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Lift-off
We have a lift off.
We're out here with the BU Rocket Repulsion Group.
Ordinarily we develop hybrid sounding rockets with payloads in space
but we're out here with freshman building solid fuel rockets
and launching them to half a mile altitude.
This is just a nice introduction to rocket science
How motors work.
And how launches work. And launch etiquette, and things like that.
They scratch design their rockets,
ordered all the components,
and went down to machine shops,
and built everything.
We originally had a different fin design
but changed it around to this so it was not going to fall off
when it goes about three, four hundred miles an hour.
I've learned a lot about the field of rocketry in itself
and it's actually become more and more something that
I want to pursue as a career.
This is real world engineering and experience.
This is as real as it gets.
People come in not thinking they can contribute
but seven weeks later,
once they've designed, built, and successfully flown their own rocket
they feel like they can do anything.
We're hoping that, ideally, we can send a rocket into space
in three years
using new motor technology.
An O-Class Hybrid Motor
capable of generating somewhere in the realm of a thousand pounds of thrust
This summer we have the design and nearly finished
And we're about to begin fabrication of components.
It just gets proportionally more exciting as you go up and sail.
The goal is not to have one person teaching everybody
But everyone kind of learning together.
I've come to some of these launches before
and it's a lot of fun.
The space geek kid in me loves it, overtime.