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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Thursday
Oct152015

A very wet but well attended Maker Faire!

DateThursday, October 15, 2015 at 8:52PM

Quick update: I got an email from the folks at Discovery Place Thursday afternoon... attendance was right at 3,100 people!  WooHoo!!   dr

My HUGE thanks go out to Michael Hollowell, Laura Bailey, Doug Knight & Roy Potter for stepping up and helping me out to man the tent for the first annual Maker Faire here at Discovery Place! And another really big thanks goes out to Bob Utley at Rockets magazine for sending a box of give-aways for us to hand out. Michael brought his big red Bruiser, which unfortunately had to stay wrapped up most of the day, along with his massive LED-encased night-flight Mosquito. Laura brought flyers and handouts, Doug brought some items from NASA and USLI and Roy brought the best cutaway rocket I've ever seen, along with the infamous Barbie rocket (which was a big hit with the ladies!).

It turned out to be a very wet day, but we had lots of folks come by the booth and had a very good response overall. Many folks hung out in the rain with us for quite a while and chatted about rocketry and Doug got hooked up with some folks that are also working on Cube-Sats, so that was very good indeed. 

Inside Discovery Place there were booths scattered all over the museum with everything from paper-tube bridge making to Battle-Bots, 3-D printing to guitars, a 3-D printed Shelby Cobra to repurposing found junk into art work. 

The staff at Discovery Place were very pleased with the turnout in spite of the weather, and look forward to doing it again next year. 

I've uploaded some pictures from the event from Roy and myself that are in the gallery so you can take a look... enjoy!

Doc R.

 

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