USC Student Rocket Group Shatters Amateur International Space Record

[@WeSwapVoices]

Incredible work. Really inspiring.

[@ianglenn2821]

143 km, very nice, higher than the altitude where rockets usually do staging

[@akiraic]

and they made it pointy 😂

[@jimurrata6785]

Tremendous accomplishment! Congratulations to the whole team at USC.🎉 It gives me hope to see the next generation taking on challenges and breaking records. Would love to know something more about their propellant composition, Isp and total newtons. (they did say it was the largest non-commercial motor, but the all up weight doesn't seem to reflect that)

[@n1vg]

Congrats! That's 89 MILES straight up!

[@Lleywyn]

That's badass. Great job.

[@berserkerusmc7613]

Great achievement! Now , follow that with a video that doesn't tell the story with huge text that blocks all the cool footage.

[@richlo8887]

Keep crying, snowflake. 🤡

[@Illuminati2]

bro relax damn

[@berserkerusmc7613]

@Illuminati2 That's me relaxed.

[@Barbixas_pt]

​@@Illuminati2 He is right you know! Also the music doesn't let you hear the roar of the rocket engine, very anti-climatic!!

[@berserkerusmc7613]

@@Barbixas_pt Thank you !

[@MoniqueCBaisden]

This is so incredibly dope! Congrats on this phenomenal acoomplishment!

[@kevinjensen9803]

Fabulous rocketry - congratulations!

[@Anonymous-lw1zy]

Super impressive!!! Congratulations!!!

[@Theoblade01]

Very cool stuff. I wonder how far the nosecone landed from the launch site.

[@olddoc1]

Congratulations on an amazing achievement!

[@TheButterZone]

Hope you make it on This Week In Spaceflight!

[@peterkrause5187]

Take that Flat and Level Earth Observers!!!!! Well done guys!

[@reaper_taco]

Looked pretty flat to me.

[@peterkrause5187]

​@@reaper_taco😂😂😂😂😂

[@loliconer]

@@reaper_taco this is all probably because he is flat

[@Viperwon]

So sick. Where any parts 3d printed?

[@HikariSakai]

Can you upload the full raw footage of the crafts pov so we can disprove these flat earthers

[@allan640]

Oooh no don't do that, I need some entertainment

[@HikariSakai]

@@allan640 lol but my dad wont stop trying to convince me the world is flat and its driving my ass crazy lol

[@philperry6564]

They don't care. Any evidence that has been presented was shrugged off by them.

[@HikariSakai]

@@philperry6564 but atleast my dad will believe it, that's all that matters to me lol I need to shut his ass up about it

[@PhotoXpression1]

These students are smarter than the whole flat-earth community combined!

[@bereabeard]

Most goldfish are as well! 😆

[@loliconer]

every flat earther has about a hundred times more convolutions in his head than you

[@DanielSMatthews]

Not at all, the flat Earthers are just trolls, and they fooled you into thinking that they really believe what they claim. The point of the exercise is to live in your head rent free, which clearly they are.

[@distimpson]

every model rocket builders dream, well done

[@paulbaker6458]

What type of camera and lens was used?

[@michaelcassidy4095]

Flat earthers are still gonna deny a curve tho...

[@loliconer]

the curvature here is only in your iq

[@chrisvalleqatsi]

FLIGHT ON!✌

[@kevindavis883]

Good job you guys

[@allan640]

Where did the nose land at? Obviously from the footage you were able to retrieve it. Or had some excellent wirless transmitters in that it😅

[@douxreveur131]

Félicitations :)

[@varunahlawat169]

Crazy

[@OhMyGeekNET]

Kudos! 🚀

[@cronoscoin417]

Full video?

[@-2ool]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYvIppSPaK2If9E

[@thorsmith59]

Awesome!

[@louissivo9660]

Bravo!

[@warrenbaker4124]

Wow!! Fantastic work!! This may be a crazy question (I'm ignorant. . .) but, next could you get a rocket to the moon? It seems like you only need the propellant to escape Earth's gravity and then maybe you could use an ionic system? Either way, this is an amazing feat - I can't imagine how much work this took. Congratulations!!

[@victoriajackson8361]

Guidance system....

[@Illuminati2]

they did not escape earths gravity in this video, they didn't even come close. In order to escape the Earths gravity, the rocket must be travelling at about 11.2 km/s, and the peak speed of their rocket is likely a fraction of that, so in order to send a rocket to the moon they would need a ton of propellant, and more propellant to lift all that extra fuel too. Its super hard! But what they did here is impressive regardless.

[@TheRealJeffDiamond]

They were an order of magnitude off from escaping, hence the immediate fall back to Earth. They were traveling a bit over 4,000 mph. Just to maintain low earth orbit requires a horizontal velocity of 18,000 mph. Escaping Earth requires 25,000 mph. The current record for the smallest rocket to achieve low earth orbit was the Japanese SS-520-5, which weighed 3 tons - about 20x larger. :( I, too, dream of a hobby rocket reaching the moon. :) Maybe someday with increased fuel density,

[@TheRealJeffDiamond]

Just for fun I looked up the stats on the Saturn V. The Aftershock 2 burned for 12 seconds - at an impressive 15+ Gs! The Saturn V had stage 1 burn for almost 3 minutes to get the Saturn V to an altitude of just 58 miles. Stage 2 burned for 8 minutes, reaching 25K mph. Then stage 3 burned for 2.5 minutes to achieve Earth orbit @ 120 miles high, then another 6 minutes burn to start its 3 day journey to the moon.

