“Look what a jet pack I have!” - “Ha, look what a rocket I have!” (Notes from the rocket-making championship)

In the abandoned Soviet camp near Kaluga called the Millennium Falcon, the first All-Russian Rocketry Championship took place. I asked for it too, because the jetpack is closer to the missiles than to the aircraft. Yes, and look at 10 year olds who collect a really working gizmo from scotch, drawing paper and a plastic bottle, and a little older comrades firing a 400-meter rocket is worth it.

Summary:
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Tracks

Competitions were held on three tracks.

• “Water rocket” - for schoolchildren 10-14 years.
• “Solid propellant rockets” - participants age 14-17 years.
• “Open skies” for student teams preparing for international competitions (flight up to 10,000 meters).

Water missiles

From the Soviet childhood, when plastic bags were still washed and dried on clothespins, and tin jars of forfeits and beer were elite items of collectible luxury, I remember just such a thing:



And then plastic bottles appeared and the golden era of water rockets began.



Punk style rocket.



One of the world's largest water missiles.




But such a water rocket took off at 534 meters:


Prize $ 10,000 for the highest flight:


How to build a twin-engine water rocket:


Even NASA has water missile manuals :

As we had

Age of participant: 10-14 years

The first step . It was necessary to design and build a water rocket with
electronic onboard system and rescue mechanism based on the designer (Arduino).

The second step . It is necessary to design and build a rocket without a designer (self-developed) with an electronic on-board system and a rescue mechanism. There are no restrictions on the design. The task is to reach the maximum height.

Correspondence tour and video reports:

Solid propellant rockets

The first step . It is necessary to design and build a rocket with a launch weight of up to 1150 with an electronic control system and a rescue mechanism based on the Arduino designer .

The second step . Design and build a proprietary rocket (without the use of a designer) with an electronic control system and a rescue mechanism.
* In the second stage are allowed the teams that have passed the first stage, or student teams.


We fly here on such engines:




and here on these:






An approximate schedule of thrust.

Fuses:



This is how the engine works:


And then a crazy experiment with a solid rocket engine:

Open sky

Student teams preparing for international IREC competitions
Design and construction of a rocket for flights to an altitude of 3,000 to 10,000 meters with 1.5 kg of payload on board.

The cost of starting a rocket with the engine: 24 000 rubles.



So is the international championship in America.

The Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition has been held since 2006.




Beginning in 2017, the ESRA's Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) has become the Spaceport America Cup (SA Cup).

Non-competitive participation "Master"

If you suddenly have more than 23 years and you want to build rockets, then you can register a team on any of the tracks, specifying the category "Master". But starts at his own expense. The cost of solid fuel engines from 5,000 to 35,000 rubles.

News from the fields

School of schoolchildren with supervisors arrived and began to get stuff from these boxes of junk.

And collect your rockets.



Scotch, drawing paper, plastic bottle ...



... and a little arduino - the rocket is ready.

But these guys just do Ilona Mask:









And girls.

The first test launches at the airport

It was raining and a water rocket.







“To know the way and go through it is not the same thing.”

The collision with reality has benefited many rocket men. Someone finally understood why a parachute is needed.

Finalization of the missiles before the final

3D printer prints for a long time ... you can think about all those years ... about all ten ...



Master class on RimWorld until printed fairing on a 3D printer:

- Where is your dog?
- Here, she died.
- Why did she die?
“That's why she died, I buried here.”



All to whom not laziness joked about "Space Y".

Second run on the airfield and final launches

A team of girls, one of them is 10 years old. Waiting for their turn.



Contacts for remote start.



The pilot is trying to escape from the rocket.



Red button.



Remote control launch.



Take care of your baby.



"The rocket with the wrong formulas." Trying to tune electronics before the start, although it is raining.



At the start you need to come with a fully assembled rocket, but as always.



Is it even?



Vzhzhzhuuuuh!



And then the rockets began to land ...



Original housing design. But if the parachute is not released - cranes.



Sometimes the parachute was released, but it did not open - also cranes.



And again.



And again.



In one of the landed rockets, we actually found an earthworm.

Behind the scenes were the search teams that ran through the swamp and dug out the fairings, climbed birches for payload. There were those who successfully took off and landed, but who cares?



It was fun and inspirational.

I hope that the rockets will fly to the Moon and Mars, and not the neighboring continents.

The most important thing

Lunch at the airport.

mass media

• sochisirius.ru/news/2688
• obninsk.bezformata.com/listnews/raketostroeniyu-raketostroitelnij/71128822
• rsci.ru/grants/grant_news/284/241471.php
• www.skoltech.ru/2019/05/21-komanda-zapustila-rakety-v-finale-sorevnovanij-raketnogo-dvizheniya

Contact organizers

• www.facebook.com/spacecontest
• vk.com/spacecontestru
• www.gorocket.ru
• hello@gorocket.ru

PS

A rocket got stuck on a tree, a parachute got tangled, and everyone began to call me together, because I have a jetpack. But I still do not know how to fly, but I can tie the apparatus to the uneven bars: