[ExI] Solid-fuel model rocket successfully lands like SpaceX!

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 09:34:51 UTC 2022


BPS.Space Successfully Lands A Model Rocket
by:  Danie Conradie    August 5, 2022

<https://hackaday.com/2022/08/05/bps-space-succesfully-lands-a-model-rocket/>
Quote:
Many things need to come together to launch AND land a rocket on
standard hobby-grade solid fuel rocket motors. A core component is
stabilization of the rocket during the entire flight, which was
achieved using a thrust-vectoring control (TVC) mount for the rocket
motors and a custom flight computer loaded with carefully tuned
guidance software.
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Since solid-fuel rockets can’t technically be throttled, this was the
final problem to be solved. On Twitter, Barnard added that "I had no
background in aero, electrical engineering, coding, etc. so it took a
lot of trial and error".

An amazing achievement for an amateur modeler!

BillK



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