S Motor Rocket Flies To 188,000 Feet

[@karlrobinson4887]

Let's give it up for that minimum diameter O 3400 attempt at 3:20. Dude built that in his garage. Nose cone sheared off at Max Q from what I understand. Fins held tight even through the shred.

[@RocketVlogs]

And the ballistic recovery! All the fins were still attached after impact

[@johnnyRandomadness]

Right that was a wonderful flight too jeez.

[@johnnyRandomadness]

@@RocketVlogs was it coning pretty badly at the beginning of its initial thrust?

[@baomao7243]

Welcome to the “rapid unplanned disassembly” club. It’s a rite of passage.

[@wfb_sage]

Good video! Much better sound and much sharper than live-stream. Nice to see the team doing some prelim work and at the pad stuff. Well done!

[@RocketVlogs]

Unfortunately the stream quality was the best we could get with the internet services out there. It's a bummer!

[@NSBlack_Stallion]

Good production. Thanks for not having music that makes me want to claw my eyes out from the back.

[@Luke_SkyWalk3r]

That almost took off quicker than my dad when he went to get smokes and never came back.

[@YIKO-1]

Well dang

[@az_pit_viper4270]

🤣🤣🤣

[@karlrobinson4887]

Oof!

[@kylesundell1554]

After seeing your baby pictures Im doubtful that's possible.😉😁

[@Fchejrjfjdifjrbfkfkftfrodjdbdj]

Yea he found out that your mom is pregnant again. So he went to get them smokes in another state 😳. I JUST FOUND OUT THAT THE MAILMAN IS MY FATHER AND HE RAN OFF TOO ! PROBABLY NEEDED TO DELIVER SOME BAD NEWS TO ANOTHER PERSON 😪

[@nagjrcjasonbower]

Awesomesauce! That was one fast homesick angel. Super well done guys!!!

[@tetra3ne56scur3]

Go big!! You should of put a camera on it, so we see a view of the stratosphere push the envelope you might get it to orbit.

[@luizao8148]

Wooooooooow I can't imagine how proud The team were with themselves. And should be.

[@baactiba3039]

Holy crap. an S???? This is the boundary between amateur and commercial rocketry. This is insane.

[@shere_kan8329]

No it ain't, the limit before needing a launch licence is full T. And it took place at FAR's site in California

[@ToyotaTechnical]

@@shere_kan8329 Why do you have to go through a private company to get certified to build model rockets? What happens if you just build an S-class rocket and launch it in the middle of nowhere?

[@shere_kan8329]

@@ToyotaTechnical for Model rockets, you can just launch at your town's yard. But, for High Power Rockets, you are obligated to have a waiver from the FAA. It's the law

[@ToyotaTechnical]

@@shere_kan8329 Why do I have to go through a private company to get a certificate to then get a waiver from the FAA? Why can't I just get a waiver from the FAA with blueprints?

[@shere_kan8329]

@@ToyotaTechnical you definitely don't have to go through a company to get a waiver. It's just a reaal pain in the ass for normal people, so associations like Tripoli rocketry or the NAR do it for you, and you can launch at their clubs, during their events

[@SouthernCrossPyrotechnics]

Top form ! Well done to all involved 🤝

[@d.b.1176]

188,000 feet and almost mach 4, crazy!!!

[@nagjrcjasonbower]

Push this launch back a few decades and it might have scared a Blackbird... For a second anyway! 🖖🖖🖖

[@gordonpromish9218]

35.6 miles up... good god!

[@vertex3243]

mach 3.95 is insane

[@theflotheflo]

from 0 to 1000m/s in an instant

[@baomao7243]

Ludicrous Speed

[@SirWulfrick]

Some day I would love to see an S-motor launch in person. Daaaaaamn.

[@razoredgechris]

closest ive seen was a Q..

[@SirWulfrick]

@@razoredgechris I think M for me.

[@SirensAndAlarmsOfNorthernIL]

Man 20,000 feet in about 5 seconds is crazy. You know the engine is powerful af if it sounds like a fighter jet

[@kade426]

Sounds like someone is screaming like they're being stabbed in the background.

[@joshuakuehn]

You don't know anything about aerospace engineers LMAO. They get wild when their shit works. It's hilarious

[@CanalMedieval]

Great video, great accomplishment! What is the fuel used to launch these rockets?

[@aadamawad1647]

probably AP and HTPB or some other rubber

[@CanalMedieval]

@@aadamawad1647 Ok. Thank you.

[@TomSaywer-ro9yp]

Congratulations .it is massive. I was wondering how much it weighted this rocket. To reach this velocity. I

[@protoolsfanatic7276]

did it cause sonic boom on way back down? did it survive the fall? parachute?

[@chancezamora3645]

I just found the Tik tok and glad I did I want to join this ride with y'all and support it.

