The primary goal of this project is the development of an efficient numerical method for modeling high altitude rocket exhaust plume flows ... phase (for details see "Evaluation of a Monte Carlo Model ...

Five years after becoming the first students to launch a rocket into space, the University of Southern California Rocket ...

The "Aftershock II" soared further into space than any non-governmental and non-commercial group has ever flown before.

Scale model. Skylon is a British design for an unmanned Single ... engine it operates like a jet engine at low altitude and ...

[zortness] over on reddit created a data logging board created especially for amateur rocketry, a fabulous piece of work that stands up to the rigors of going very fast and very high. The design ...

The Federal Aviation Administration allows attendees to send objects as high as 492,000 feet (93 miles). Participants aim to build rockets that will reach their maximum altitude, producing a ...

College kids at the University of Southern California (USC) blasted above an international altitude record ... who managed to launch their rocket 380,000-feet high in 2004.

Aftershock II is said to be the “world’s first civilian-built rocket” to reach such a high altitude. Interestingly, it surpassed the previous record of amateur rocketry by 90,000 ft (27 ...