[sudo-discuss] Sudo Space Program: Intro/Refresher to Rocketry

[Steve Berl]

Sounds like fun. I will try to make it, but might have a conflict.

-steve

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Jae Kwon <jkwon.work at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rockets! I got it on my calendar.
>
> On Jan 31, 2013, at 12:07 AM, hol at gaskill.com wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > We will be having a session next Tuesday from 5:30 to 7PM going over
> some basics of rocketry.  This could be a regular thing, or we could go
> ahead and fork it into specific projects and catch people up on the fly.  I
> know there are a number of y'all who have had experience with rockets in
> childhood so I would like to address the actual groundwork of thrust, drag,
> stability, propulsion, and recovery then pretty quickly move into exploring
> ideas that people would be interested in working on as a group or
> independently within sudo room.  All are invited to come share their
> interest, experience, and tales of successful launches or catastrophic
> failures, on and off the pad.  Over the course of the evening, I would like
> us to:
> >
> > -Get everyone caught up on the basics of model rocketry and briefly
> touch on orbital mechanics
> >
> > -Actually build at least one rocket
> >
> > -Schedule a small launch for sometime in February
> >
> > I know enough of the basic stuff to get us going, but if we have any
> rocket scientists/engineers this would be a good time to come out of the
> woodwork :)
> >
> > Also, we have another (previously scheduled) meeting in the facility at
> 7 so we will need to be mindful of their space requirements when that time
> comes.
> >
> > Onward to the heavens,
> > Hol
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-steve
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