Onboard Rocket Video - 30,000ft Disaster

[rottencactus28]

i see pyramids!!!

[TheNiggiboy]

wtf! 10 km!?

[dzdice]

"OMG WHAT IS THAT MASS COMING AT US!?...." "It's Earth you dumbass..!" 5* Vid!

[masteranger2]

Omfg!! That is crazy!! Space

[dudeman451]

just like i horror movie

[FlamingCatTurd]

It reminds me of mission breifing in Mechwarrior 3.

[dabears232323]

That awkward moment when you're on a commercial airliner at cruising altitude and you look out the window and see a rocket...

[456ner]

I hate losses of rockets. what cam is that and how much does it cost for that cam.

[pitkinator]

its a shame you went home with a bag of bits.it was nice to 30,000 with next to zero spin,very stable rocket

[WildBillHickums]

@pitkinator yea, that takes a brilliant knowledge in aerodynamics, some of these guys could have a job at nasa no problem.

[silvereagle2061]

I hate losses. Sorry this happened.

[noxnflame]

Was the video a live feed? If so what fpv gear did you use?

[MrZombiefacekillah]

Predator Missile inbound! D:

[PsiStarstormOmega982]

what happened to the camera

[buddtwin2]

What that fuck do u care if people are interested in the price

[knightben22]

errr, Houston, we have a problem.

[nickthemonkeyman1]

how much did it cost to launch just this rocket

[carmium]

@nickthemonkeyman1 Why do so many guys have to know what it cost? Rockets; race cars; model railways; RC planes, gliders, sailboats, tanks, battleships, off-road trucks, and semis; slot car tracks; live steam railways - anything that a guy has built with own two hands, people want to know "How much did it cost?"

[LucasDiasful]

VERY VERY NICE!

[Restart515]

I can see my house! ;)

[callofdutyhelp1]

not even 15000ft

[skinnywhop87]

lol that rocket kinda reminds me of a redbull can

[spesimen]

@jonalululy sorry it's not my video or rocket, so i can't say... some places that make the very high power commerical motors are aerotech-rocketry.. cesaroni..or amwprox ..

[spesimen]

@jonalululy some are made from kits, most will have some customization as well... homemade propellant is kind of uncommon since the time, risk and equipment needed to make it safely, isn't really worth the cost unless you have very specific application or needs. to fly that high legally you need a waiver from the FAA and also various certifications to buy the motors. check out the national association of rocketry site there's plenty of info on getting started

[bigrocket99]

HA! Some folks think an N-3500 could be limited to 3,000 ft!! With nearly 2,000 lbs of thrust, a rocket would have to weigh so much it would not be stable to keep it that low!.. Learn more by searching for more information online....

[Merlin5by5]

@bigrocket99

PRIMM LAKE? Las Vegas guy just wanting to know. I tend toward large rockets, not high ones, so I am impressed with 30,000 ft. Radio Altimeter, or flight line measured?

[r0ck3tsm0k3]

@bigrocket99 N-3500 in a pyramid rocket = about 300 feet stable. :)

[donperry1]

Big sigh @ 1:55

[thra5herxb12s]

Awesome!! You can actually see the curvature of the earth.....

[donperry1]

@thra5herxb12s I think thats' a function of the fish eye lense

[Dewwhisper]

well .. as they say, what goes up must come down .. awesome to see it realtime.

[mcfcguvnors]

awww dude unlucky awsome launch tho

[soverato3]

you can hit an airliner with that!!!! AWESOME!!!!

[Jthechosenone]

that was amazing, 1st model rocket video ive seen showing the earth from up up there

[smoshrules459]

@madmax10101 not WiFi... Unless WiFi transmits 30,000 feet. Which no WiFi I've heard or does.

[mikethenascarfan]

im guessing the parachute didnt deploy...

[lonstar70]

@mikethenascarfan I'm guessing you didn't read the description! :)

[Trekfreek]

@lonstar70 Remember you started it!

[kaylynnsdad]

that thing was falling sooo frickin fast!!

[edward5839]

i love that moment of silence when it starts going back down!

[KittyRokher]

How far from the launch site did it... land?

[oXFalconXo]

"sigh" back to the drawing board =P what is an N-3500 engine? Solid or liquid based?

[r0ck3tsm0k3]

@oXFalconXo Solid.

[biodot88]

What do you estimate the terminal velocity of the ballistic decent to be speedwise?

[themainproblem]

Nice video! Thanks for sharing it. I am sorry that it happend to you.

[ljsavmech]

you guys make a failure look outstanding. great vid guys just great I loved it

[LegacyForce]

How far did drift from the launch site?

[bigrocket99]

@LegacyForce About 1.8 Miles to the North East.

