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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Wednesday
May072014

ISS HD Earth View up and running on Ustream

DateWednesday, May 7, 2014 at 6:59PM

OK, imagine that you're NASA, and every time you want to put a camera into space you have to get it custom made at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yet today, off-the-shelf HD cameras are available that might do the job for just hundreds, or maybe thousands of dollars, orders of magnitude cheaper. 

That's what the new HD Earth Viewing experiment, delivered to the ISS just a few weeks ago on the last Dragon supply mission, aims to test. Can a consumer off-the-shelf (COTS) camera survive and thrive against the harshness of the space environment. There's 4 cameras, from manufacturers like Panasonic, Sony, and Hitachi, enclosed in a box with a camera facing in all 4 directions. There's some more details on NASA's site HERE, a great info graphic HERE, and more info HERE on Universe Today.

You can watch it live, 24-7, on Ustream at this LINK.

It's also a great way to unwind by the way, and you really get a sense of just how fast traveling at 18,000 mph really is. 

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Reader Comments (1)

I've been viewing that since it came online, great shots!

May 9, 2014 | Registered CommenterJohn Bergsmith
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