Progress

//Wednesday Nov 2nd-// Picked up some Balsa wood to use for the fins on our rocket, can't decide whether to build our body out of cardboard or a piece of PVC pipe at the moment, haven't quite figured out what to use for the nose cone but all in all productive day!

//Thursday Nov 3rd-// Decided to make two rockets, one out of PVC pipe and the other out of a cardboard mailing tube, making two to test out which one will fly better come launch day. Cut out the fins for our one rocket out of Balsa wood and made the device that will hold the rocket engine and keep it stable in the body tube.



//Friday Nov 4th-// Glued the fins on to both of our rocket bodies, found a nose cone for the PVC pipe rocket, using a bingo dabber lid. Made the parachutes for both of the rockets. Just need to start putting the last pieces together and our rockets will be pretty much complete.



//Saturday Nov 5th-// attached the parachutes to each of the rockets, they are now able to be launched, all we really need to do now is paint them and they will be good to go.

//Sunday Nov 6th -// Both rockets are completely painted and straws have been attached. very closed to being completely finished, just a few more minor things to paint and they'll be done!



//Monday Nov 7th-// Both of our rockets are complete, now it is just time to launch them and hope it goes well!



//Tuesday Nov 8th-// Launched our rockets for the first time. they both took off but recovery system failed to deploy until they were on the ground.Time to go back and try to fix things so our rockets will fly properly. Videos posted below.

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//Wednesday Nov 9th-// After school we fixed our parachute, shown below is a picture of the parachute and strings attached to the elastic. Elastic had not been attached to the rocket yet, newer pictures will be posted of the rocket with the group. We abandoned the cardboard rocket and are putting all of our hopes in our plastic PVC rocket, hopefully it works!



//Thursday Nov 10th-// Launch Day!!! our launch was a success, we launched the rocket two times, both times it went up, recovery system deployed and it came down safely. Was a lot of fun! Below is a video of our second launch! Our first launch we used a C6-5 engine so it stayed in the air a while longer. The first launch our rocket went up and over the school and the parachute brought it down safely. On the second launch we used a B6-3 engine so it didn't stay in the air quite as long, but the parachute came out and brought it down safely!

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