Rockets

Propulsion, telemetry and altitude.

Rockets are a separate page because they deserve their own logic: propellant, structure, telemetry, testing and the discipline of flight.

Rocket test
Experimental flight

Flight

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Rocket hardware

Altitude as a target

Flight Target Measure

The point is not spectacle. It is a measurable engineering target.

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Telemetry

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Rocket telemetry

Data on the way up

Data Recovery Observation

Flight only counts when the system can be observed and recovered.

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Context

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Orion sky

From ground to sky

Curiosity Precision Scale

The sky is a reminder that precision and curiosity belong together.

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What it proves

Rockets are the hardest kind of making.

They force the work to survive forces, constraints and measurement all at once.

Rockets deserve their own room.

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