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This page was last updated
Saturday, September 06, 2008
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Fire and Ice is now in the planning stages, with a target date of
the Family Day long weekend. The formal paperwork has been
submitted and accepted by Transport Canada.
The Edmonton Rocketry Club is proud to announce that we are now back at the Telus World of Science for our meeting venue. We
will be meeting in the private lunch rooms behind the cafeteria.
 Executive Meeting at 6:30pm and
General Club meeting at 7:30pm
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LOCATION |
GENERAL INFORMATION |
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4 |
Edmonton Telus World of Science. Lunch rooms to
the right of the entrance behind the cafeteria cashiers |
Discussion of Fire and Ice 9, conceptual discussion
of Alberta Annual Rocket Meet, Presentation on FAI rules of rocketry
competition. |
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1 |
Edmonton Telus World of Science. Lunch rooms to
the right of the entrance behind the cafeteria cashiers |
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| Dec
6 |
Edmonton Telus World of Science. Lunch rooms to
the right of the entrance behind the cafeteria cashiers |
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 Please note, weather information will be posted 3 days before launch day.
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LOCATION AND GENERAL INFORMATION
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FORECAST
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TEMP
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WIND
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POP AM
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Sept 14
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Club Launch
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For location and
directions, please contact the Edmonton
Rocketry Club
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1300
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1700
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scheduled
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Sept 19,20,21
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Sullivan Lake
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Location TBA, Visit
the Calgary Rocketry
Association for details
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scheduled
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Oct 19
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Club Launch
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For location and
directions, please contact the Edmonton
Rocketry Club
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1300
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1700
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scheduled
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We like to hold events on days where temperatures/wind chill will be tolerable. If the temperature forecast high for the day is less than -10 deg C, if the wind is going to be 20km/h or greater, or if the POP will be greater than 50% we may postpone the launch. Please check this web site the morning of the launch to verify we are a go for launch.
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*** Yellow background specifies caution, this may lower anticipated maximum ceiling, Red background specifies cancellation
criteria
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Notice: The
Edmonton Rocketry Club is always on a search for a large field within a 1 to
2 hours drive of Edmonton to be a potential site for a high power rocket
launch.
Are you interested in watching or
participating in a high power launch and have such a field or know someone
who does?
If so, please read the following
information for more details:
The site would ideally be between
1 to 4 sections of pasture land, with a minimum of trees. The site would be
used a minimum of once per year up to a maximum of 4 times per year. Any
launches conducted on the site will be under the rules and regulations of
the Canadian Association of Rocketry, (CAR), and with the formal written
approval of Transport Canada and a mandatory requirements for an CAR
approved Range Safety Officer and Launch Control Officer to be in attendance
at all times. Please note that every person launching High Power rockets is
required to be a CAR member or member of a recognized national rocketry
association member.
Please Contact Us
anytime regarding a launch site potential.
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2004 Edmonton Rocketry Club. All rights reserved.
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Feature Rocket |
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This six-story Minotaur rocket soared off
its launch pad from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying an
experimental military spacecraft.
Billed before launch as a potentially
stunning blastoff, the mission delivered with a fast-growing cloud of
colors painted in the darkening sky. Residents throughout central and
southern California were treated to ringside seats, but folks as far
away as Utah, Nevada and Arizona witnessed the incredible sight.
Television stations and local authorities reported being flooded with
calls wondering what had happened.
The Minotaur's ascent to reach the
desired orbit around Earth was timed perfectly to produce a spectacular
"twilight phenomenon" that occurs when rockets or missiles are
launched just before sunrise or shortly after sunset. Unburned fuel
particles and water drops in the rocket's contrail freeze in the less
dense upper atmosphere and get reflected by sunlight at high altitudes
to generate such breath-taking scenes. The winds aloft twist the exhaust
cloud, giving it a corkscrew effect.
Click
here for Full story from Spaceflightnow.com |
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