Upcoming Launch Schedule

ROCC 2024-2025 Launch Schedule:

NO launch in May due to the wheat. We hope to fly in June. 

 

 All launches are at the Midland, NC site unless otherwise stated.*

Here are some other launch opportunities in our area:

ICBM & ROSCO, better known as Rocketry South Carolina, flies near Dalzelle, SC., Just NE of Shaw AFB.  More information can be gotten at their site HERE

The Saturn Rocketry Club in Hendersonville is currently switching their launch field. As soon as we know where they land we will post it. Their FB site is HERE

NC Rocketry flies at Bayboro, NC in the northeast part of the state, information is HERE

 Set-up starts at about 9:30, launches commence about 10:30. Field closes about 60 min. before local dusk so we can clean up. Watch the site front page for specifics. Also visit us on FaceBook. You can also check for the FAA NOTAM at https://notams.aim.faa.gov/notamSearch/nsapp.html#/ and using KCLT (Charlotte) as the location. This will give you the starting and ending times for HP flights. 

* If field is available due to crops, etc.

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Saturday
Nov052011

Flying NanoSat

DateSaturday, November 5, 2011 at 8:49PM

From NASA's space place, a .pdf of how to construct a flying NanoSat. There's got to be a way to make this into a rocket...

LINK

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AuthorDOC R. | Comments Off |

Reader Comments (4)

Hi Doc,

Any word about a November launch?

November 5, 2011 | Registered CommenterDavid Neiman

Hi Doc,

Please ignore my first message. I know there's a launch scheduled for November 19th and 20th. I was trying to find out how Mr.Williams is doing getting in his crops.

By the way, that which Pete Rossoni calls "nanosats" is what all the eighth-grade girls at Schaaf Junior High (Parma, Ohio, 1956) called "Pinwheels!" Also, the domed top, plus forward and rotational motion of Frisbees is what makes them stay in the AIR. While Newton's first law of motion will apply to nanosats in space, Bernoulli's principle won't do them any good unless NASA plans to launch nanosats into the atmosphere. What I'm trying to say is, a Frisbee launched in space would not act like a Frisbee thrown on the surface of the Earth. And if NASA launched nanosats into the atmosphere, that would remove them from the "satellite" category. Also, spinning Frisbees at launch is what gives them gyroscopic stability (again, Newton's first law of motion.) Was this article really from JPL?

November 6, 2011 | Registered CommenterDavid Neiman

Yep... straight from their education site. I posted it because I had nothing to post and LDRS had been up for a week.
I haven't heard about the 19th definitively yet but I'm hopeful.

dr

November 6, 2011 | Registered CommenterDOC R.

Hi Doc,

I just re-read my posting. I am very sorry for the unintentional smart aleck tone. I was trying for tongue-in-cheek humor, but missed it by a mile. My deepest apologies for sassing you.

November 7, 2011 | Registered CommenterDavid Neiman
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