We have touchdown! 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 ...

For this early prototype, power is solely from hobby rocket motors, providing thrust for 1.6 seconds, meaning flight times are necessarily short. The craft is launched from an aluminium profile ...

Abstract: On team PRIUS, our goal is to take tried-and-true heritage knowledge of hobby rocket airframe design and build upon it to construct an airframe that interfaces with the systems being ...