Most of the time, these are high altitude balloons ... with the NE-1 Rocket, a project by [Jonathan McCabe] in Madison, Wisconsin. The goal of the NE-1 rocket is to launch a 5kg payload into ...

The USC Rocket Propulsion Lab (USCRPL) — which in 2019 became the first student organization ever to launch ... altitude of 339,800 feet (64.4 miles, or 103.6 km) — above the 62-mile-high ...

At an event in Nevada, hobbyists can legally send their homemade rockets high ... altitude, producing a straight contrail. There are few events in the United States where civilians can launch ...

College kids at the University of Southern California (USC) blasted above an international altitude record ... (CSXT), who managed to launch their rocket 380,000-feet high in 2004.

Had the launch gone smoothly, the roughly 18-meter-tall rocket with a diameter of 1.4 meters would have burned through its booster engines to ascend to an altitude ... at a high frequency in ...

Step by step, the SpaceX company is progressing the development of its novel Starship rocket. The latest prototype, Serial Number 15 (SN15), has just completed a successful high-altitude ascent ...