[LegacyForce]

I take it the parachute never deployed :(

[marioworld882]

actually those werent pyramids those were pyramid-like mountains

[adriiPortillo]

THIS IS SO COOL!!

[MatrixParadise]

Yeah, it was pretty cool, but how do you keep from hitting aircraft?!

[AerotechMan101]

You have to have an FAA window.

[bigrocket99]

@MatrixParadise This is only possible with clearance from the FAA, and a NOTAM for the area. Since this is northern Nevada, next to military airspace there is not much traffic there usually anyway. That is why it is such a great place to fly to 30, 40, or even 100k feet.

[4seampikachu]

Pretty sweet. It looks like you're in space. : )

[Riverboy1986]

Were those Pyramids at the end?

[FollowTheViking]

That was Old Razorback Mountain in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada

[Tikayyan]

I really liked this view better than the standard "to the rear" view. Nice to see the horizon and get a sense of the velocity going up.

[r0ck3tsm0k3]

One of the best rocketry videos ever made. I love the long coast time. Next time use 12 Grams of BP in surgical tubing mate... :) Deploy or blow it up trying is my motto.

[bigrocket99]

@r0ck3tsm0k3 You got it! You can hear the double charge going off and not having enough to make it separate. In the back yard the test threw two sleeping bag wrapped sections 30' apart.. I really thought it would be enough! WRONG! Probably have to try Tom Rouse's pressure based system or something..

[majorvoltage]

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­iiiiiit BANG!

[HaloNoobAlert]

that was so sweet watching it go up...

[omfgcrissangel]

N - 3500 = Nokia - 3500 lol

[pizzaking85]

Its just like airforce-one flys by and it land inside the motor of the plane!!! LOL I KILLKED OBAMA!!! LOL

[john1966elliott]

Yeah.. It is good job, Well Done..try reach 30,000 Feet or more. Not bad, You need upgrade good video.

[bigrocket99]

@john1966elliott Video was transmitted.. not bad quality on the way down considering the PATCH antenna was facing UP away from the receiver... 1 watt 2.4 Ghz system from wirelessvideocameras.. pretty neat stuff.

[peeeete]

great rocket, it's so lonely up there...

[matchbox2022]

I'd say thats past 10,000 feet for sure mate.

[johnbell58]

I doubt it went to 30K

up and back in that short of time?

3000 ft okay but 30k no way

[generalripper1964]

Talk a look out the window of an airliner sometime. You will see the curvature of the Earth , similar size of objects on the ground etc.

[bigrocket99]

@johnbell58 Have you ever flown a rocket to 3,000 ft? It is not very high. The surrounding hills are 2k higer than the playa..

[squidvis]

@kaziabir1 Nowhere near 3-5k it's AT LEAST 20k

Commercial airliners go around 30-40k and if you look out the window when there's no clouds then it looks just like 0:55.

[asteroceras]

I was the pilot on this space expedition. Fortunately, I managed to bail out before impact. We are trying again this summer.

[sking0369]

How is it that your noze cone is in good shape?

[tgonser]

This was a dual deployment recovery with small chute that was supposed to eject at apogee.. The nose cone end is where the main chute ejected at 1,000 ft. It shredded the chute, but the nose was only scratched a bit.

[kevozel]

yeah cause it hit the ground first?

[ephraim0000]

Whoa. Didnt think hobby rockets went up that high. Do you need some kind of special license for that?

[sking0369]

YES

[Willsonway]

that was pretty funny with the sigh when the pic of the rocket was shown . sorry about the crash though

[normellow]

Is that what you hear at apogee ? Those two short popping sounds .

[cdlldc111]

oops...

[r109]

To bad the rocket never deployed the parashoot.

[Lancecrafter]

Dude.  Great view. sorry for the crash.

[AerotechMan101]

If you fly that high you should use Co2

[Bentrot]

yes but the 2 CO2 charges they used werent enough..

[AerotechMan101]

oh, it was Co2? Wow,that's pretty bad

[bigrocket99]

@AerotechMan101 No - that was NOT C02 -- SHOULD HAVE BEEN!!

[fuadali16]

@bigrocket99 you are fucking amazing

[r0ck3tsm0k3]

Hmm just because it is the latest fad doesnt mean it is the only way. Black powder can be made to work at any altitude... Just takes a charge with some balls. A sealed film can full of black powder should do the trick.

[AerotechMan101]

Yes, but i have found in some cases, Co2 is more efficient, of course, i come up with a lot of crazy stuff

[bigrocket99]

@r0ck3tsm0k3 That is what I used. Then added MORE to make up for the altitude.. still did not work, tho it did in testing on the ground with PLENTY of power.

