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2002 Archived News by October Science
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Wednesday, May 22, 2002 |
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GREEN BAY, Wisconsin USA -- October Science Educational Industries, LLC. provides a kit with materials and instructions to make their own small-scale model rocket motors. The new product titled, the Bravo Niner Rocket Motor Kit, is now available from the company's website.
The kit is ideal for school science fair projects, for adults looking for a new rocketry challenge, and for and teenage rocketeers - working under adult supervision - who have become bored with conventional model rocketry, according to the company. The kit provides materials to make up to 40 "B" class model rocket motors, suitable for a variety of test-stand and flight uses. The motors can be used in conventional kit rockets with ejection-charge-deployed recovery systems.
"Nothing motivates young people to learn math, chemistry and physics like rocketry," says October Science President Jon Drayna. "Ironically, while the greatest opportunity for learning is at the business end of a model rocket, direct work with model rocket motors is widely discouraged. Indeed, unstructured experimentation with rocket motors is, at best, frustrating, and at worst, dangerous. The real value of the Bravo Niner kit is that it creates the structure to deliver consistent results and greatly reduce the danger," he said.
Noting motors made with the kit will cost less than $1.15 each, Drayna added, "The Bravo Niner kit provides twice the science of conventional motors at half the cost." The kit comes complete with all the tools and materials needed to build and fire the motors, except for a few common household items and tools such as screwdrivers, a hammer and scissors. The user makes the propellant using the kit's pre-measured quantities of sugar, potassium nitrate and sulfur in powder form. The process involves no heating of materials (until ignition). The kit includes 15 pages of detailed plain English instructions and information, including 33 photographs and illustrations. The complete instruction book can be downloaded free from the company's web site.
The kit was developed through two years of testing involving hundreds of motor firings, both on test stands and in actual flight conditions. With "B" motor impulse of around 4.2 Newton-seconds, the motors can lift a lightweight rocket to an altitude of about 800 feet, with a peak velocity of more than 200 miles per hour.
The company is currently offering a "Grand Opening" promotion, providing a discount of $10 off the regular price. To take advantage of this limited-time offer, customers must simply put the phrase "Grand Opening $10 discount" in the "Comments" section of the company's Internet order form. With the discount, the cost of the kit is $34.95, or less than a dollar a motor (plus UPS charges and tax for Wisconsin buyers). This offer is not valid in combination with any other discount, promotion or coupon, and is subject to end when noted on the company's Internet order form.
The kit is available to U.S. residents 18 and older through the October Science Web site, http://www.octoberscience.com. October Science Educational Industries, LLC, established in October of 2001, is a privately-owned business located at 2358 Jourdain Lane, Green Bay, Wisconsin, 54301. For more information e-mail
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