First Student Rocket to reach Space (339,800 ft, Mach 5.1) | Traveler IV Launch

[@ianwhittinghill]

Congratulations, USC RPL! This is a hard-fought victory. The tenacity of the team that carried you through so many iterations is truly inspiring. Well done. Flight on Trojans!

[@AeroBennett855]

Congrats This occurred just before my forthcoming high school graduation I am trying to pursue a similar lifelong dream of flying into space and it’s too expensive for me to afford so please help me out

[@n3k0lein]

Well done, now get it to orbit next semester.

[@kerbodynamicx472]

Alex that will be much harder. Actually just get it pass the 100 km Kerman line isn’t hard-people achieved it in WW2. You have enough delta V and go straight up you can get there

[@kerbodynamicx472]

Actually to just achieve the altitude you can even go without any navigation and just plummet upwards

[@eyeborg3148]

Not to discount the work these students have done, but many hobbyist groups have been able to launch solid-rockets past the Karman line... it takes far more Delta-V to launch a rocket into orbit, as well as a far more complex guidance system. It almost certainly also requires the use of a liquid-fueled upper stage, in order to better control thrust and circularize the orbit. There’s a reason very few commercial companies have reached orbit - it’s really hard, and even harder if you’re trying to launch any significant payload.

[@tamiltechride2537]

Alex Alex

[@onewordhereonewordthere6975]

@@eyeborg3148 the only liquid Rocket Fuel NASA has ever used is and was H2O2 AKA hydrogen peroxide but they stopped using it. Why ? Thier scarred of it ! It's not wilI it but when is it going to blow ! Water and oil don't mix .

[@srfh2]

If the world was filled with young people like this I would never fear for our future. Congratulations. Truly awe-inspiring. There are countries out there who have never launched anything into space.

[@ahsnsb]

These old people running governments should get tf out of the offices

[@fsbreez2835]

Ok boomer

[@TerryGrancho]

Our world was filled with young people like this in the past, and look what we´ve got!

[@makarlock]

it is...

[@foblobster8685]

@@fsbreez2835 just stop...pls

[@heyitsclayyy3002]

When you realize this is basically what you do in ksp. I love this.

[@adrianjezierski8093]

my altitude record in real life KSP is around 50 metres... Waiting for a sticker syrop ordered to make the solid fuel more sticky and with less cracks so it doesnt go BOOM I dream about making a huge solid rocket but they keep exploding

[@paynetreyvon1261]

@@adrianjezierski8093 bruh my Walmart model rocket went 2000ft, it didn't Survive tho

[@blockvfive1196]

@@paynetreyvon1261 and I wanna buy an F engine and essentially cover it in a nosecone and 4 fins

[@fisher9413]

@@paynetreyvon1261 bro, that's a felony without an FFA permit, how TF

[@TBButtSmoothy]

@@paynetreyvon1261 yeah no lol

[@jaridwilliams739]

its like a tiny NASA extreme organization determination and creative solutions to each iterations problems coming from these students, its inspiring

[@josefstalin4532]

Agree. Imagine what you could do with a bunch of money and a few hundred people like these..

[@tylerthompson9822]

Those kids are the future of both NASA and SapceX

[@leokimvideo]

Girl gets hugged then runs, oh well hug a guy instead. To the moon next

[@moniquefletcher2186]

😂😂😂😂

[@fantasybabydino]

what

[@dianne71047]

What an achievement! I grew up in Melbourne, Florida during the 1950's and 60's. Seeing your launch here gave me chills and put tears in my eyes! What a thrill this is for all of you and for those like me who have always felt this quest is a part of us!

[@standard-carrier-wo-chan]

It's crazy how not 80 years ago, the first rocket to reach space was made by top scientists working to make the furthest flying weapon as technology of the time would allow. Today, technology have advanced so far that a team of students is able to achieve the same thing.

[@parviz3998]

Not comparable at all, this is a solid fuel rocket with literally 0 moving parts.

[@chaseg1765]

@@parviz3998🤓

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

@@parviz3998 The only moving part is the flame line as it burns up the solid fuel chunk. Lol.

[@EndTimeDreams]

You had one job, clean the camera lens before launch lol.

[@fantasybabydino]

it was clean, i assume it got dirty during flight because of bits being burnt off or the booster or something but yeah i wish they put on a second camera that was shielded or something so we could see the beautiful earth :)

[@ericeastham1256]

From the Utah State University Rocket Team, congrulations. This is a fantastic achievement, and one that I hope is the first of many.

