Rocketry Videos

FAR rocket testing hybrid and sugar motors (2010-12-05)

Hybrid and sugar rocket motors tested at the FAR facilities, Mojave Desert, California, 12-04-2010 [View]

Jeff Jakob 4" hybrid rocket motor test 12-04-2010 (2010-12-10)

Video of 4" hybrid rocket motor test at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR) site in the Mojave Desert of California. Rocket used HTPB for fuel and nitrous oxide for the oxidizer. [View]

DoubleSShot BPS rocket motor test (2012-05-08)

Static test of the Aft section of the DoubleSShot BPS rocket motor on May 5th, 2012 at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site in the Mojave Desert of California. Approximately 85 pounds (38 kg) of ... [View]

150 mm (6") sugar rocket CATO (2018-04-24)

150 mm KNSU sucrose rocket motor launch. Motor failed at the bulkhead resulting in a CATO. Friends of Amateur Rocketry test facility, Mojave Desert. [View]

AIAA UCF FAR-1030 Rocket Launch | UCF's Most Powerful Rocket (2019-06-05)

AIAA UCF's high altitude rocket launch at Friends of Amateur Rocketry on June 1, 2019. The rocket reached a maximum altitude of 21,348 feet above ground level and won 2nd place in the FAR 1030-5R ... [View]

Experimental Rocket Guidance, Paul Breed (2013-02-05)

Paul Breed's experimental guidance project. Three Cesaroni K-motors were set in gimbals for vertical stabilization guidance control. Control ended when motor burn out complete. Test conducted at the ... [View]

Firing a Rocket Engine! A Day in the Life of an MIT Aerospace Engineering Student Ep.4 (2019-02-05)

In this video, I talk about how my friend and I conducted a static fire testing of his Liquid Oxygen and Kerosene rocket engine. We tested it at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site in the Mojave ... [View]

Friends of Amateur Rocketry May 19, 2012 (2012-05-21)

Activities at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site on Saturday, May 19, 2012. N2O nitrous oxide hybrid flight by CAL-POLY San Luis Obispo, a drogue deployment charge test by Hal Duffy for the ... [View]

High Power Rocket - Modified LOC Vulcanite with Aerotech H115DM - Tripoli Level 1 Certification (2020-08-03)

Successful Tripoli Level 1 HPR cert at FAR (Friends of Amateur Rocketry) out in the Mojave Desert by Koehn Dry Lake bed. Special thanks to Rick Maschek, Eric Beckner and Mark Holthaus and everybody ... [View]

High Power Rocket Launch 360° Video (2017-09-26)

Virtual Reality view from Oak Park Rocketry Team. Rocket launched on Sept. 16, 2017 at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site in the Mojave Desert. This rocket (the Black Brant X) was made by our ... [View]

High Power Rocket Launch at Friends of Amateur Rocketry 11-28-17 (2017-11-29)

The Oak Park Rocket Club travels to the Friends of Amateur Rocketry launch site in the Mojave Desert to launch two high power rockets. The first rocket is a bamboo prototype rocket made of mostly ... [View]

Huge Sugar Rocket Launch at FAR (2017-11-04)

I recently went to this cool rocket launching place called FAR (Friends of Amateur Rocketry). This diverges slightly from my normal line of videos, but I thought this was cool. The myth-busters even ... [View]

Mad Cow Super dx3 launch at FAR (2017-11-03)

Frank Pitoniak successful launch and recovery of a 4" Mad Cow Super dx3 rocket on a Cesaroni 38mm motor at the FAR facility October 7, 2017. [View]

Princeton Rocketry Club "Stratos" rocket launch by Coleman Merchant (2018-04-28)

all credit to Coleman Merchant Test launch of Princeton SpaceShot sustainer 2nd stage. Loki 54/4000 white load (L2050) motor, all composites construction. Maximum altitude = 39,000 ft, maximum speed ... [View]