All Rocketry Blogs

High Power Rocketry: Rocket car (2006-03-29)

Did the first car to break Mach do it in 1979? In a rocket car? Did Budweiser pay for it? Dont take this on face value, but it is an interesting story at least. http://www.bluebird-electric ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Retro rocket car: Opel RAK 2 (2009-03-10)

Here's a photo of the Opel Rak 2's 24 rockets, which held a combined 265 lbs of propellant. This car was developed in the late 30's, well in advance of the infamous V2. Hemming's Auto Blog has a ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: More hybrid rocket car coverage (2009-03-11)

Here's a video for a YouTube user appropriately named laffingastv. He/she has a bunch of videos including a somewhat wimpy 1/4-mile run. Hat tip to Chuck_Rudy on Rocketry Planet. Chuck posted this ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Rocket Car Day, Up to Eleven (2009-05-04)

The results of the 11th installment of Rocket Car Day are now appearing . You can see a bit of the action here . Some photos here and here . Not much coverage so far, but I'm sure more will be ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Rocket car montage (2009-05-06)

Here's a video montage of Rocket Car Day 11 held in Sydney. Some of the cars actually seemed to go fairly straight. The most interesting and least functional design was the Steve-a-pult. This had ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Mini-rocket cars: (2009-05-08)

Check out these Rocket Powered Matchbox Cars! [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Slow motion video of unguided rocket cars (2009-05-15)

The latest documentation from Rocket Car Day 11 is the slow-motion montage embedded below. Safety code? We don't need no steenking safety code! My favorite is the Steve-a-pult. Rocketcar Day 11. ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Black Knight Rocket Car in action (2009-06-09)

The Black Knight: Hybrid Rocket RC Car blog has photos of the hybrid motor mounted in the car and a video of the first run. [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: Rocket/jet car for breaking 1000mph (2009-07-31)

"RAF fighter pilot Andy Green intends to get behind the wheel of a car that is capable of reaching 1,000mph (1,609km/h). Powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, the ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Another cool rocket car project: Aussie Invader 5R (2009-12-07)

  click here for the full size image The Aussie Invader 5R rocket car, in competition with the Bloodhound SSC , is on a quest to beat the current land speed record of 763 mph.  In fact, ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Rocket Car Day 12 - "High Doom" (2010-04-11)

savaged , originally uploaded by agentdeclan . Every year Australian rocket car enthusiasts meet in the dusty back streets of Sydney for a day of racin', duckin' and dodgin'. This year's race was ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Free-range rocket cars = guaranteed landsharks (2010-04-15)

On-board video shows that, at Rocket Car Day , ya' better know how to dance! I hope the person that got burned is not too bad off. IMO, tethers/guideline would eliminate the dancing but would make ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: A massively clustered Coke Zero/Mentos Rocket Car (2010-06-02)

Uncharacteristically, I mostly find this to be a waste of good Coke Zero. But as long as it's their Coke Zero and not mine...and the scale of the project IS cool. Via Clark Lindsey - hey Clark, ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Model rocket car on TV (2010-07-15)

Tonight, David Letterman had this woman demoing toys.  One was the a rocket car that I thought was called a 'Race Rocket'.  She hands Dave the controller and says to step back because ... [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: Make a rocket car (2011-05-26)

There are some potentially dangerous projects on this website, so be careful. Instructables.com [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: 1930 vintage rocket car (2012-10-22)

Sig Haugdahl's rocket car,   via LowKat on the HAMB (Hokey Ass Message Board)...     [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: JATO Rocket Car: Mission Accomplished? (is the 3rd time a charm?) (2013-05-02)

The Mythbusters kicked of their 10th season with a third try at the JATO Chevy rocket car myth. A fitting start since the first try was on their very first episode. In short, the myth says that ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: More about the Mythbuster's third JATO rocket car episode (2013-05-17)

I just noticed that the TRF thread on the episode has been joined by Rick Maschek, who was involved with the making of the rocket motors. He has two Facebook albums that are viewable: Building the ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: More rocket cars! (well, one car and a cycle) (2013-07-15)

Click any photo to see the source album, which contains more cool photos. "Gillette Mach 3 Challenger 1999 driven by Richard Brown.  Hydrogen peroxide rocket-powered motorcycle setting a two ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Budweiser Rocket Car goes supersonic in 1979 (2014-03-04)

This video is at least 20% awesome. I didn't watch the whole thing but rather just skipped around to the footage of the car running. Those parts are 100% awesome. You aerodynamicists might be ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Pinewood derby on roids (2009-01-10)

Like pinewood derby? Want more speed than gravity can provide? Try CO2 rocket cars. Pitsco's Science of Speed site offers all kinds of info of the competitions, the techniques, the science, and the ... [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: Project Farside (2009-01-15)

These are four stage rockoons that were designed to test space at high altitudes approaching 4,000 miles. A rockoon is a rocket launched at altitude from a balloon, resulting very high altitudes. ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Inflatable Shield for Earth Reentry Passes Test (2009-08-19)

