Martlet 0 ground launch from Cambridge University Spaceflight on Vimeo.
Care of Clark Lindsey's Hobbyspace this blog has been kept up to date over the years on JP Aerospace's high altitude balloon work and various US amateur rocket projects so it was a bit of a surprise to come across some students from the UK's University of Cambridge doing both with a similar aim to the Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association (ARCA), namely the balloon launched rocket. While ARCA has human spaceflight ambitions the UK students envisage an unmanned flight test capabilityNova 5 - Close to apogee from Cambridge University Spaceflight on Vimeo.
on November 20, 2009 5:54 PM | Reply
Very good video! I'm studying it as confirmation on the design of the N Prize guidance for the Microlaunchers entry, slide 6 of:
http://www.microlaunchers.com/7816/L3/sa09/sa09.html
I presume this is about 30 km altitude? The N Prize guidance is to operate from about 60 to 200 km