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Model Rocket Nails Vertical Landing After Three-Year Effort

Model rocketry has always taken cues from what’s happening in the world of full-scale rockets, with amateur rocketeers doing their best to incorporate the technologies and methods into their …

That’s not always an easy proposition, though, as this three-year effort to nail a SpaceX-style vertical landing aptly shows. First of all, hats off to high schooler [Aryan Kapoor] from JRD Propulsion for his tenacity with this project. They both live in a 3D printed gimbal mount with two servos that give the stack plus and minus seven degrees of thrust vectoring in two dimensions, which is controlled by a custom flight computer with a barometric altimeter and an inertial measurement unit.

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