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Capability ladder · step 01 · Rocketry

A prediction, a flight,
and an honest discrepancy.

Rocketry kits and launch programmes for schools and first-year undergraduates. Students compute an apogee before they fly, then measure what actually happened and explain the difference. That loop is the whole of engineering, compressed into an afternoon.
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Entry point
USD 2,000
Audience
Secondary schools · first-year undergraduate
Capabilities
Model and mid-power · Altimeter recovery · Range safety training · Club programme support

01What it teaches

Get something off the ground.

A model rocket is the cheapest way to teach the whole engineering cycle — design, predict, build, fly, measure, explain the discrepancy. Nothing else gives a student a falsifiable prediction and an answer on the same afternoon.
  • 01Thrust, impulse and the rocket equation
  • 02Drag, stability margin and why fins are aft
  • 03Recovery sizing and descent rate
  • 04Predicted versus measured, and the discipline of explaining the gap

02Specification

What is actually in it.

Kit

Airframe
Cardboard or fibreglass, 25–76 mm
Motor classes
A through H, mount dependent
Recovery
Parachute with sized deployment charge
Instrumentation
Barometric altimeter, logged to flash
Reusable
Motor and igniter are the only consumables

Programme

Cohort size
20 – 120 students
Contact hours
18, across six sessions
Instructor training
1 day, includes range safety
Assessment
Flight card, prediction, post-flight analysis
Progression
Feeds directly into EduSat, step 03

03Open · no account required

Tier 05 min

Flight profile simulator

The same integration a student performs by hand in session three, run here in a few milliseconds. Notice how much of the altitude is coast — the motor stops working long before the rocket stops climbing, and that surprises almost everyone the first time.

Open it in the demo lab

Where this sits

See what a programme includes

Every rung shares one curriculum spine and one assessment standard, so a department can start small and grow without re-teaching itself.

  1. Step 01RocketryGet something off the ground
  2. Step 02RoboticsMake it act on the world
  3. Step 03EduSatClose a real link
  4. Step 04SpaceportUnderstand why location is destiny

Next

Test the claims before you talk to us.

Three simulators run in the browser with no account and no form. They are the same computations that run inside the curriculum — if the arithmetic does not hold up, you will find out in ten minutes rather than after a purchase order.

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Tier 0 is open · Tier 1 unlocks on a verified institutional email