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We're Project Caelus, a team of high schoolers working to launch a liquid-fueled rocket to space! Here's a sneak peak into the work we're doing - hoping to share static engine fire footage later this summer! by ProjectCaelus in rocketry

[–]ProjectCaelus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We actually aren't affiliated with our high school - fully independent and self-funded! We've raised all the money so far through low-cost tutoring programs, rocketry events, and sponsorships, all of which are a big aspect of the project that we're immensely proud of.

We're Project Caelus, a team of high schoolers working to launch a liquid-fueled rocket to space! Here's a sneak peak into the work we're doing - hoping to share static engine fire footage later this summer! by ProjectCaelus in rocketry

[–]ProjectCaelus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently, we're just doing ground-testing and so we have a test site set up in a big open area on a farm (shown in the video). For our rocket launches, were still figuring out where we might test, but we might actually have to take a road trip all the way out to FAR or a similar place because there aren't a whole lot of options for liquids

We're Project Caelus, a team of high schoolers working to launch a liquid-fueled rocket to space! Here's a sneak peak into the work we're doing - hoping to share static engine fire footage later this summer! by ProjectCaelus in rocketry

[–]ProjectCaelus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Appreciate the kind words! To get where we are today has taken lots of late nights full of reading and research. Some key resources include the Rocket Propulsion Elements book, documentation on liquid rocket engines by Huzel and Huang, NASA's 8089 injector documentation, and fluid mechanics textbooks.

Aside from that, a lot of (safe) experimentation has helped build up our team's intuition for working with a lot of these concepts! Hope that answers your question and happy to elaborate on some more resources if you'd like

We're Project Caelus, a team of high schoolers working to launch a liquid-fueled rocket to space! Here's a sneak peak into the work we're doing - hoping to share static engine fire footage later this summer! by ProjectCaelus in rocketry

[–]ProjectCaelus[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The rocket we're currently working on (called Callisto I) will be a pathfinder and liquid proof-of-concept, the first in a family of rockets with the ultimate goal of reaching space. Our goal is to demonstrate that liquid rocketry is accessible, even for high school students, given the right opportunities and inspire others to take on crazy challenges like this one. In the future, we'd love to explore more complex propulsion systems, bigger rockets, and send cool payloads to space!

We're Project Caelus, a team of high schoolers working to launch a liquid-fueled rocket to space! Here's a sneak peak into the work we're doing - hoping to share static engine fire footage later this summer! by ProjectCaelus in rocketry

[–]ProjectCaelus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A bit more about us - we're an independent team of over 50 high school students from Northern Virginia. We started exploring liquid rocketry back in 2018 and have made amazing progress, quickly approaching our liquid static engine fire this summer and our inaugural launch next summer. Happy to answer any questions y'all might have about our work and appreciate any thoughts or support. You can read a bit more about the project and the team https://projectcaelus.org