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
Jul302015

"Snowstorm's" ignominious end...

DateThursday, July 30, 2015 at 8:53PM

Earlier this week the September issue of Discover magazine came to our mailbox, and in it is a wonderful, yet at the same time poignient, picture spread on the Russian shuttle program's sad end. The link to the main photo is HERE and of course you can pick up a copy on the newsstand. 

Apparently the original Buran ("snowstorm" in Russian) shuttle, the only one of the 3 built that actually flew in space, was destroyed in a hanger collapse in 2002. The other 2, one that was destined for space and the other built as the test bed for systems and testing hear on earth, lie in another deteriorating hanger in Baikonur Cosmodrome collecting dust and bird droppings, gradually rotting away. 

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