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The 50 year rocket
May 18th, 2025 at 6:43pm
 
Qld's rocket is no-go as the nose-cone is dodgy.

'WRESAT (Weapons Research Establishment Satellite), launched on 29 November 1967, was Australia’s first satellite. In 1970, the Oscar satellite was built by a group of University of Melbourne students, all aged in their 20s'.

The boys used bed springs and sticky-tape but it worked...50 years ago.
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Reply #1 - May 28th, 2025 at 4:51pm
 
'TESTFLIGHT 1 POSTPONED DUE TO PRE-LAUNCH ANOMALY
During final launch preparations last night, an electrical fault triggered the system that opens the rocket’s nose cone (the payload fairing).
𝗔𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁, 𝘄𝗲’𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻 to fully understand what happened and make any necessary updates.'

This may involve changing 'open' to 'close' a switch. NSW Railways is on the case and is untangling a pantograph, cable and Union OHS regulations.
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Reply #2 - May 28th, 2025 at 7:58pm
 
Maybe it just needs a Welcome to Country ceremonial smoking?
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Reply #3 - May 28th, 2025 at 8:14pm
 
By the late 10th century in the Song Dynasty (960-1279), the Chinese had adapted gunpowder to rockets. To make such an arrow, first a papertube was made; then the gunpowder was put inside the tube, which was then attached to an arrow to be launched by a bow. Then the gunpowder was directly carried inside an arrow. It was smoking to welcome to country.
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