Model Rocket Vertical Landing

[LordFerret]

This popped up in my news feed this morning.  Kudos to this young man, nice work.  Enjoy...

https://hackaday.com/2024/07/10/model-rocket-nails-vertical-landing-after-three-year-effort/

[magnemoe]

He used an solid fuel engine to land, so he could not adjust trust or then to stop burning. SpaceX might want to recruit him or some other getting into reuse. 

[boriz]

 

[Meecrob]

4 hours ago, magnemoe said:

SpaceX might want to recruit him or some other getting into reuse. 

Nah, SpaceX has no use for solids. Also the kid is kinda a jerk. Way inflated ego because he did something everyone can do. Its cool what he did, but he thinks he's designing rockets when he is really designing high-speed toilet paper rolls. When someone does this with liquids, I'll be the first to congratulate them. Until then, this kid is pretty cool, but the ego on him is way over-inflated.