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SS-520-5 orbital rocket
Hello All,
Here is another scale subject (please see below). If Estes doesn't produce a scale kit of it (they have 3:1 tangent ogive nose cones that would work perfectly for it), hopefully Boyce Aerospace Hobbies and/or Aerobotix will offer 3D printed parts for it, and perhaps even in multiple scales: Congratulations to JAXA for orbiting a satellite with the world’s smallest and lightest SLV (Satellite Launch Vehicle)! The student-built, approximately 3-kilogram TRICOM 1R test satellite was launched into orbit from Japan’s Uchinoura Space Center aboard the SS-520-5 vehicle, a two-stage SS-520 sounding rocket fitted with a nitrogen-jet stabilization system and a third stage. At 9.5 meters (31 feet) tall, 520 millimeters (about 20 inches) in diameter, and weighing just 2.6 metric tons, the all-solid propellant vehicle is by far the smallest rocket ever to achieve orbit. Also: While JAXA has no plans to commercialize the vehicle, this test flight—a re-flight of last year’s failed SS-520-4 launch attempt—was conducted in order to validate low-cost technologies and launch operations procedures to be incorporated into a future nanolauncher (one possible design is the SS-520-derived NL-520, see Reply #16 *here*: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/in...p?topic=40509.0 ) for lofting small satellites into user-selected orbits, on their schedules. Below are links to information, photographs, and video coverage of the SS-520-5/TRICOM 1R mission: http://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/0...1r-test-launch/ (a video and an ascent events timeline are included) http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2018/02/20...ss-520-5_j.html (the English button is in the upper right-hand corner) http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ss-520-5+rocket (YouTube SS-520-5 video links), and: http://www.google.com/search?source...0 .i2o74SGLJy4 (*lots* of links here, including to video coverage) I hope this material will be helpful.
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Thanks for the links. Rocketarium has a nice scale model of the SS-520: two engine cluster, 30" long.
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Comrades:
Anybody got a drawing? 1/10 scale on ST-20 would be 37 inches tall with a BC-2061.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Series_(rocket_family)) This is the best I could find. Also, funny thing, the specs show SS-520-5 is actually a little shorter than the SS-520, even though it has an added third stage. |
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You're right!
I didn't think to check because I though the rocket was "too new"! Sure enough, 38 inches tall on ST-20 tubing for 1/10 scale. 6 inches of cone, about a half inch of fin at the bottom so about 31.5 inches of tubing. Cool silver and orange paint. Could be fun.
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Well, here's what you need:
Balsa Nose Cone #20 6.1" Ogive SEM-BC-2061 1 $9.99 Body Tube #20 18.0" Long SEM-ST-20180 2 $3.79 Body Tube #9 5.0" Long SEM-ST-950 1 $1.29 Centering Ring #9 to #20 (Pkg of 6) SEM-CR-9-20 1 $3.49 Centering Ring - Thrust Ring #9 (6pk) SEM-TR-9 1 $1.99 Ejection Baffle Kit Conical Fiber Series #20 SEM-EB-20 1 $3.99 Engine Hook 3.75" (2pk) SEM-EH-38 1 $1.99 Tubing Coupler #20 2.00" Long SEM-HTC-20 1 $1.79 So $32.11 in Semroc parts. You need parachute, launch lugs and elastic. I'll do a build thread when the parts come in.
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Will be looking forward to that.
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Black Shire--Draft horse in human form, model rocketeer, occasional mystic, and writer, see: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperba...an-form/8075185 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6122050 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6126511 All of my book proceeds go to the Northcote Heavy Horse Centre www.northcotehorses.com. NAR #54895 SR |
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