[@JudahRichardson1]

Congrats! I can only imagine how excited you must be to see something you created soar into space like that.

[@azlanfoodscapes]

Well done! Interesting for you to note that the average age for Apollo 11 program staffers was only 27, not much older than you all...

[@finnvankoutrik7131]

And they got to the moon. And back…

[@ethanpaul878]

@@finnvankoutrik7131 lol with like 20% of US gdp behind them at the time

[@JRexRegis]

@@ethanpaul878 Not to mention that that these students also have to manufacture everything by hand. It's a great achievement

[@berfranper]

This is amazing, we usually see Nasa, SpaceX and Blue Origin put satellites in space, but they have an enormous budget and top tier engineers, this was achieved by a small team of students working with their bare hands. Good job.

[@timw6863]

I have more respect for this team than I ever had for any sports team!

[@adaptablerubenvideos3097]

Traveler IV mission: reach space complete Traveler V mission: Dethrone Gofast rocket altitude record of 380k feet

[@fj2976]

brought tears to my eyes team..."the final frontier"....good on yah!

[@Myrddnn]

That thing needs to go into the National Air and Space Museum! Awesome work guys!

[@Altenholz]

Young talented people, who are trying to shape our future. Really great!

[@srihari7823]

What a phenomenal achievement USC RPL! Kudos guys. Laid the foundation for several teams y'all.

[@1walkanator]

That thing was accelerating so damn fast! It sunk in when he was calling out the altitudes. "8km, 9km, 13km, 17km" Very cool, and good job to the students!

[@Tattlebot]

The force is constant though. However, acceleration does increase due to loss of mass and thinning of air.

[@Vits2001]

I just love that all of them are quite young people, about as old as me, really showing how professional the people of our generation can be. Just bravo, this is such an inspirational team.

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

Professionalism starts with how you dress in the morning. All of them had jeans, leggings, windbreakers, hoodies, t-shirts, sneakers. Nothing professional 'looking' about them, but they do work together well, evidently.

[@eclipsemantis]

@@StrangeScaryNewEngland Disagree. Being a professional is about getting things done, which these students did to an admirable degree.

[@SpaceComms]

Congratulations! I skimmed your white paper and saw you used ham radio in your avionics, in particular APRS on the 70cm band to gather GPS data. I also see an Arrow II antenna and perhaps a Kenwood TH-D72A handheld radio around 00:38 in the video. 73, John Brier KG4AKV

[@CraftedNewsTV]

I love the fact that they use red-cups to dose the ingredients. Congrats to everyone that was involved!

[@ingmacocom]

Our congratulations to USC RPL !!! we are hobby rocket builders with sugar fuel and potassium nitrate, but we keep experimenting. Your achievement renews us. Greetings from Argentina.

[@YukonK9]

Launching without avionics system armed makes me so rrrrrrrrrr. One of those simple problems that are so annoying and destroys years of work

[@daviddavis]

year singular

[@ericf7063]

Well, he did say communications issues which sounds an awful lot like, "I thought that was your job".

[@BrettonFerguson]

Good thing they remembered to turn the cameras on this time. 🤦‍♂

[@MLSCaptain]

Yass!!! Congrats to everyone involved! That's insane!!

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

@USC RPL >>> It looked like the leading edges of the fins on the rocket had delaminated slightly - I presume from the mach 5+ airflow during ascent. Would laminating something like _thin_ stainless steel strips onto the L.E.'S of the fins have helped that?

[@dhargarten]

Yes, that would help. Alternatively you could use phenolic resin and glass fibers, like a heat shield.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

@@dhargarten >>> Rodger that.

[@rhutchison2k]

I am not 100% sure, but i heard the delamination of the fins caused enough drag to reduce apogee from 100km to ~60-70km, and their max altitude was confirmed using radar rangefinding, aka, internal accelerometers produced incorrect data. I need to look more into it but that's a rumor that has been circulating..

[@mstorey83]

Congratulations USC - RPL! Hard work by this team and perseverance paved the way!

[@td_kdname5197]

Why are there no shots of the rocket going up? We see the launch. We see the people looking up. We see the people taking video with their phones and iPads of the rocket going up, but no video on the post of the rocket going up. This is very unsatisfying. We want to see the rocket going up to space guys. Give us the shot!

[@MultiMassandra]

I'd love to take a course with these guys and learn rocket science, it is my dream to launch a rocket into space.

