Today’s the day! Our second launch! But… I’m not really looking forward to it. Our second nose cone, again printed wrong. I’m mad. I thinking something is wrong with are 3D printer account. But then I heard something. Something that kind of makes me happier. We were getting the wrong measurements. Since this is the second time things have gone wrong and all the other groups were pretty successful. We were tired of this not working and not really looking forward to the second launch. But then, our teacher said we will have a special third launch tomorrow, and we will print a new nose cone again and our teacher is helping. We will be the only group that’ll have a third launch and I’m crossing my fingers that the nose cone prints out right. Here is an image of our 2 bad nose cones. The Black one is the second nose cone the white one was our first nose cone.  Below

Later…

The second launch has happened. Our rocket has gone higher then expected! It might have even gone the highest! I was so happy! Our buddies watched us and also some parents. This launch the rockets went so much higher. The day was perfect! I was a clinometer reader… again, and last time I didn’t like it because the sun was in my eyes but this time it was partly cloudy, and when I was a clinometer reader the sun was behind the clouds. I tried a new job, “data recorder.” I was the data recorder for the two clinometer readers. Anyway, with not a very aerodynamic nose cone it went pretty high. Instead of being a pumper I was the person who put the rocket on the launch pad. But still tomorrow we will have a third launch because things didn’t go as planned. I’ve just checked the two graphs I made from the two launches. Our 1st average height results were 20.1 meters high. Our second launch results were 27.5 meter high. In comparison we did much better in the second launch than the first. The difference between the height of the two launches was 7.4 meters. I think that was a big improvement between the two launches. After we all graphed our launch I figured out our group went the third highest. Last time we were the second lowest group out of 5 groups. All the other groups had a 3D printed nose cone except us because of technical difficulties. So imagine how much higher we can fly tomorrow with a 3D printed nose cone! Overall the problem we faced for the first launch was the wings were too weak, the nose cone was not aerodynamic at all and our wings were not equally spread out. The solutions we did were to have thicker material for the wings and have the same material next to it with tape over both of them so it can be double thickness. Our next solution for the bad nose cone was Megan, the person who printed the nose cone tried to find out the problem. But we couldn’t really find a problem, which later my teacher found out the problem a few hours ’till the launch which we had no time to print again. So then our teacher decided we should have a special third launch with a good 3D printed nose cone, that our teacher will print. Luckily when we were making our inspiration board we made a little model of what our nose cone would soon be(now), and it turned out really well so we decided to use that as our backup nose cone. It had no tape sticking out. It was pretty aerodynamic, but if we had a printed nose cone it might be even more aerodynamic. Our last solution is to make our wings evenly spread out. We did the same way we got our measurements last time and it looked the same but we all knew it wasn’t even, so we tried to move the wings, dozens of times to get what we think is equal and I think it worked.

Conclusion

2/3 of our problems were solved in the 2nd launch. Tomorrow we will have our third launch with hopefully, our third problem fixed. We all worked really hard to get this done, and we’re looking forward to might be our final launch. Our goal is to beat my school record. I think we can do it.

My group Is “No Man Sky” with me, Jonah, Jasper, Megan and Riley. We have traveled a long way in Rocketry, we have accomplished a ton. We have finished our rocket, which by the way looks awesome. Our rocket has 3 wings and we have a little alien in our rocket. We have designed our logo and added “space” as the background in our little logo. Our wings are made out of cardboard with duck tape over it for design and to close the holes in the wing. Our nose is 3-D printed. We’ve come so far from the beginning. I can’t wait for our launch, I will be pumping up the rocket with air for the first launch and I’ll also be putting the rocket on the launch pad for the second launch. We’ve just turned our Isaac Newton Projects in.

The way we created our rocket I think for the launch is going to set a new record for my school. I am so excited!! Our group has worked together so well and I’m really proud of what we accomplished. In the beginning we did our “Inspiration Board.” That was where we took notes on Rocketry and wrote and drew Inspiration for making our rocket. After that we designed our rocket on paper, we wrote down the materials we want to make our rocket out of. After that we starting building our rockets, and that is where we are now and soon we’ll launch our rocket. I give credit to Jonah for designing the wings we should make from an example on our Inspiration Board. Jasper and Jonah created our original logo. “JJRMC,” in a cool form was our logo, that had all our first initials of our names. Riley and Megan were the builders, they made a ton of our stuff. And I got all our images for our Inspiration Board, and made are logo to put on the rocket along with Jasper and Jonah. I LOVE this rocketry unit. Here below is a picture of our finished rocket. Below