A Tale of Two Model Rocket Companies: SpaceX and Estes
One just launched the world’s biggest rocket, with mixed success. The other makes small model rockets for hobbyists, and it’s ...
Model rocket explosion ignites 40-acre brush fire in The Compound
PALM BAY — An experimental rocket engine being test-fired accidentally ignited a 40-acre brush fire in The Compound late ...
Hackaday14y
DIY Guided Missile (…err Model Rocket)
Hackers [Navic] and [K.o.D] have fitted an Arduino Pro Mini and an array of components into an off the shelf rocketry kit to create a guided model rocket, taking the whole idea of Arduino-based ...
Toyota Enters the Space Game With $44 Million Rocket Investment
Woven by Toyota, a subsidiary of the company, is investing around $44.4 million (7 billion yen) in Japanese space startup ...
Dayton Daily News1mon
Spreading a love for model rockets, one liftoff at a time
Long before model rockets became Randy Boadway’s business, it was his hobby. Now Boadway shares that hobby with hundreds of beginners every year, both through his company, eRockets, and through ...
Hackaday4y
Advanced Model Rocket Flight Computer Reaching For The Stars
When you’re building and launching a variety of advanced model rockets like [Joe Barnard], you don’t want to spend time building (and debugging) specialized flight computers for every rocket ...