In an interview with investigators, Lund said he was not aware of the term and said the devices were used to launch hobby rockets. The PVC pipe was later found to contain black-colored powder and ...

A few years back my son was given a ticket for launching a small Estes model rocket from a concrete pad in a Longmont park.

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 ...