[@jasonvennard4550]

Nice video man, as usual. Thanks

[@PureNRG2]

The men see a rocket launch. The wives see all the vacations they never went on.

[@pyrovenom666]

Thats crazy like a missile that things crazy iv had small model rockets as a kid and there fun

[@johnnyRandomadness]

Closer to a space launch vehicle than a missile

[@Lfs1891]

Astronaut farmer is my favorite movie.

[@سجاد-ش1ث7ذ]

What are the components of rocket fuel?

[@papakrakazyabrika]

Это очень круто .👍👍👍

[@BrianKelsay]

Nice telemetry readout. Was it safely recovered? Did they use any gyro stabilizers?

[@Buschwick]

Is that break in the smoke at exactly 7:43 the sound barrier? That was bookended by two periods of transonic instability?

[@rubenpena1014]

Is that made or carbon fibre or fibre glass?

[@johndoe528]

Did I hear correctly at 8:20, 120 G's of acceleration?

[@RocketVlogs]

Yes

[@johndoe528]

@@RocketVlogs that's amazing... over 1km/s^2 of acceleration.

[@darrellkendall5347]

Should have had a camera or 2 on it

[@USNVA11]

^^^ Looks at 44 year old D motor Estes V2 sitting on a shelf and weeps …. 🥺

[@kb3byu]

The D was too rich for my blood when I was a kid

[@diggybean2705]

I want to know about the recovery

[@Htiler]

Where did it go? Gone forever.

[@jason_farns]

Cool launch and burn. Even with bunkers and such, don't know that I'd want to be that close to it at ignition as good as the view is. Wouldn't want it to be my last.

[@michaelwallis1130]

F.A.R. (where they launched) has lots of hardened infrastructure. They have lots of safety rules. They're good people. And video teams have telephoto lenses - everyone was safe.

[@kn761]

It's not a bomb. Sure it could burst, but it could never release all its energy at once.

[@AlChemicalLife]

This is my dream ... one day ! :)

[@robertallison9653]

Amazing performance!

[@kareemsalessi]

7:46 in 10 seconds, it was already at 20,000 feet. Compare that with Apollos taking over 10 seconds just to clear their 100-meter launch tower😊

[@RocketVlogs]

The Saturn V weighed 6.2 million pounds and had people onboard, this rocket does not. That's not really a reasonable comparison lol

[@kareemsalessi]

@RocketVlogs Sir, what do you believe is the minimum TWR a rocket needs to launch, at least for that first 100 meters???

[@RocketVlogs]

@@kareemsalessi 120 to 1

[@kareemsalessi]

@@RocketVlogs TWR==120 minimum for a rocket to go up just 100 meters??? Wow.

[@MelloGee33]

Bullet the blue sky?

[@airraptor]

Is this a Estes rocket? can you buy it at hobby lobby?

[@steve2736]

I am speechless…

[@crixmorgan]

why didn't you show the part in the video where it came back ballistic?

[@RocketVlogs]

Because that part of the video doesn't exist

[@johnnyRandomadness]

@@RocketVlogs xD

[@FredFruehauf]

Did they recover it?

[@markfoster6300]

Did you get it back? In one piece, congrats for 184,000 feet

[@klaus6178]

What kind of fuel did this rocket burn?

[@tomsteve3804]

more than likely this was an ammonium perchlorate solid propellant motor

[@grumpyg9350]

Was there on footage?

[@mongstyt9946]

Countdown: 7:18

[@skeggjoldgunnr3167]

At 0:17 - blue painters masking tape covering what can ONLY be rollerons. Huh? How 'bout them there gee golly Green Bay Packers there hey!?....

[@RocketVlogs]

That's what they can ONLY be, huh? The tape is holding the foam on the fins (which are just fins, by the way) to protect anyone working on the rocket from the extremely sharp edges. You didn't notice that they came off? But you're so observant!

[@skeggjoldgunnr3167]

@@RocketVlogs Hey I'm just looking for your top-secret sorcery, as to how you pulled off such a beautiful flight. One must use ALL the tricks to get it THIS good! Congrats. ...no rollerons, hmm. I would like to see some active stabilization systems in action. They're REALLY cool, too!

[@charlesspringer4709]

People! Turn off auto-focus. How hard is that for rocket scientists?

[@RocketVlogs]

It was off. The rocket started to get out of focus because it was traveling thousands of miles an hour and 50,000 feet in the air.

[@charlesspringer4709]

@@RocketVlogs Oh? Is that why the Moon or fighter jets are so blurry?

[@kevinl2482]

⁠@@charlesspringer4709The moon moves probably millionths of a % distance wise from us. That rocket moved hundreds of thousands of %. It's not about the raw number of distance, it's all relative to the camera. This is common sense, don't need to be a photographer to understand that.

[@baactiba3039]

Where was this?

[@michaelwallis1130]

Friends of Amateur Rocketry (F.A.R.), Mojave, California

[@kayboku7281]

well done!

