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Online Resources
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Rocketry Planet
Rocketry Planet is a world class hobby portal dedicated to hobby rocketry enthusiasts around the globe. Here you will find the most exhaustive collection of hobby rocketry web site links for vendors, manufacturers, clubs, organizations, individuals as well as informational sites, books, publications and other types of software and media.
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Rocketry Online
The premier portal for everything related to rocketry on the Internet. If you can't find it here, you probably can't find it.
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Essence Model Rocket Reviews
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Welcome to Rocketry
If you are, by chance, brand new to rocketry and are looking for a concise primmer to get you on your way, then check out this introduction compiled by John Coker.
You may even find it useful if you have been in rocketry for a while but never cracked the code spoken by some of the old-timers. I know I did.
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thrustcurve.org
The central repository for all Tripoli and NAR motor certification testing data, maintained by legendary rocketeer John Coker. True to his discipline of making his designs bullet-proof and multipley redundant, this site can be accessed using either .org OR .com in the address.
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Rocket Equations
If you are currently wearing a pocket protector, this site is for YOU! |
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Parachute Descent Rate Calculator
Just what it says it is. An online descent rate calculator |
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Rocketry Clubs and Associations
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Minnesota Amateur Spacemodeling Association.
National Association of Rocketry - Section 576
Rick's Rocket club in Minnesota. The heritage of this club is model rocketry, but it has evolved to include High Power. |
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Superstition Spacemodeling Society
National Association of Rocketry - Section 506
Tripoli Rocketry Association - Prefecture 047
One of the Phoenix rocketry clubs to which Brad holds a membership.
This club launches everything from model rockets up to the occasional O motor.
The heritage of this club is model rocketry, but it has evolved to include High Power. |
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Arizona High Powered Rocketry Association.
Tripoli Rocketry Association - Prefecture 050
One of the Phoenix rocketry clubs to which Brad holds a membership.
This club launches everything from O motors on down to the occasional model rocket.
The heritage of this club is High Power rocketry, and although it welcomes rocket enthusiasts of all types it tries to maintain it's identity as a High Power club and will encourage those interested only in smaller rockets to join SSS. |
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National Association of Rocketry
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Tripoli Rocketry Association, Inc.
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Manufacturers and Vendors
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Aerotech
Leading manufacturer of composite propellant and motor hardware. Aerotech also offers a variety of mid to high power rocket kits
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Apogee Components
The source for RockSim rocket simulation software, model rocket kits, literature, black powder motors, rocket plans, educational materials, you name it. Apogee also offers many other software packages, including a wind tunnel simulator. FYI - this company released a 1/70 scale Saturn IV kit in November 2001 that is absolutely fantastic.
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BSD Rocketry
BSD offers kits for the beginner or sport flyer in high power rocketry. BSD Kits include high-quality glassine-coated airframe tubes, plastic nosecones, great hardware, aircraft-quality plywood parts, centering rings, computer designed and cut self-adhesive vinyl decals, and photo-illustrated instruction books. BSD was aquired by Just Rockets Inc. in January 2006
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Deepsky Rocket Shop
An RTV Auxillary Member at large, Paul Lavin is proprietor of Europe's largest rocketry supply company.
Paul's web-store is not the usual online catalog, his product descriptions are heavily salted with his legendary British wit (more dry than sweet). In fact, he is currently being harassed by the E.U. Subcommittee on Cyberspace Frivolity for exceeding mandated specifications pertaining to hyperbole and sarcasm), Go check it out, even if you don't buy your cheese by the stone.
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Dr. Rocket
Manufacturer of motor hardware consistent with Aerotech specifications. Dr. Rocket also offers Aerotech composite propellant for sale at various major launches in the Southwest.
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G-Wiz Flight Electronics
Makers of the G-Wiz flight computer. This little baby is the bee's knees, combining an accelerometer and barometric altimeter in one tiny unit.
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HyperTEK Hybrid Motors
The HyperTEK® is a modular, hybrid propellant rocket motor system that uses readily available nitrous oxide (N2O) and thermoplastic fuel grains. Designed primarily for use in launching small experimental payloads by universities, colleges, research institutes and sport rocketry enthusiasts, the system is also intended to be a technology demonstrator for CTI's and eAc's hybrid propulsion technology.
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Missile Works
Manufacturer of a variety of rocketry products. Rocket kits, parts and supplies, apparel, free downloadable software tools, and awesome electronics including the RRC2 Rocket Recovery Controller altimeter and the WRC2 Wireless Remote Controller.
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Photos by Nadine
Nadine's photographs have been featured in High Power Rocketry, Sport Rocketry and Extreme Rocketry publications. Often seen scurrying around Hartsel CO. and at LDRS, Nadine has truly made rocketry action shots an art form.
We first met Nadine at GHS2000 and made her acquaintance again at GHS2004. Not only is Nadine an exceptional photographer, she is also a fine fine human being. And she laughs at our humor, making her a rare jewel indeed.
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Recovery Technologies
Deby Falkner makes beautiful parachutes that are surprisingly affordable. If you're still flying your favorite rocket kits with the plastic chutes they came with, you are really missing out.
Also a good source for Kevlar/Nomex chute protectors and rocket socks.
Recovery Technologies products are also available through Space Modeling Solutions.
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Rocketman
Manufacturer of a variety of rocketry products. Rocket kits, parts and supplies, apparel, and most notably, high-test ballistic grade recovery products. |
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West Coast Hybrids
West Coast Hybrids has strived to develop the most simple, safe, and cost effective Hybrid motor system on the market today. All parts of the motor system are manufactured with only the highest quality materials by means of CNC lathes and checked in a temperature controlled environment to maintain the highest possible standards. The system utilizes multiple case design with interchangeable parts between impulses.
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Other Rocketeer's Web Sites
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John Coker's Rocketry Pages
If RTV is macaroni and cheese, John Coker is filet mignon.
John's web site is first rate, his rockets are first rate, and his construction techniques are first rate.
The self described 'man with thousand hobbies' is also the man with a thousand power tools - and he knows how to use them.
This site is a living documentary showing what can be accomplished when the normal limitations of budget and free time are rendered powerless.
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Brittain Fraley's Delta V Rocketry
This web site is astounding. The rockets themselves are formidable, fast, and furious - but Brittain has incorporated gyro roll-stabilization to compliment his digital video. The result is some of the best flight video anywhere. It is an amazing technical accomplishment for a hobbyist. Be sure to view the video the shows a side-by-side comparison of the unstabilized v. stabilized flight. Remarkable.
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Gates Brothers Rocketry
This is what the Batman and Robin web site would look like if Bruce Wayne and his youthful ward Dick Grayson had gotten wound up in rocketry instead of fighting crime.
Not only will Dirk and Eric Gates will burn more propellant in one rocket flight than RTV will burn in an entire lifetime, they'll also pack their rockets full of digital cameras so you can see the flight via on-board video.
This site alone will make investing an a T1 Internet connection worthwhile.
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H3 Rocketry
H3 stands for the Homan Family -- brothers Mike and Scott, and their father, Howard. These guys have a slick web site - and in keeping with the theme of family togetherness it only seemed appropriate to add a link from here. H3 Rocketry is the cyberspace home of the Mega-Goblin -- a super-cool M-powered upscale of the Estes Goblin!
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VA Rocketry
Scott McCluskey is another Standard Missile enthusiast. He has ambitions to build a 40% scale Standard Missile that will launch on an M1939 in the Terrier booster and stage to an M1315 in the sustainer. That is some Major League Grunt!
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Trailer Trash Aerospace is a group of high-power and experimental rocket enthusiasts in the desert Southwest building magnificent things with the thinnest of resources. They have some great, innovative, and CHEAP construction techniques. They've also done some really cool stuff with sugar motors and test vehicles.
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Publications
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Extreme Rocketry Magazine
We're not sure if the magazine is extreme, if the rocketry is extreme, or both.
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Sport Rocketry Magazine
The official magazine of the National Rocketry Association. You get a free subscription when you join the NAR.
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Rockets Magazine
The new official magazine of the Tripoli Rocketry Association. You can see a sample from the magazine if you follow the link. The cost of the magazine is the same for TRA members and non-members. |
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Non-Rocketry Favorites
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www.extremeironing.com ...taking ironing to the edge
This is a link to the cyberhome of Extreme Ironing - the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt. Imagine lugging an iron and ironing board to top the Himalayas or the bottom of the ocean just to get a photograph.
And to think that there are those who believe rocketry is weird....
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www.cockeyed.com
Rob Cockerham's personal web site featuring wacky adventures like "trophy night", "free milk night", "science club", "how much is inside", harmless pranks around Sacramento, documentation of his vendetta against Herbalife advertizing, and a disturbing yet revealing admiration of the ubiquitous Hans Blix. Pray that Mr. Cockerham never discovers an interest in rocketry.
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www.lileks.com
Referred to by some as the world's greatest blogger, James Lileks has a wit and literary flair that defies description. Mr. Lileks writes a regular column for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, but the true wealth of his blatherings is better documented on his web site. Favorite features? It is difficult to choose. But I highly recommend the flotsam project: all elements are the stuff of pure evil genious, particularly The Institute of Official Cheer. Schedule several hours to browse this site, and apply Ace bandages to your torso before entering.
James Lileks is also the author of the book, The Gallery of Regrettable Food. Buy it.
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Comb the ruins of your city for old street signs. Their reflective coatings make great non-stick cooking surfaces.
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Readiness Spoof
The US government has a new website, www.ready.gov. The government web site is devoted to instructing the American populace what they should do in the event of a terrorist attack. It is a little like in the old "duck and cover" newsreels shown in classrooms across the country during the Cold War.
This link is not to that web site. An evil twin to the government site has been created at
www.uspoliticsforum.com/emergency. At this page, the illustrations from the government site are given absurd new captions -- and it can be deliriously funny.
Viewer contributions have also been added at [HERE!]. The display format is a little whacked, but keep clicking on the Next link and scroll down past the ones you've already seen to view the next batch.
CAUTION: Some of the humor is crass. Don't follow this link if vulgarities offend you.
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