[@Illuminati2]

fye

[@Einarmiger_H75]

YEAH!!!

[@richlo8887]

This amateur rocket went further up than Blu Origin's New Sheppard rocket. 🤣

[@Zuul88]

Congrats! But as a scientific organisation, please use SI units :D

[@ChadCarney-hu3du]

SI units didn't put a man on the moon🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@DCRiggs87]

International aviation unit for atmospheric altitude are in feet, not meters. This promotes a greater understanding of the altitude gained more so than “meters,” which means nothing to the common aviation world outside of communist countries such as Russia and China…

[@shivshankark]

@@ChadCarney-hu3du i believe the hollywood did 😀

[@asdfghjklqzwx]

​@@ChadCarney-hu3du Pretty sure NASA used SI

[@roganthoerson1909]

​@@ChadCarney-hu3duWho was head of NASA at the time ? if you wiki the Saturn V you find a lot of numbers like diameter of the rocket with round numbers in meters... The fun fact is that mixing SI and imperial units generated some issues in other missions. US missed mars orbit by using imperial system ;)

[@SmartFX777]

солнце увидело и конец видео?

[@wesgregg6451]

Attained an altitude of a tick over 89 miles - just 11 miles more and it would have been high enough to technically be in orbit (if it were circling the planet). Pretty amazing for "amateurs." Kind of a shame that at least one member of that team is heading to SpaceX. It would have been nice to have been able to read that they were all going to work at NASA. Or, failing that, at least SpaceX's competition.

[@jaybee7075]

Great rocket, but I do question the homemade part however🫤

[@Bigern2998]

Lol! Yeah, completely made with items just sitting around the average home.

[@richlo8887]

Even this amateur rocket is better than SLS! 🤣🤣

[@ne8r]

Future SpaceX employees.

[@danpolk]

The annoying music obscures the amazing rocket engine sound.

[@-2ool]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYvIppSPaK2If9E

[@tylerwickwire1522]

This kid needs to work for SpaceX

[@kaleb4261]

Apparently some of them are already heading there

[@amandahawkins87]

This is AN AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT! CONGRATS STUDENTS 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Elon will be calling soon after seeing this lol

[@systemofcontrol5369]

ae

[@CraigCholar]

Congratulations on your terrific achievement! Suggestion: To get more clicks please use a thumbnail that adds "and you won't believe what happened next!" to the title. Also add a big fat red arrow pointing to something (anything, really), and include someone's cartoonishly-astonished, mouth-agape face in the lower right corner, hands pressing against cheeks. For extra credit, use an AI-generated image of an enormous 4-stage rocket festooned with Buck Rogers-style curving, pointy fins. You're welcome.

[@Illuminati2]

shut up unc

[@GerdKnops]

"Farther". Not "Further".

[@A91367]

Let me guess: there will be no full video released to public 😂

[@thegameroptimus140]

It is you just need to use your tinfoil brain and search that video🤡

[@loliconer]

@@thegameroptimus140 he will ask your mom for the full video when he visits her at night

[@trentmason009]

Now, if we only can get people to understand that FARther is the word they are looking for.

[@thetruthhurts3316]

Elon Musk has entered the chat.......

[@roadstarunlimited7931]

Why does the Earth still appear artificial? Is there no complete video available that captures the final destination before descent?

[@akiraic]

build your own and take a selfie!

[@andywilson5828]

Thanks guys for prooving almost every flerf theory wrong in one take off. 😊

[@roadstarunlimited7931]

@@akiraic I already did, and I didn't show it like they didn't show it.

[@akiraic]

@@roadstarunlimited7931 of course you did 😂 but jokes aside, you should check the red bull atmospheric jump, pretty cool view. And by the way, Earth does look artificial, the same way other planets do when you look at them with a telescope. It's simply completely different from what we are used to.

[@LeftySurvival]

The music is incredibly annoying! Talk about trying to take focus away from the subject matter. Downvote!!!!

[@dumbcat]

do it again without the fish eye distortion. let people see what the world really looks like

[@Teeb2023]

We already know, and it isn't flat. We've known this for millennia.

[@muzikgod]

You deny all evidence that goes against your fantasy world, and troll elsewhere.

[@ahsookee]

you already told this to an engineer on the team and they already told you that this is a linear lens without postprocessing.

[@aidanpryde7720]

lmao. Look up 56 Miles (90 km) Above Earth - Successful Amateur Rocket Launch by Kip Daugirdas. or are you going to deny that its real like all flerfs? No fish eye.

[@Native_Creation]

You can take a high altitude trip and see for yourself

[@Orysbai]

These guys are a long way from Ilon Musk. To be like Musk they have to be always visible and stay on social media. They can't even make videos of their accomplishments). Good for them though!

[@aidanpryde7720]

LMFAO omfg your brain ROT is real. also, his name is ELON. And the difference is, these are REAL rocket engineers, not a social media poser. MUSK employs Rocket scientist and rocket engineers, he himself IS NOT ONE.

[@Native_Creation]

One (or some) of the team are already slated to work at SpaceX. Elon didn't build the rockets on his own.

[@amandahawkins87]

ELON, NOT Ill-on lol employs rocket scientists at space x, he doesn't build or engineer the rockets or spacecraft himself

[@loliconer]

and receive 5,000,000,000 a year from the US government for their failed underdeveloped projects as mask