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Make: High-Power Rockets - New Book on HPR Is Now Out! (2017-12-05)
Make: High-Power Rockets by Mike Westerfield After a long wait, we now have a new book on rocketry by author Mike Westerfield. He wrote a book I often talk about here ... [Read More]
Mid Power: Building the Quest Big Dog (Part 12) - Finishing Touches (2015-05-20)Click here for Part 1 The Big Dog is looking really good at this point. Now it's time to attach the rail buttons and take care of a few final details. If you're just tuning in , rail buttons ... [Read More]
Fiddling Around (2015-09-05)My schedule is all over the place. Sometimes I work late at night; sometimes early, early in the morning. All this back and forth has left me with less time than I'd like for rocket building or ... [Read More]
The Copperhead Rocket - Built from Scratch (2015-10-13)This post is about a current project I'm working on. Pictures of current projects will mostly appear on The Rocket N00b Facebook page , so I can focus the blog more on informative stuff for ... [Read More]
When Launches Don't Go As Planned - An Example of Post-Flight Analysis (2016-01-11)If you build your rockets well and prepare them carefully for launch, most of your flights will go well. Sometimes, however, you will have flights which do not go as planned. Any number of things can ... [Read More]
Playing With the Flight Simulation (2016-04-04)You can generate an image of your rocket in flight in the Photo Studio in OpenRocket. Now that we've run a first simulation using Estes C6-5 motors, let's try a couple things. What if I'd built the ... [Read More]
Technical Difficulties (2019-11-05)I was trying to illustrate the next post on the N00b T00b last night, with a screenshot from OpenRocket, on the MacBook Air I use for The Rocketry Show podcast. But the 3D image of designs in ... [Read More]
K'Tesh! A Chat with Jim Parsons, OpenRocket Wizard - The Model Rocket Show (2020-05-11)Jim Parsons' OpenRocket sim of the Estes Cineroc and Omega The latest episode of The Model Rocket Show podcast is up, and I'm talking with Jim Parsons. You may know Jim by the username K'Tesh on The ... [Read More]
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