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Sorry I must have misunderstood this USD 0.6 million was charged for the nano satellites

The nano sat must be between 9.99 and 19.99 grams... This would be about the size of a 30-06 bullet... To get an idea of hwo much that is..., for those in the U.S... a Nickel weighs 5 grams... This means the satellite must have a total weight of 2-4 nickels. cannon I guess is out of the...

Uhm... I just generally like to fly around....

I should note that I never said it wasn't possible, just not with a single rolid rocket motor... I do like the idea of orbital insertion via cannon... but not very practical if the technology was to ever have another use. You could shoot a solid hunk of highly radar reflective metal tracked...

I'm thinking on the next incarnation of this motor, I'll drill a few tiny holes in casing at the top and bottom for the purpose of inserting some small screws into the epoxy putty while it's soft. This means that for the plug to come out, the PVC casing will need to facture first. This...

It will work as an oxidizer, you still need a fuel... SpaceShip One used NOS as the oxidizer, and a compound mostly rubber based as the fuel. NOS is commonly used for hybrid motors like this.

Nice design.

When I think of the 20th century, the first thing that comes to mind is WAR. There sure was alot of it. But then I thought about it, and every century had war... The 20th century is unique because of it's being dominated by advances in science. So, even though there have been thousands...

Actually, CSXT was the name of the team... Civilian Space eXploration Team. The name of the rocket was GoFast, named after a commercial sponsor none the less, GoFast Sports.

No. I'm not intending on landing a robot there. I'm planning on slamming something into the moon at interplanetary velocity.

Oh Noes! Catostrophic launch failure! Looks like the cement just ain't gonna work at the top... The good news is the stick lived to fly again... Some notes... Youtube really butchers the quality here. I used a high speed camera at 320x240 and 60 FPS. The high framerate looks...

Anyone know of anybody having calculated, or attempted to calculate the velocity of our sun with reference to the center of the galaxy, and further, any figures on the velocity of our galaxy with reference to the center of the universe?

The info and graphs come from this spreadsheet http://members.aol.com/nakkarocketry/soft/SRM.zip It is the same stick from the first launch... The first one didn't have the nozzle secured enough in the casing and it blew out and ejected the fuel grains... i said this stick once before... I...

Today's G136 Rocket Looks crude... That's fine. The motor itself looked perfect before it got taped up. I just realized another milestone... this is the first time a re-usable component has been used... The stick has flown once before. It was used on "Redneck Rocket I". Here we go for...

Atleast not with a Solid Rocket Motor. By using LH2/LOX, you could skew the budget by implying the fuel was 'free' if you manufactured it yourself, in which case the 'ground equipment' necessary to make the fuel could be excluded from the budget. The problem with that is the cryo equipment...

I think fuel alone for this would cost in excess of 999... Of course the rocket body would also weigh in excess of 19.99g, so I guess this would also require a release mechinism, more mass... and also, I'm not sure a sufficiently powerful radio transmitter and powerpack could be incorporated...

I have tested OUIPC (Orbiter Universal Interprocess Communications) For this purpose, with success. Only drawback to this is OUIPC being TCP based. Addons can communicate with eachother through the localhost TCP loopback. The limitation here is also content. Any information passed must...

A couple things... You can "orbit" phobos as in circling around it once, but you cannot "orbit" phobos when it's implied that it's a stable orbit, one that without constant thrusts to maintain the orbit, that would not decay for years. The sun's SOI extends about twice the distance of...

Use IMFD

Not that I'm aware of, and I'd like to point out a couple things. As far as I'm aware, CSXT is the only amatuer rocket to have achieved this. I personally don't really consider SpaceShipOne as an amatuer attempt, as it was accomplished by a commercial entity. SS1 was however the first manned...