NASA Whoosh Rocket

Re:NASA Whoosh Rocket by nickmcc on Thursday March 20, 2025 @11:52PM (#43431633)

For the latest in multi-stage high pressure, high altitude water powered rockets, this group is paving the way: https://youtu.be/xm-tGJxepUw?si=uGA--H1kPgBCVREd

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Re:NASA Whoosh Rocket by hermitcrab on Friday March 21, 2025 @01:25PM (#43438527)

That is pretty impressive. Large empty spaces like that are a bit hard to come by in the UK.

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Re:NASA Whoosh Rocket by rainingmonkey on Monday March 24, 2025 @01:39PM (#43463516)

"As at April 2022: 8.7% of land in England is of developed use, with 91.1% of non-developed use and the remaining 0.2% being vacant.

The top 3 land use groups were ‘Agriculture’ (63.1%), ‘Forestry, open land and water’ (20.1%), and ‘Residential gardens’ (4.9%)."

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Re:NASA Whoosh Rocket by hermitcrab on Monday March 24, 2025 @03:34PM (#43464617)

Perhaps I should have said "large empty spaces where you can launch a sizable rocket".

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