[@Southwest_Trailblazers]

Wow…. it launched at 7:37

[@74KU]

Spy balloons be fucked.

[@MT-THNDR207]

Better watch out Putin!

[@a-fl-man640]

that took some time and money

[@PurpleFinchFarm]

How to ruin an amazing rocket launch with a pile of meaningless corporate doublespeak.

[@rm25088]

wow that is crazy

[@bulruq]

So...Did you get it back??

[@thebakedcattato]

very cool

[@KillyOnTerra]

Insane

[@derekc180]

Pics from space or it didn’t happen

[@RocketVlogs]

188,000 feet isn't space.

[@karmasurge4842]

dayum! what hobbie store sells this rocket?

[@lekerbal52]

Amazing

[@Dawna-y2c]

Hypersonic

[@rezakhanish]

اوصیکم بتقوی لله و نظم امرکم 🤗

[@baomao7243]

I guess hypersonic rockets really are a thing. Incredible apogee. 😉

[@jamesmaddison4546]

hypersonic rockets have been a thing since the start man. just look up the speeds of the early rockets. then things like the v2. jupiter, russian orbital rockets, saturn, soyuz, shuttle, all of it goes hypersonic. always has. the hypersonic race happening today is completely different. the race today is for WITHIN ATMOSPHERE hypersonic flight with completely maneuverable platforms to avoid any defenses etc. this is incredibly hard because in the atmosphere means significant heating on the bodies, maneuvering add those speeds adds extreme stresses and so on. this is what militaries are pursuing. the public hear it and think hypersonic rocket flight is a new thing. i mean like cmon, you know what orbital velocity is right? 17,500mph around. youre wayyyy deep into hypersonic flight at those speeds

[@TheExplosiveGuy]

​@@jamesmaddison4546 To add to your info, another benefit with in-atmo hypersonic missiles is the massive increase to it's Specific Impulse over conventional solid or liquid fueled rockets, since the rocket only needs to carry fuel after the first stage has brought the missile up to speed for the ramjet to take over, the distance the missile can fly is much higher than a conventional ballistic missile since all it's oxygen is coming from the atmosphere instead of onboard tanks, so the fuel tanks can be enlarged to fill the volume oxygen normally would. It would be like the difference between using bottled high pressure air to run a car, no matter how much volume of that car you fill with compressed air, or even cryogenic liquid air (assuming the fuel tank is optimized/stoichiometric to the air supply), it won't run anywhere near as long as it would running from atmospheric air, since the car can be optimized to carry more fuel with the increased volume that the air tanks would have occupied. They're actually quite terrifying if you ask me, a nuclear missile traveling at Mach 10 with at _least_ the maneuverability of a fighter jet makes me go a little pale...

[@Ferdidnot707]

Is this r candy

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

@RocketVlogs >>> 👍👍

[@Alex-fh2th]

Вышла на орбиту Земли.... , поэтому и не вернулась...))

[@ZZ430T56]

Nice project and flight. An S class motor alone is bigger than the whole rocket though.

[@RocketVlogs]

An S class motor IS the whole rocket.

[@anandacartor2215]

7:36

[@satweavers1]

No onboard camera? BOOO!!!

[@RobertKelly-it8wm]

❤😊my name is Bernard Von brown, I have always been an engineer, building rockets for tha Nazis

[@donaldbell9102]

Can these guys get over themselves. Bla bla bla

[@earnestbunbury2103]

Easy to tell the world is flat from up there...

[@jimveybe7689]

The toys of the rich. The rest of us work.

[@RocketVlogs]

This IS there work and they're some of the hardest working guys I know. www.evolutionspace.com/

[@d.jensen5153]

More work and fewer excuses, Jim Veybe.

[@manifestgtr]

Why do you assume these guys are rich? And why are you even watching this? Your remark comes off as angry and bitter about some goal you never achieved…

[@jimveybe7689]

@@manifestgtr So the 95% of us who work are angry and bitter? Thanks for the chuckle! Click.

[@manifestgtr]

@@jimveybe7689 No, none of this has ANYTHING to do with “working”…I don’t know where you’re getting that from. *That’s* what makes you bitter and angry. You’re hostile for no apparent reason

[@mmonroe4738]

🥱😴

[@jamesfrost7465]

I like the large spinning rockets from Taiwan and Thailand much much better than these. Search, 'Spinning Rockets,' if you havent seen them.

[@sysublime5091]

I fllew F18s in the Navy. A Aim 9X sidewinder has a further range. And will travel in a straight line.

[@RocketVlogs]

An AIM-9X's stated range of "more than 10 miles" as stated by the US Air Force is less than half the altitude achieved by this sounding rocket, which, by the way, isn't a missile lol. Moreover, the entire point of a Sidewinder is it's ability to NOT fly straight, lol.

[@taufiqulmowla9897]

7:36

[@taufiqulmowla9897]

3:22