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Aerospace Engineer
Reusable L Class Sugar Rocket Motor

As a Freshman at MIT, I was interested in designing and building a high power solid rocket engine in order to launch larger rockets. Since I only had my dorm room as a lab space, I decided to use a sugar and potassium nitrate propellant mix, which is significantly safer and cheaper than other propellants. Still, if I got caught there's a chance MIT would let me keep working just like a similar group of students at CalTech in the 30s. The engine was successfully static fired and was reusable immediately after the test.
Static Fire Video
Designing the Motor
Machining Components
Mixing Rocket Propellant
Motor Integration
Static Fire
Teardown
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