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Starlink. Elon Musks global coverage satellites.

Elon is launching 12,000 satellites to provide global internet access. What could possibly go wrong? https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/05/elon-musk-starlink-internet-satellites-trouble-for-astronomy-light-pollution/ And no-ones even considered what you could do with with 12,000 satellites with phased grid antennas working together.  Like an array of radio-astronomy telescopes only as a targeted downlink signal.  Am I paranoid?  Time will tell. "Who knows which way the wind blows"

Smoking

Most rockets leave a nice smoke trail to follow. A Hybrid running on Nitrous Oxide and a polypropylene fuel grain is almost smokeless. This makes it difficult to track visually. Does anyone have thoughts on tracking smoke for a hybrid rocket motor?  At the launch at Thunad down Under to 26,220 AGL it disappeared pretty quickly once launched from the pad.

Karls Launch update

On the weekend of 1st/ 2nd June 2013 the ashes of Karl McManus were launched at Williams Wildfire in Western Australia.  The launch was a Tripoli WA launch.   All scheduled events occured at the correct time.  Flight was to 12000 ft and all of the rocket was safely landed about 700m away.

So long Karl.

 

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Hello and welcome to RocketScientist.com.au

This site was primarily about my journey to launch the ashes of my good friend Karl McManus who died of Lyme disease.  You start out on a journey like this without realising the full implications, not least of which was to get Level3 certification for high powered rocketry.  I chose to go the hybrid route as it seemed less expensive.  It is less expensive, but throws up a number of other factors one of which is the complexity involved.

It has evolved into a site about hybrid rocketry and to prove that Hybrids are better than solid motor propellants.

This is NSW Rocketrys' Mullaley High Power launch site.

Pretty close to perfect.

[caption id="attachment_206" align="aligncenter" width="640"]Mullaley Launch Site Mullaley Launch Site[/caption]

 

Here's a video of my launch there

 

[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sluGB9Tn_k[/embed]

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