Rocket photography launch blastoff RocketMavericks "Black Rock Desert" Q P Doll Two-stage
sjurvetson | June 23, 2009For my last rocket-centric post, let me show the big project that I helped with, from a new prefecture for civilian space explorers, called Rocket Mavericks....
She lept off the pad with a glorious 30 ft. plume.
Computer simulations estimated she would scream to 100,000 ft. at Mach 3
⢠22 ft. tall, 540 lbs
⢠Booster stage: machined aluminum fin can and inter-stage coupler mounted directly on the Q motor casing.
⢠Upper stage: Custom wound composites, titanium tip
⢠Festooned with redundant computers, GPS, RF transmission
⢠Q booster staging to a P motor with a custom forward thermite…