{"id":15064,"date":"2017-10-15T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T21:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15064"},"modified":"2017-10-15T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T19:11:11","slug":"project-karman-ucb-undergrad-team-aims-to-launch-rocket-past-100-kilometers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15064","title":{"rendered":"Project Karman: UCB undergrad team aims to launch rocket past 100 kilometers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleyse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project Karman<\/a> is an undergraduate student led initiative at UC Berkeley to design, build, and launch a rocket that exceeds 100 kilomters in altitude. They currently have a crowdfunding campaign underway, which has raised $13,725 so far towards a goal of $25,000 with 16 days left:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crowdfund.berkeley.edu\/project\/7450?utm_source=scalefunder&amp;utm_campaign=amb_share&amp;utm_name=k9ridlwcaco4fjb0x3pclzz&amp;utm_medium=plain\">UC Berkeley | PROJECT KARMAN: 1 Launch, 10 Months, 100 Kilometers to Space!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The group is also challenging students at other schools to compete with them to reach the Karman Line:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crowdfund.berkeley.edu\/project\/7450\/updates\/1\" target=\"_d\">PROJECT KARMAN goes global<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Tonight, we officially challenged colleges across the globe to join us in the\u00a0Intercollegiate Space Race of the 21st Century, competing to see who can truly be the first college team to reach space with its own rocket. Through the\u00a0UN-backed World Space Week Association, we were able to broadcast\u00a0this challenge internationally! See their Facebook post here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/WorldSpaceWeek\/posts\/?ref=page_internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/WorldSpaceWeek\/posts\/?ref=page_internal<\/a>. To see more details regarding the formal rules of the competition, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/berkeleyse.org\/spacerace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">berkeleyse.org\/spacerace<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A video about Project Karman:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x4ptiotadas?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And here is a profile of one of the students &#8211; Autumn Kleinman &#8211; working on the project:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanclementetimes.com\/61060-2\/\">Rocket Ambitions: San Clemente Native Works on Suborbital Craft with UC Berkeley club | San Clemente Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group estimates the final cost of the Eureka-1 rocket project to be about $250k. They hope to reach this figure with additional crowd-funding, grants, and sponsorships.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is for Eureka-1 to be reusable and to fly many times:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">While the technical know-how to send payloads to space has existed for over 60 years, the requisite technology has remained incredibly expensive, failure-prone, and dangerous to use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Recent advances in materials science coupled with proprietary cost-saving technologies have allowed Space Enterprise at Berkeley to entirely eliminate the turbo pump, the single most expensive and delicate element of modern rocket engines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This innovation has allowed us to reduce the typical $2.8 million price tag of a suborbital launch to less than $150,000. In addition, in-development recovery systems will allow for a fly-land-fly turnaround for Eureka-1. With full implementation of this system, Eureka could fly multiple times per week, with only a short refurbishment and refueling period between launches. This would reduce total launch cost to less than $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of other videos from Project Karman:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xovz5RqFayQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uFKgMf-sP14?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Karman is an undergraduate student led initiative at UC Berkeley to design, build, and launch a rocket that exceeds 100 kilomters in altitude. They currently have a crowdfunding campaign underway, which has raised $13,725 so far towards a goal of $25,000 with 16 days left:\u00a0\u00a0UC Berkeley | PROJECT KARMAN: 1 Launch, 10 Months, 100 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15064\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Project Karman: UCB undergrad team aims to launch rocket past 100 kilometers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-rockets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3UY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16182,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16182","url_meta":{"origin":15064,"position":0},"title":"Base11 Space Challenge: $1M prize for a student team whose liquid-fueled rocket reaches 100km","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The non-profit organization\u00a0Base\u00a011\u00a0led by\u00a0Landon Taylor\u00a0has organized a rocketry competition for university\u00a0students that is offering a $1M cash prize: The Base11\u00a0Space Challenge\u00a0is a $1 million+ prize for a student-led university team to design, build, and launch a liquid-propelled, single-stage rocket to an altitude of 100 kilometers (the\u00a0Karman\u00a0Line) by December 30, 2021.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Contests and Games&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Contests and Games","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/y3Zao485HIg\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":18660,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18660","url_meta":{"origin":15064,"position":1},"title":"Space transport roundup &#8211; May.3.2019","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A sampling of recent articles, videos, and images dealing with space transport: ** SpaceX to try again to launch a Falcon 9 early Saturday morning with the Cargo Dragon for mission CRS-17 to the ISS. 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