At a rocketry club’s monthly launch, some of the projectiles flew as high as 4,500 feet, carrying onboard cameras, GPS ...

When building a model rocket, it can be fun to get into the maths of it all—calculating the expected performance of your build, and then seeing how it measures up in the real world. To aid in that ...

When you’re building and launching a variety of advanced model rockets like [Joe Barnard], you don’t want to spend time building (and debugging) specialized flight computers for every rocket ...

Launching a model rocket used to be much easier than this. The older hobbyists gathered for a launch at Moffett Field near Mountain View on a recent Saturday morning recall a time when rockets filled ...

In 2021, Kerbal Space Program creator Felipe “HarvesteR” Falanghe launched Balsa Model Flight Simulator in early access. It didn’t quite take off as intended, but now Falanghe, his Floating Origin ...

TITUSVILLE — It was supposed to target terrorism, not toy rockets. But enthusiasts who build and launch model rockets say a provision in the Homeland Security Act threatens to ground a hobby that for ...

Kids stage a dry run for Tuesday’s rocket launch in Huntsville, Alabama. Credit: Charles Bergquist Next week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. But before astronauts could take ...

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In the near future, the days of conceptual learning will become classroom pedagogy of the past. Increasingly, teachers, students and school leaders are seeking hands-on activities, real-world ...

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