Successful Test A Black Brant 9 rocket carries the Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. The device released from its rocket and inflated to its full 10-foot ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Launch of an Atlas 5 rocket with the classified PAN spacecraft for Lockheed Martin (2009-09-08)

The Atlas 5 rocket carrying a secretive communications satellite built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. goverment blasted off at 5:35 p.m. EDT on a two-hour ascent from Cape Canaveral, Florida ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Bloodhound SSC motor update (2009-11-04)

Rocketeers.co.uk has an update on the development of the hybrid rocket motor for the Bloodhound SSC supersonic rocket car.  The blogger expresses his/her " bitterly disappointed that we're ... [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: First light sail (solar sail) spacecraft: "Ikaros" (2010-04-27)

(Not in English.) (Short simulation of deployment process, without sound.) (Detailed simulation of deployment process, no sound.) "A rocket carrying the Ikaros -- an acronym for Interplanetary ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: High Power Rocketry magazine, June 1998 (2010-11-28)

Here's a recap of yet another old issue of HPR magazine. Upon searching for some background on one article, I actually found an old Rocketry Planet article announcing that this issue was shipped, ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: The Bloodhound SCC, HTP, and HTPB (2011-02-15)

If I knew this, I'd forgotten it.  The Bloodhound SSC will use a 'different' kind of hybrid engine - catalyzed High Test Peroxide (HTP) + good ol' HTPB. Clark Lindsey found an article about ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Garvey Prospector 18A (2011-03-09)

Clark Lindsey has an update on the latest Garvey / Cal State Prospector 18A flight.  This nice sized LOX/ethanol rocket carried several science experiments and 50lb of steel ballast.  ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Jacques Valier Advanved Rocketry At The Cost Of His Life (2011-03-21)

Alamogordo Daily News By Michael Shinabery, New Mexico Museum of Space History Newspapers worldwide announced Jacques Valier's May 17, 1930, death, although details varied and were mostly wrong, ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: 45th Space Wing Successfully Launches First SBIRS GEO-1 Satellite (2011-05-08)

May 7, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. - The U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing successfully launched a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: U.S. Air Force Minotaur 1 Rocket (updated with launch window) (2011-06-27)

U.S. Air Force Minotaur 1 Rocket , a photo by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr. "An U.S. Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket carrying the Department of Defense’s Operationally Responsive Space ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Minotaur 1 ORS-1 launch is ON (2011-06-29)

Posted by RCC on 2011-06-29 at 13:54:35 EDT The countdown has started for the launch today of the Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket carrying the ORS-1 satellite. The launch window is 8:28 to 11:28 p.m. The ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Launch Of A Delta IV Rocket With A GPS Block 2F Satellite (2011-07-18)

Here is a highlight video of the launch of a Delta IV rocket carrying a USAF GPS Block 2F satellite. Saturday July 16, 2011 [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: NASA Dependent On Russian Soyuz Space Taxi For At Least Five More Years (2011-12-18)

(Reuters) - Budget cuts in a program to spur commercial space taxis will likely keep the United States dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station until 2017, NASA's ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: North Korea's First Satellite Launch. A Rare Glimpse Into The Communist Countries Space Program. (2012-04-08)

First reports from Sohae launch pad Foreign reporters in Pyongyang to cover the planned launch this week of North Korea’s Unha-3 rocket were given a tour of the Sohae launch facility on ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Delta IV Heavy Launches NROL-15 (2012-07-02)

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., (June 29, 2012) — A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifted off from ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Links roundup (2012-09-28)

Take 100 NASA Photos, Stir, Make Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ , Mashable - That's what Alex Parker, a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, made ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Rocket Launches from Wallops, is seen in Maryland/DC area (2013-06-06)

"A NASA Black Brant XII suborbital rocket streaks into the night sky following its launch at 11:05 p.m. EDT on June 5, 2013 from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The rocket carried the ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Hump Day Found Photos (2013-06-26)

First, a couple of retro futuristic cars.   A clustered rocket sled at the Alamogordo Museum of Space History: If we rocketeers can accept the term JATO, I guess we can let ... [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: Proton-M rocket crashes in Russia (2013-07-02)

"Russia’s Proton-M rocket carrying three additional satellites for its Glonass global positioning and navigation network exploded shortly after launch early on Tuesday from the Baikonur space ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: The Bloodhound Challenge (2015-10-18)

The team behind the Bloodhound rocket car and Guinness World Records are promoting science and engineering by sponsoring a quest of the fastest model rocket car. There is more background in the ... [Read More]

Wayne Hill's Blog: Cygnus OA-6 (2016-03-23)

Last night’s Cygnus OA-6 Launch Cygnus OA-6 blasted off last night atop an Atlas V rocket carrying nearly 7500 pounds of supplies for the ISS. This is the second launch on an AtlasV since the ... [Read More]