Video: Homemade rocket: if you really want, you can fly into space
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 02:10
When it comes to something made by hand, they usually remember embroidery, knitting, edible sculpture, traditional painting … But, as it turned out, do it yourself you can even make a real space rocket … The dream of all the boys has recently been realized by a team of American enthusiasts: their homemade rocket went into space!
A home-made rocket made from matches and acorns by the Qu8k team jumped into the stratosphere on September 30 in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Its authors combined business with pleasure: they not only designed a wonderful toy, but also claimed the John Carmack prize ($ 10,000), for which you need to bring the device to an altitude of 100,000 feet (30 kilometers) and fix it with a GPS signal.
Crazy hands of American amateur rocket scientists have assembled a craft that has risen even 121,000 feet! As fast as 8 seconds homemade rocket weighing 128 kilograms burned one and a half tons of fuel and accelerated to 3.5 kilometers per second. Cutting through the clouds, Qu8k's creation flew for another 84 seconds to its highest point in flight.
The joy of team leader Derek Deville is overshadowed by one fact: no matter how hard they try, their homemade rocket did not have time to give a signal at the maximum height that it had reached it. Therefore, they will not apply for the Carmack Prize. But in memory of the flight, there was a video recording made directly from the rocket. Thus, this achievement of American fans of home-made rockets can be noted not only in the "hand-made" category, but also in the "cinema".
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