[@cantinadudes]

The space age is coming, you may even ride one ;)

[@sciencecompliance235]

Space is cool, but orbit is where the real adventure begins. Not to take anything away from these students--this is a big accomplishment for students--but reaching orbit is a lot harder than what happened here and presents a lot more opportunities to do cool stuff.

[@yuvtube1]

@@sciencecompliance235 Exactly, getting to space is easy. Staying there in an orbit is a challenge.

[@viejaspeliculasfilipinas3621]

Omg me too! I wanna start designing a rocket

[@user71285]

*engineering. No such thing as "rocket science".

[@cyhusain6213]

My *Congratulations to the USC RPL* ! From a Graduate of one of your rivals.

[@astroplutonium]

I am so trully happy for you. I got chills watching the video. As an amatuer rocketeer i feel awe watching the video and i understand all the hard work and time that goes into that true achievment. Also so sad for myself that i will never be a part of something larger than the stupid job i am doing now... wasting my knowledge and experience cause i need to have a pay. Word of advice to all young people: Do not ruin your lives by getting married when you are 18 and having children by 20. Study, explore, advance and then procreate when and if you are ready. All good things come at the right time. Also know that hard effort is rewarded, almost always....

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

3:49 That awkward moment when the pretty girl comes running over to you and looks at the group of people who are busy hugging, then chooses the "other guy" because nobody else is left to hug. lol Probably made his day. I'll bet his "rocket" went way up when she hugged him.

[@silasmarner7586]

At their age I had waaaay more game and yes went to a prestigious engineering school. No rockets tho. So, despite being a bunch of flopping flapping nerds having a nerdfest, they did a really great job and that can't be taken away from them.

[@jackwalsh7118]

If I were him I'm pretty sure the rocket launch to space would have made my day more than a hug... I guess whatever floats your boat though

[@Medivhmen]

@@musama8771 is this true ?

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

@@jackwalsh7118 All people seem to do is think with their sex organs now

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

@@jackwalsh7118 For example, the OP couldn't watch this entire video about a rocket launch without bringing up a "pretty girl"

[@fennewald5230]

The student aiming the high gain antenna is the best part

[@YukonK9]

I really want to do a spaceshot now, but the thermal and force loads are so insane I know it'll be after engineering haha

[@daviddavis]

You can do it

[@sciencecompliance235]

The thermal environment is not that bad if you're just shooting a rocket straight up. The thermal issues come with going really fast and re-entering the atmosphere at great speed.

[@yogeshkumar7389]

2:14 they just need black masks and a few more Toyotas, and a Predator drone is legalized for a drive-by. :-D

[@AngelPerez-dw8ou]

LMAO 💀

[@paulmoffat9306]

The design could have gone higher if the leading edge of the fins had not shredded, as shown in a rather brief view in the recovery process (the cause may be the resin used to bind the carbon fiber). The camera got 'slagged' during the supersonic ascent - but it can be tough to anticipate that. Also the spin could come from the fins, if not exactly parallel to the tube, or was possibly induced in the combustion chamber with a spiraling exhaust. May be corrected with a roll gyro coupled to small roll control fins. Tremendous achievement regardless.

[@firesculpturevideo]

I believe (not a rocket scientist) but I think this is called spin-stabilized. I have seen other rockets with titanium leading edges. fyi.

[@alkohallick2901]

All that time and effort you'd think they'd put more emphasis on the camera.

[@vitalykrylov6382]

wow! this is so inspiring.. congratulations from Russia!

[@morskojvolk]

Congratulations! There's nothing you can't accomplish if you work hard and believe I yourselves. I had tears in my eyes watching this.

[@philliprisgaard6394]

Congratulations! Goals like This are super hard to accomplish well done!👍

[@stemmentor9700]

Beautiful launch and recovery. BZ for teamwork and perseverance. Please continue to excel and reach beyond your dreams.

[@kwittnebel]

Bravo. Huge accomplishment. I had no idea USC had a rocketry group this serious. What's next? :-)

[@Adraria8]

atg staged rockets?

[@RRRIBEYE]

Curing Liberalism?

[@telescopesfs-officialchann3897]

Orbit

[@KyleCowden]

How cool to be a young person in that program. I could feel their excitement.

[@garybulwinkle82]

Congratulations USC RPL! I graduated in 83 with an engineering degree, and had model rockets as a hobby in the early seventies. I wish you guys were around back then; I would have been very interested!! We did go to the Rose Bowl two of my four years, though!!

[@saad3677]

What a beautiful video. It was so original. And really caused a rush of adrenaline within me :D Great work team USC, love from Pakistan.

