Rocketry Blog Post #2

After we finished building our first rocket it was time to launch my whole group was excited to launch our rockets Because we all worked really hard on the rockets.

 

 I think  my teams launch went really well, our rocket went 118 feet in the air I was pretty surprised because  I thought the fins on our rocket would fall off. My team job was the pumper with Rafa we had to pump the bike pump the air pressure to 50. When we finished that the countdown master (Charles) counted down from ten and when he said RELEASE Maddy pressed the button and the rocket went up in the air the rocket landed with nose cone in the ground and the nose cone now has dirt  in it. Also for the other launches you had to be a Clinometer reader were you had to hold the trigger until the rocket reached its highest point you let go and were ever it was that was how many degrees the rocket went.

 

After we launched the rockets we had to convert the degrees into feet after we did that  we ended up with 118 feet. When it was time to make changes to our rocket my group decided to keep the body and the nose cone but make the fins taller and skinnier for our second rocket because we thought that would make are rocket go higher because it will take more weight off the rocket and push off more air.

 

One of the big reasons that my team was successful on the launch was because of teamwork during the launch because we were all on the same page  we had the right timing for example when the countdown master said release the launcher knew exactly when to press the button. During the analyzing and graphing we worked pretty well together  but when graphing everyone had different answers but we figured it out and did the average of all of them.

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