UKAYRoC 2009 Winners
Submitted by Cath Bashford on Mon, 06/04/2009 - 10:05.
Winning TeamCongratulations to The Royal Liberty School in Romford the 2009 winners of the UK Aerospace Youth Rocketry Challenge.
On April 2nd 2009 at Charterhouse School, Surrey, 20 teams from across the UK gathered for the final of the 2009 UK Aerospace Youth Rocketry Challenge.
Royal Liberty School Team 1, from Romford in Essex, took home the winner's trophy by completing the contest's task most successfully. Teams had to build and test their rockets trying to meet the mission requirements of carrying 1 raw egg to reach exactly 750 feet with flight duration of exactly 45 seconds from lift-off to touchdown. The egg has to travel perpendicular to the flight of the rocket and returned undamaged back to earth.
UKAYRoC finalists announced
Submitted by Cath Bashford on Tue, 10/03/2009 - 16:30.
The Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC), Tri Polus Ltd, UK Rocketry Association (UKRA), Space Connections and the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) are pleased to announce the 20 finalists for the third UK Aerospace Youth Rocketry Challenge (UKAYRoC) – to be held on April 2nd 2009 at Charthouse School, Surrey.
A record number of teams registered to participate in the qualification process covering a large number of regions.
UK Rocketry in the news
Submitted by Mike Roberts on Thu, 19/02/2009 - 09:28.Major news today on the Flight International site with announcements of BNSC (British National Space Centre) funding of the newly dubbed "Launcher One" which will cover the whole of it's development by SSTL (Surrey Satellite Technology Limited ). Launcher One will be air launched from Virgin's White Knight Two. Read more here at Flight Global
Flight International also has an annoucement of ESA funding, to the tune of 1 million Euros, for Reaction Engines and the development of their Sabre engine. An ingeneous air breathing rocket engine. This is excellent news indeed. This money is likely, among other research work, to help fund the development of the ED nozzle mentioned in an earlier news item.
London Model Engineering Exhibition 09 UKRA Stand
Submitted by Mike Roberts on Mon, 19/01/2009 - 01:24.A small band of UKRA members spent the last few days at Alexandra Palace. They were attending the London Model Engineering Exhibition with the UKRA display stand to promote rocketry to the public.
It was a great chance to talk rockets to folks, many of whom didn't realise that rocketry existed as a hobby. There was a lot of interest from visitors to the stand, young and old. Hybrid rocket motors and their workings proved to be a popular topic. There was also a lot of jaw dropping, gasping and general amazement at Richard Brown's part-built "Oi Oi Savaloy" rocket which we just managed to squeeze on to the stand.
UKRA S&T Chair talks about his work on the STERN motor
Submitted by Mike Roberts on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 11:43.The excellent SPACE.CO.UK site has a very interesting interview with UKRA's own chair of S&T, Richard Osborne, discussing his involvement with Reaction Engines development work on their STERN motor. This uses a novel ED (Expansion Deflection) nozzel which compenstaes for atmospheric pressure changes with altitude.
SpaceX Achieve Orbit with Falcon 1
Submitted by Mike Roberts on Mon, 29/09/2008 - 09:05.Internet millionaire Elon Musk has finally done it with the sucessful launch in to orbit of his Falcon 1 rocket this morning. It was the 4th attempt with the previous 3 having failed.
Congratulations to SpaceX it is an awesome achievement.
More news and videos in due course on the SpaceX website.
http://www.spacex.com/
