University Weekly writeup of the class, November, 2008
October 24, 2009 Student Launches
To work the slide shows below, click on the small images to get a medium size photo. If you would like the full size image click on Large on the top right hand side of the slide show interface. Click on the right hand side link to step forward through the images, and click on the left hand side links to go backwards.
High res of 2009 summary photo and
high res image of the 2008
compilation image.
YouTube movies of UW launches include
L2 Ultimate Endeavour and
Delta IV
The group gratefully acknowledges the support of the Washington Aerospace Club and its members including Carl Hamilton for assistance during the class launches, and to Bob Frost and Mike McCarthy for assistance in telemetry and electronic packages.
We also gratefully acknowledge financial support from Aerojet and the Washington Space Grant Consortium.
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L2 Certification flight by Michele Cash on K550 4 inch diameter rocket called "Work Avoidance" reaching an altitude of 6872 ft and nearly Mach 856ft/s. See slide show, or Movie from Rocket (21 Mbytes) |
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L1 certification flight by Bob Frost on PML Phobos using a H128 See slide show but unfortunately too fast for a movie. Peak altitude approaximtely 3000 ft. |
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L2 certification flight by Keith Cowan on a K550 - 4in diameter rocket called the "Barber Pole" to 7124 ft and 880ft/s See slide show, or Movie from Rocket (30 Mbytes) |
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L2 certification flight by Melissa Rogers on a J motor - 4in diameter rocket See slide show, or Movie from Rocket (30 Mbytes) |
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Launch of a Level 1 PML Phobos using a H128 See slide show, or Movie from Rocket (21 Mbytes) |
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2in Minimum diameter rocket using a modified Phobos rocket system on a K550 motor. Reach close to Mach 1 but sheddred near end of burn. No flight data and lots of pieces recovered. Nice flight though. See slide show, or Movie from Rocket (35 Mbytes) but the rocket was moving to fast to get a real good movie - sorry about that. |
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Launch of a clustered rocket system using a Delta IV configuration running on 2 x H128 and 1 center K550. See slide show, or Movie from Rocket (21 Mbytes). You Tube link is way cool. The outboard H128s ignite first with the K550 coming up to pressure very slowly to give the most unorthodox but spectacular flight to be seen over the skies at Mansfield. Hopefully not be be repeated. |
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Launch of single stage Quantum Leap (3in diameter) on a K695, reaching 9009 ft and Mach 1.3 and successfully recovered in one piece See slide show, or Movie from Rocket (26 Mbytes) |
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Launch of Little Red a Level 1 PML Phobos using a H268 carrying the telemetry package in a 2 in diameter rocket. Max speed of 543 ft/s See slide show. |
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Launch of a two stage L1 rocket on a H268 booster to a H128 sustainer. Last launch of the day so a little dark but second stage successful lite and recovered. See slide show, |
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