[@arjunagrawal9376]

Please do not mistake missiles for rockets

[@varunnair3343]

@@arjunagrawal9376 what an asshole.

[@arjunagrawal9376]

@@varunnair3343 it wasnt meant for the orignal comment someone else was mocking him and I just corrected him Karen

[@Ninja-fp1im]

Learn English Bruv

[@MacMetal215]

Huge congratulations team

[@MonsterSound.Bradley]

Must have been an efficient burn🔥. Only 180 lbs of fuel. Great job by all. Time to Celebrate!

[@RandomisedName]

Their reactions are heartmelting

[@vyacheslavundefined9396]

Well done guys! How about to share your experience and/or blueprints, sources with a community? To give a chance other students and enthusiasts build such rocket?

[@aerojetrocketdyners-2538]

well, thanks to ITAR , rocket stuff can't be openly shared.

[@NoPulseForRussians]

"Uhh we show you ballooning Neil, not descending" -First Man (the movie)

[@statelyelms]

Amazing video! Got to say guys, you rocked it! Congrats from Leo Hayes High School!

[@Jay_Dahl]

That was great to see. I especially enjoyed the guy who had an excuse to hug that girl (at about 3:40 into the video) that he had surely been thinking about. And the David Bowie song made it even more enjoyable to watch.

[@user-pb4hh1jk3f]

Awesome work guys! Next stop: the Moon, right?

[@potatomuzik]

Nah next stop in Uranus

[@alisalah221]

@@potatomuzik lmao

[@viejaspeliculasfilipinas3621]

@Ho Lam YIU "but because it is hard"

[@brianmcrock]

That's bad ass! Congratulations folks... You all rock!

[@stewvlogs5084]

Amazing simply amazing, well done everyone involved and good luck for the future 👍👍👍

[@clintonscott9623]

Have just now seen the video.... holy crap, you guys did an excellent job of making and flying your rocket.. CONGRATULATION.....

[@MrLktro2]

Great job, keep it like that. I hope to hear more news from you guys.

[@Curent-Value]

Это великолепно ребята, радовался вместе с вами!

[@PeterForth]

Congratulations ! Fantastic work, and filmmaking.

[@funda1958]

How do you not have so many subscribers! This was an insane accomplishment, and I hope you all keep reaching for the stars!

[@TractorsChemer]

Nice.

[@bjrnleonsrenriedel8585]

Amaaazing I was jumping because I got so happy when they reached the Karman line🤯

[@lutheruchiha1163]

Congrat for this JOB I have a question : What is the propelant use on this rocket?? R-Candy? It possible to have proportion?

[@Fred_the_1996]

An improved version of black powder

[@rootabeta9015]

If I recall correctly, you need special licenses to create solid rocket motors, so the information likely wouldn't be any use to you. Besides, I don't think RCandy has the necessary energy/weight ratio for anything close to an efficient flight. Black powder also is unlikely. They might cover the propellant in the white paper (I saw someone else mention some other details, about their communications, from said paper), however, producing it on your own is likely illegal without achieving the aforementioned licenses.

[@Fred_the_1996]

@@rootabeta9015 uh oh.... I have produced a bunch of b12-0 equivalents. Does that count?

[@rootabeta9015]

@@Fred_the_1996 It may depend on state/country. I'm not a lawyer - please check your local legislature for details.

[@Fred_the_1996]

@@rootabeta9015 K

[@Tmccreight25Gaming]

Goddamn guys! Congratulations, on this historic achievement!

[@alexforrest2563]

Awesome from start to finish to see your dream and vision to fruition must be a once in a lifetime feeling . . Thank you for sharing i feel honoured and humbled by what you achieved with your friendsand family.❤

[@jhyland87]

It launched without its avionics being enabled? Thats rough... Silly mistake >_

[@nogods342]

You mad they didn't hit the dome😂😂😂

[@jonv.6213]

MACH 5?! Damn dude, good job guys!

[@matthewhopkins7042]

Crazy to think one man did all of this himself at home without wasting taxpayer money or grant money to do it and got VASTLY superior video, telemetry, and data from his mission. He fell about 30k feet short, and 0.8 mach short, but given it was a home project, I'll pay that.

[@jafarayar3845]

well done guys.big ,big hug from AFG

[@zoesdada8923]

So, basically this means anyone can build and launch a rocket into space. That pretty much kills all those flat earth conspiracy theories and all that other garbage.

[@danielhoven570]

Anyone with 100 grand and level C FAA insurace.

