The science pros at TKOR launch a DIY sugar rocket that soars 1,000 feet into the sky. Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum tells Trump, "we're no one's piñata" ...

Fortunately, we've found four of the best homemade designs. Skip to main content. Menu ... When constructed properly, a sugar rocket has the ability to travel up to 2,000 feet on a single charge.

The Sugar Powered Rocket Motor says “Boom!” Firstly, a stranded Martian would need rocket fuel. If you recall the 1999 movie October Sky, four high school kids used table sugar as their fuel.

And because that sugar doesn’t pack the same energy-to-weight ratio punch as actual rocket fuel, this hypothetical Saturn V would have to carry 285 metric tons more fuel than the real one.

For the propellent grains, the PVC rocket didn’t use the usual potassium nitrate and sugar mixture of so many homebrew solid rockets. Instead, it uses Sorbitol, an artificial sweetener.

CopSub volunteers John Bjerregaard and Peter Scott connect two tanks from the DIY Spica rocket in 2021 in Copenhagen. The group’s ultimate goal is to launch a human to the Earth-space boundary ...