The Water Rocket Garage

Whats New?

Revision J of the proposed Water Rocket Safety Code (12/16/2002)
Water Rocket Burst Test Report (1.5Mb) WaterRocketBurstTestReport2.doc (12/2002)
Water Rocket Burst Test Video (268kb)) 5burst.avi (10/2002)
Proposed Water Rocket Safety Code presented at NARCON 2002 (4/2002)
New Launcher plan (2/1999)
New and improved Explicit Simulation provides a fast spreadsheet to optimize just about any parameter on a single stage rocket. (11/98)
Big Tex Flies! The San Diego Launch Weekend Photos are now online! (9/1998)
The Millenium VIII rips through the 1000 ft barrier! (1060 ft on 7/3/1998)
Improved Staging Mechanism design (3/1998)
Added Deployment Timer page(2/1998)

Rocket Projects

The Millenium Series
The (successful) quest for a 1000' water rocket. Includes photos and a movie you can download.
Big Tex
A large project. An exersize in complexity; may it rest in peace.
Miscellaneous Graphics
A collection of water rocket graphics

Information

Rocket Construction Tips
Fins and Bottle Joints
Staging Mechanism
An interconnect for 2-stage rockets: simple and reliable.
Deployment Timer
Build a chute timer from a wind-up toy.
Launchers
A PVC contraption to hold the rocket down while you pressurize it. From a distance.

Performance

Single Stage Altitude Predictions
Optimizing the 2-liter Single Stage Water Rocket
Two Stage Altitude Predictions
Pushing the envelope with a second stage
Explicit Equations for Altitude Estimates
Altitude and velocity predictions for single stage, large nozzle rockets, includes effect of drag. Does not require numerical integration! Crank through the equations by hand, or download the spreadsheet.
Download EXCEL spreadsheet
Try your own numerical simulations; optimize using Excel's solver function. Supports the following:

Multiple Stages (up to 3)
Internal Launch Tubes
Includes 'Air Pulse'(NEW)
Thrust, Altitude, etc. graphs(.xls only)

(Both Excel 5.0 workbook and SYLK formats are in the .zip file)
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