[@notsoclearsky]

@@danielhoven570 well there are a shit ton of people who have that

[@mithun1307]

мальчишки и девченки, я рад что добились такого результата 💪😉

[@psycleen]

final project lying to the public

[@reillyyugehands481]

best comment

[@cirentXD]

I got to work beside these guys, since we went to the same rocket competition. These guys are cool, but they haven't officially won the title for "first student built rocket to reach space" the competition is still on going.

[@nycameleon]

You're making North Korea feel bad.

[@sendit2873]

Awesome I am a level 3 cert. rocketeer and I must say that was amazing congrads to all can't wait to see what's next

[@treelonmusk8324]

I love how it's like a team of ppl to build that little rocket lol

[@Matt_10203]

Space is hard, like very hard.

[@DiegoGomez-pk5tg]

The rocket is actually 12 ft long lol

[@tb303wpf1]

Great work guys/gals!! Yall should put a better camera on the next one.

[@tompetty5085]

filmed with a potato peeler

[@gump1119]

U.S. Air Force Academy cadets were the first collegiate rocketry team to do this in 2009. Radar verified at 354K feet, far, far above that of west point or annapolis. Not to take away from your achievement, very nicely done. Space is hard. But I'm sure you'd agree it wouldn't be fair if someone did this in the future and falsely claimed they were first.

[@lonelyspaceman4832]

While you are correct, the USAFA's launch was a product of students, faculty, and professionals working together. USCRPL's launch was the first all-student team! :P

[@JohnWayne99999a]

3:45 instant-pregnant

[@whatitis5646]

Congrats, I can only imagine the work they put into this

[@W.Deazevedo]

enfim viram que a TERRA É PLANA ATÉ A SEGUNDA ORDEM

[@lazycalm41]

What an epic achievement ! Fantastic to watch and using the soundtrack from 'The Martian' was a nice touch!

[@CircuitTheBand]

Hahahahaha fake!!! It did not go into space.

[@tsurutuneado5981]

The rocket reached an altitude of 339k ft, the Karman line (aka the beggining of space) is at an altitude of 330k ft. They did reach space

[@CircuitTheBand]

@@tsurutuneado5981 nobody can get past the firmament

[@CircuitTheBand]

@@tsurutuneado5981 They were only about 20k-30k feet from the dome. Nice try though

[@Novak2611]

100 km is not space?? Personally I would define space when the sky becomes dark (instead of blue) which is 30 km.

[@CircuitTheBand]

@@Novak2611 fake space would be past the dome. Which nobody has ever or will ever do. Anything under the dome is still Earth, very simple.

[@brettbuck7362]

The actual definition of space is 50 miles, not the "Karman Line" - which is just an FAI definition to make it come out 100 KM exactly. Karman calculated the line to be 52 miles.

[@justsomeamerican5283]

*Elon Musk wants to know your location*

[@Singurarity88]

You are the students SpaceX wants. Good job and apply there, you wont regret ;)

[@williamchirgwin8754]

It is terrific to see a group of young people achieve this feat to put a rocket up to above 100 kilometres where space technically starts. One criticism is the use of imperial measurements, something I have to always convert into metric to understand imperial figures. I wish the world would adopt the metric system, it would be far simpler for all.

[@haydenbrophy9460]

The entire US aerospace industry runs of imperial, you can debate which one is superior but this is a U.S. based lab therefore we use US customary units.

[@denelson83]

​@@haydenbrophy9460US customary units are dumb. The whole rest of the world can attest to that.

[@brodiemcfadyean893]

Good to see hardworking pays off. Congratulations!!!

[@tetra3ne56scur3]

3:59 That’s beautiful you made it to space

[@qray4851]

Congratulations. You know what would have been cool though...FOOTAGE OF THE ROCKET FLYING!

[@danielcentini4164]

I don't know why, but the guys reaction gets me emotional

[@EvanFrenchMusic93]

The David Bowie song at the end was a great touch!

[@okellojim6142]

Didbthe rocket really go that high, you only showed us the ignition part

[@gabrielcastellon5531]

I love you, i love the team that achieved this, you have inspired me. And im sure you have inspired so many people. I hope that with this you can show how is it to fall in love with engeneering and how is it to dedícate your life and death to créate beautifull things like this rocket

[@percival23]

Great accomplishment. They just need to up their game with the on board video. Lots of amature rocket launches out there with beautiful high quality video.

[@JustinJehle]

Awesome, congratulations USCRPL

[@larryscott3982]

I suppose high altitude and supersonic ruled out gps telemetry. But, they should be able to get an unlocked gps system for this.