{"id":8889,"date":"2014-09-24T00:45:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T04:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8889"},"modified":"2014-09-24T00:45:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T04:45:24","slug":"video-amateur-rocket-motor-tests-in-mojave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8889","title":{"rendered":"Video: Amateur rocket motor tests in Mojave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video of three rocket motor tests at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/friendsofamateurrocketry.org\/\" target=\"_d\">FAR (Friends of Amateur Rocketry)<\/a>\u00a0site in Mojave, California:<\/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\/FAG8kaMkw1M?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>From the caption:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The first was a successful M-class 6-grain APCP 75mm motor by Eric Beckner. The second is a successful K-class 2-grain 89mm sugar motor by Rick Maschek for the <a href=\"http:\/\/sugarshot.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sugar Shot to Space<\/a> program using sorbitol as the fuel and does not have a core, it burns on two exterior flat sides of the grains. The third and final test is a 6-grain 4.5&#8243; (115mm) sugar motor using dextrose as the fuel by Randy Dorman and his son Theo. Unfortunately, the motor over-pressurized and CATOed at start up.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of three rocket motor tests at the\u00a0FAR (Friends of Amateur Rocketry)\u00a0site in Mojave, California: &nbsp; From the caption: The first was a successful M-class 6-grain APCP 75mm motor by Eric Beckner. The second is a successful K-class 2-grain 89mm sugar motor by Rick Maschek for the Sugar Shot to Space program using sorbitol &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Amateur rocket motor tests in Mojave<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[35,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy-space","category-rocketry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2jn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2141,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2141","url_meta":{"origin":8889,"position":0},"title":"Video: A day at the FAR Mojave test site","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR) posted the video below showing highlights of activities at their Mojave test site on Saturday May, 4th. 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