[Segasaturn95]

So, the propellent for recovery wasn't powerful enough to pop the nose cone off? If that's what happened, that's real sad considering how beautiful the flight was.

[DTHRocket]

How did the end of the motor get fried?

[r0ck3tsm0k3]

I think by fried, he means damaged from the impact.

I want to post this vid to my blog... how have I not seen this before today? :)

[Fredfredbug4]

that was nice sorry about the crash though I knew you worked hard on that. That was good footage. Next time maybe you could attach some kind of emergency shoot?b

[hellkid94]

how much did the gps cost?

[jmar1371]

Depends on which unit you get, but the whole schlemizel runs right around $1K, including the ground support equipment. HPR isn't cheap.

[EndeavourLaunch]

That would have been wicked it you made it a stage 2 rocket, have two stages, its been done before, got to near space.

[r0ck3tsm0k3]

Two stage rockets are done every day. They range from 1/4th A motors to (as of right now in the hobby) Q to P rockets. They have yet to go to space, however. But they would be one of the best ways to do it.

[EndeavourLaunch]

Actually they no joke did send one into Space not to long ago, it was actually a 3 stage or 4 stage rocket, Very high powered engines, sent it to about 86 KM above earth, barley in space and send it back down, never recovered. They had to get permission from the FAA too.

[AirsoftSeattleReveiw]

@EndeavourLaunch I know this is an old comment..but 86km isnt space. 100km is.

[EndeavourLaunch]

@AirsoftSeattleReveiw Wow your right! VERY OLD.

I think I was still in 9th grade when I wrote that, now I'm getting ready to graduate - and I know better.

[AerotechMan101]

ky michealson launched a rocket 380,000 feet with recovery look up first civilian rocket in space

[Omnigeek6]

Actually, multiple hobby rockets have reached space. The first to do so flew on an S motor.

[r0ck3tsm0k3]

Nope, only one did. One other got very close. Many flights have gotten to around 100,000 feet.

No S motor is a hobby rocket, it is an amateur rocket. The more you know...

[ljsavmech]

Steve Eves holds the world records for the tallest and heaviest amateur rocket ever successfully launched. The rocket was 36 feet (11 m) tall and weighed 1,648 pounds (748 kg).[1] On Saturday April 25, 2009 Eves launched the 1/10th scale replica of the Saturn V rocket 4,441 feet (1,354 m) into the air, and successfully recovered it

[jesusmendoza89]

how did the camera survived and they could get the film? or was it tranmiting to the ground?

[bigrocket99]

It was transmitting on 2.4Ghz video link. The transmitter was demolished.

[soccerstorm22]

how can you say the clouds are 25000, they can be anywhere from 30000 to ground level, fog.

[hhhhhhuu]

Defiantly not 30k liesss

[jagex1295]

you can see the clouds in it dope, those are usually at about 25000.

[bigrocket99]

You probably know more than I do about judging altitude from video, but the onboard GPS transmitter had a max altitude of 30,180.

[jmar1371]

And of course, you know more than the accelerometer based flight computer and the GPS unit...

30K at Black Rock is nothing. We do it all the time. Come out next June and watch us do 86K with a 2 stage project. For thse that flunked 2nd grade, that's 17 miles, straight up...

[ctech14367]

whats the disaster????? you know this is bound to happen

[chaosopher23]

Disaster = wreckage of an expensive homemade spaceship. I don't see how it's rebuildable, or even useful for parts. Nice display trophy, though. I hope he does it again, but this time without the spaceship wrecking.

[Omnigeek6]

what do you mean it's bound to happen? The rocket is supposed to be recovered via parachute, not just come in ballistic.

[IGMD80]

How much this rocket cost?

[garret239shotjkl]

pretty cool post ground footage

[OwnaDge]

dude thatlooked like it was in space?

[GIOKMAN]

if that was30000ft then im the pope of rome

[IGMD80]

Hi Joseph!

[just1ofgod]

lmao nice

[TIRrocketry]

@GIOKMAN hello Mr. Pope...

[DMarc85]

Great liftoff. I can't believe you salzaged any footage off that. KFA!

[bigrocket99]

@DMarc85 The video was transmitted realtime.. Othewise there would be no video!!

[madmax10101]

@bigrocket99

Did U use WI-FI or normal radio for video transmition??

[Alexpaths]

At least something survived. I have had friends do L1's that go ballistic from only 2K and we still only find the fins. Then again, I fly on softer ground.

[Dragon22873]

woot =]

[Bothanstreet]

that relly go 30000 ft?

[furgee]

I would love to see the ground footage of that.

[UKrocketeer]

well that hurts, it freefell for about 40 seconds and took about 10 seconds to get up there

[tgonser]

no, it got up a little faster. I removed some of the video that was snowy due to video transmission