On January 6th, I stayed up late and drove to Cocoa Beach for the Space Coast's first rocket launch of the new decade! I planned to use the Cocoa Beach Pier as nice foreground for the shot, so I parked just south of the pier and walked along the beach to the north as I was adjusting to find the best viewing location. I was set up and ready to go with the shot framed about 10 min ahead of time while I was glued to the phone watching details of the launch from Space Flight Now's live feed. Unfortunately though, when the engines started to light and I turned on the shutter, I quickly noticed that I had missed the shot! As sometimes happens with rocket launches, the exact rocket angle trajectory is not always known to the general public ahead of time. The glow coming from the rocket was very much outside the frame. I quickly re-positioned the tripod in a split second and barely looked at the screen before backing up and turning the shutter on. Since I didn't get a good look at the screen I spent the next 260 seconds pretty much convinced I missed the shot. But it actually turned out better than I could have imagined.
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Here is the teaser video for the 2019 Spaceport America Cup and 14th Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition. There will be more video coming!
Congratulations to the roughly 500 students and faculty who participated in the 10th Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition. You all helped us make this year’s competition not only the largest and most successful IREC yet, but also the largest collegiate rocket engineering competition in the world today! Altogether, this year’s event saw the launch of 41 rockets, built by students from 7 countries, spanning 6 continents! Stay tuned as we post more highlights from this most fitting 10th Anniversary of the IREC, and join us as we prepare for the next decade of inspirational learning!
I wasn’t able to make it out to the 2012 International Rocket Engineering Competition; however, the teams were kind enough to donate some of their footage and I put this video together. This was the second year I went to IREC as a competitor. There were nine different teams, and this was the first year that some of the teams were from other countries. I can’t ever stop talking about how awesome this competition is, but now I will stop in hopes that you watch the video instead! |
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