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Project HALO News

Sorry for lack of updates in the past couple of years. We had hoped for a static firing of the last two hybrid motors, but due to the unavailability of a test facility, we are going to postpone until late 2011. In the mean time, we are tweaking our version of hybrid suitcase rocket for education outreach and for simple hybrid propellant testing. It is based on the hybrid suitcase rocket built by our friend Tim Pickens for Orion Propulsion (now Dynetics) that we borrowed on occasions for education outreach. The twist we made to this version is the use of a propane igniter. It works well and we demonstrated a few times.

Team also embarked on a small liquid rocket, still using nitrous oxide as our oxidizer, which could offer us more "boost for the buck." We are currently building the ground test equipments and hopefully to test it fall 2011.

  • TL-1 static firing #4 (Battleship motor) was successful
  • TL-1 sub-scaled tube launcher test #3 scheduled for early 2008.
  • October 20, 2007. Test fired our heavy-wall "battleship" motor for about 20 sec. We will be testing our flight motor later in November.
  • On the tube launcher side. We have built a subscale launcher and tests have all been successful. We will be doing few more subscale launcher test before moving to full scale testing.
  • Our goals will be 100 km (space) and video downlink.
  • Team Project HALO is approaching critical mass again. We have new team members, and we are looking for few more folks who wants to help. If you are interested, please let us know.