Manufacture
ARES had never built a team rocket before due to covid, so as the final lockdown ended the team decided to try to build a full scale, high power rocket in 2 weeks before the end of semester. Whilst building the fin can we found that the method used below was quite subpar, leading to improvements in future rockets.
Flight
The team needed an L2 certified rocketeer to be able to fly Big Blue so the maiden flight had to wait a few months. After a very acton packed day filled with failed certification attempts and last minute layups, my L2 flight was successful, allowing our team to light up Big Blue.
After a number of ignition related failures the rocket finally got off the ground and our team finally had a successful launch.
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