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Rocket Launch for Friday Morning Lights on ABC 27

9/29/2017

ABC 27 wasconducting a live broadcast this morning at Spring Grove High School for their Friday Morning Lights segment. Members of the rocketry team were interviewed and then a launch was recorded after the live segment ended. The launch will air sometime after 11:30pm tonight on ABC 27 as they are discussing the results of the Friday high school football games.

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Rocket Launch at Windy Hill Senior Center

9/28/2017

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After a couple hours of building, we took the rockets outside to launch them. Most were very straight launches, some had parachute deployment issues, but everyone had a great time. Surprisingly, 10 out of 11 of the new Estes starters fired. It was a good day.

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Rocket Building Workshop at Windy Hill Senior Center

9/27/2017

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Members of the SLI team had the pleasure of working with seniors yesterday to build and launch a rocket. The scratch built kits were designed by the team. Everyone had a great time during the building process and later in the morning, the rockets were launched. Hopefully we will have a strong fundraising season in order to purchase parts and offer the workshop again in the spring. If you would like to make a donation to support this program, please click on the blue box at the right to be directed to our Paypal link.

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Other photos from the launch.

9/21/2017

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Just wrapping up the ESL 230 launch. It was a great day to launch and hope for pleasant weather again next month.

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The executioner flies on last time.

9/20/2017

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Last year, we showed you the launch of the first CO2 powered ejection system rocket that we have flown built by our aerospace engineering class. This month it might have flow for the last time. There was a perfect ascent and two rounds of ejection charges, While the parachute came out, it got tangled in the parachute pouch and the rocket took a hard hit on landing. Probably will not save this one.

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Some more MDRA ESL 230 launches

9/19/2017

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These videos are filmed at 240fps. I love the detail of the high speed video. Sometimes I will also post videos shot at 480fps, but quality decreases with speed.

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TARC 2017 flight with attitude!

9/18/2017

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This month we took at TARC 2017 Nationals rocket and flew it with a Cesaroni F240 Vmax motor! While it still has nearly the same impulse, it was pulling over 50G coming off the pad! Now that is some serious attitude. This tis the 4th time this rocket has flown with this motor. All perfect flights and all without damage, We would love to fly these motors in TARC!

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Motor failure on level 1 attempt

9/15/2017

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While there will be more photos and videos next week, This one was very interesting and I saved it for Friday. The rocket separated on the pad and video plays slow enough that you can see the motor still on the blast shield after the rocket lifts up. Near the end of the video, the motor casing and reload fall to the ground. No forward closure on the casing, delay element drilled out completely, seal failure, you be the judge.

Below the video are photos of the rockets that were taken at MDRA and might be featured in a video next week.

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More launches from this Saturday

9/13/2017

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All week we will feature launch videos and photos from the MDRA launch on Sept 10.

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First Launch

9/12/2017

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The 2018 NASA SLI team is hard at work on their proposal that is due next week. The team also had their first launch of the year this past weekend. New team members learned a lot about preping a rocket for launch and rocket recovery. The team successully launched 4 rockets including the NASA SLI 2016 full scale rocket from team Darwin and the NASA SLI 2017 subscale rocket from team Triton.

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Spring Grove Rockets
Wall of FAME

Spring Grove Area Middle School Places First in Target Altitude and Second in Deployable Payload at the Battle of the Rockets! 4/6/25

SPring Grove Middle School Places Second in the Country at The American Rocketry Challenge!

SPRING GROVE HIGH SCHOOL is NASA Student launch altitude champions! Makes history with spot on 4500ft launch in Huntsville (2023)!

Battle of the Rockets 2022 and 2019 Mars Rover event Champions!

High school TARC team places 25th in the country!

Battle of the rockets 2019 target altitude champions!

9th place in TARC 2019!

Rocket Launch for Friday Morning Lights on ABC 27

Rocket Launch at Windy Hill Senior Center

Rocket Building Workshop at Windy Hill Senior Center

Other photos from the launch.

The executioner flies on last time.

Some more MDRA ESL 230 launches

TARC 2017 flight with attitude!

Motor failure on level 1 attempt

More launches from this Saturday

First Launch

Archives

Slow motion video of award winning flight from Huntsville, AL 2015

Award Winning Huntsville Flight 2015, regular speed

Spring Grove Rockets​ Wall of FAME

Spring Grove Area Middle School Places First in Target Altitude and Second in Deployable Payload at the Battle of the Rockets! 4/6/25

SPring Grove Middle School Places Second in the Country at The American Rocketry Challenge!

SPRING GROVE HIGH SCHOOL is NASA Student launch altitude champions! Makes history with spot on 4500ft launch in Huntsville (2023)!

Battle of the Rockets 2022 and 2019 Mars Rover event Champions!

High school TARC team places 25th in the country!

Battle of the rockets 2019 target altitude champions!

9th place in TARC 2019!

Archives

Slow motion video of award winning flight from Huntsville, AL 2015

Award Winning Huntsville Flight 2015, regular speed

Spring Grove Rockets
Wall of FAME