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Berkeley's LOX-Propane Rocket Takes to the Skies
Berkeley's LOX-Propane Rocket Takes to the Skies
December 3, 2023
Back in December, Space Technologies at Berkeley finally flew Eureka 1, a bipropellant Reusable Launch Vehicle equipped with one of their signature ablative motors. This was their first flight test of a bipropellant rocket, and was preceded by one of the fastest and most thorough testing campaigns by a University team. Nevertheless, liquid rocketry is a complicated subject, and a midflight anomaly ejected the crucial recovery drogue. Without this drogue, the rocket was doomed to impact the ground, but in-flight telemetry and GPS tracking transferred enough data to help analyze the flight in greater detail than otherwise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trfkuMBscV4
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