Questions regarding model and/or high-powered rocketry.
Questions tagged [amateur-rocketry]
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How did the GoFast 2014 Rocket de-spin?
In this awesome Youtube video of HD footage from the GoFast 2014 Rocket, a de-spin maneuver is performed. Is this a yo-yo de-spin?
You can see the de-spin at 0:57 and at 3:47, where it really looks like a bolo is flying away, but I can't be certain.…
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Record-setting flights in amateur rocketry
It appears that amateur groups have launched rockets to space (above the Karman line), but these were flights of commercial (Pegasus) rockets by amateur teams.
What I am interested in is record-setting flights using rockets of amateur design and…
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