Make: Rockets

Chapter 23. Onward and Upward

This book has led you through all of the major kinds of rockets in the fields of water rocketry, air rocketry, and low-power solid-propellant rocketry. You’ve learned how to build and fly rockets using all of the major recovery techniques, and you’ve seen propulsion systems like clustering and multistage rockets.

This chapter closes with a bridge to mid-power rocketry, a challenge for your new skills, and, just for fun, some really odd rockets.

Most mid-power rockets and nearly all high-power rockets use reloadable motors. While these are uncommon in low-power rocketry, there are a few reloadable motors you can use with the rockets in this book. Let’s start by taking a look at one of them.

Reloadable Motors

All of the ...