedule once again. This spring, funding permitting, I'm sending something to space. the still unnamed 2 stage solid propellant suborbital rocket will aim to pass the Kármán line and recover both stages, delivering real time telemetry data for the whole duration of the flight. no cameras on flight 1 due to limited sapce, but future flights should have significantly more payload available, including a gopro or two.
the concept remains largely similar to the one posted a couple years ago, still being a long, narrow 2 stage rocket. the first stage motor is the O-6160-B3-P which has been static fired successfully. second stage will be powered by a slightly modified version of the other successfully fired motor, called the O-4029-S-P. the exact design has not fired but it is very similar to the O-4287-S-P which has completed testing, the only changes being a slightly lower chamber pressure and tweaked propellant grain geometry.
avionics have been tested and verified, motor designs are completed and flight-ready, aerostructures are in the process of being fabricated right now and the method of making these has been flight proven under high G loads and aerodynamic stresses. technology-wise, we're there. the big thing right now is funding since rocket propellant ain't cheap, but i'm hoping to get that all worked out and at the very least get a fully integrated launch in before the end of 2026.
information about how you can watch the launch will be posted here on a later date.
In a completely unexpected turn of events, all the major tests have worked and it's landed us way ahead of schedule once again. This spring, funding permitting, I'm sending something to space. the still unnamed 2 stage solid propellant suborbital rocket will aim to pass the Kármán line and recover both stages, delivering real time telemetry data for the whole duration of the flight. no cameras on flight 1 due to limited sapce, but future flights should have significantly more payload available, including a gopro or two.
the concept remains largely similar to the one posted a couple years ago, still being a long, narrow 2 stage rocket. the first stage motor is the O-6160-B3-P which has been static fired successfully. second stage will be powered by a slightly modified version of the other successfully fired motor, called the O-4029-S-P. the exact design has not fired but it is very similar to the O-4287-S-P which has completed testing, the only changes being a slightly lower chamber pressure and tweaked propellant grain geometry.
avionics have been tested and verified, motor designs are completed and flight-ready, aerostructures are in the process of being fabricated right now and the method of making these has been flight proven under high G loads and aerodynamic stresses. technology-wise, we're there. the big thing right now is funding since rocket propellant ain't cheap, but i'm hoping to get that all worked out and at the very least get a fully integrated launch in before the end of 2026.
information about how you can watch the launch will be posted here on a later date.
Local rocket man