The nose cone for his rocket is quite large, so he opted to give it a secure payload area that doesn’t compromise or interfere with any of the structural or operational bits such as the parachute.

The rockets will carry 18 payloads designed and built by the Ball Intern Rocket Science Team and K-12 student teams from across the country. Each payload is judged on design, testing and performance.

Khalimonov’s design was the first of its kind in the IREC and he was asked to present a podium session on it so that other students could learn about how he had made his idea a reality. ‘Testing is ...

Classroom Activity for the NOVA program MARS Dead or Alive: In Slowing Things Down, students investigate three variables affecting a parachute's rate of descent and then design a parachute that ...

One just launched the world’s biggest rocket, with mixed success. The other makes small model rockets for hobbyists, and it’s stockpiling supplies ahead of Trump’s tariffs.

Students from Boulder High, Lafayette’s Peak to Peak Charter School and Louisville’s Monarch High are sending projects they designed up above 10,000 feet on United Launch Alliance’s Fut… ...

Classroom Activity for the NOVA program MARS Dead or Alive: In Slowing Things Down, students investigate three variables affecting a parachute's rate of descent and then design a parachute that ...