Karman Alpha: Twelve Feet Under Documentary | Project Sunride
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2024
- Students from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sheffield built and launched a two-stage rocket in the Mojave Desert, California with the rocket reaching 22,000ft above sea level.
This launch was an attempt from Project Sunride, the University’s student rocketry team to break its own UK open altitude record of 36,274ft set in 2019. The rocket named Kaman Alpha was aiming for an altitude of 100,000ft, almost triple the current record set by the team.
In order to reach this record altitude, the team built Karman Alpha, a two-stage rocket - containing two solid rocket motors. The first stage was designed to propel the rocket to Mach 1.1 and 8500 feet. After this, the two stages would separate, and the upper stage would accelerate to Mach 3.1 and 100,000 feet. The rocket also contained a custom data logging flight computer, developed by the team over the last year.
The students launched Karman Alpha on 1 July 2023 from the Friends of Amateur Rocketry launch site in the Mojave Desert, California.
Karman Alpha: Twelve Feet Under describes the story of the launch, with interviews from key team members and footage from the week before launch, the launch day, and the recovery process that followed.
Thanks to the United Kingdom Rocketry Association with their support. UKRA mentors have taught the team many lessons through the Team Project Support scheme, and without their support, our projects wouldn't be possible.
www.ukra.org.uk/
See details about UKRA's Team Project Support scheme here: www.ukra.org.uk/tps
Directed by Stephen Lin:
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Read about Karman Alpha in the following news articles:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/acse/news...
www.sheffield.ac.uk/eee/news/...
See more pictures & videos of the Karman Alpha launch on our website:
sunride.space/rockets/karman-...
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In 2024, the Project Sunride team will launch Karman Bravo, the next rocket in our "Karman Series". Karman Bravo is a similar two-stage rocket, expected to launch to an altitude of 120,000 feet. Find out more here:
sunride.space/rockets/karman-...
As of May 2024, the team are carrying out test launches of Karman Bravo in preparation for another launch in the US. The current launch date is scheduled for the 15th of June 2024.
Directed by Stephen Lin
Edited by Stephen Lin and Tom Danvers
Interview by Stephen Lin and Manya Mittal
Title art by Jerry Yao
Narrated by
Tom Danvers
Brandon Sharkey
Dominic Callister
Fintan Cluskey
Merlin Reeves Dyer
Ashley Shaw
Edward George
Sam Beaumont
Samuel Scott
Marawan Shaaban
Zefy Pissaki
Emma Patterson
Sponsors (2022-23) sunride.space/sponsors/
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SF - Space Fleet
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Honestly one of the greatest pieces of media I have ever seen
Im in 100% agreement, incredible work from these lads. Cold moment at 19:54. The quality of production is out of this atmosphere, more ppl need to watch this masterpiece. In my eyes the only thing 12 feet under is the competition. 💯💯💯💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Thx bby for the shout out
Admirable to see young engineers so completely on top of their game :)
it's criminal that theres only 200 views on this. A beautiful rocket and engineering as well, not to mention the video itself. Great work, I hope Bravo works out great.
4.4k after 5 days, still not nearly what this production quality deserves.
Thanks for the video, great effort all round!
Awesome Team Sheffield! Getting the rocket onto the pad and into the air is a great achievement. Rocket science is easy, rocket engineering is hard.
Love finding little gems like these
Really good cinematography and great story telling 🔥
Good job team! Looking forward to your next attempt!
Thank you!
I already had an idea of what the story was, having spoken to some of the guys. This was an amazing story, put together very well. Cant wait for Karman Bravo! Hopefully all the O rings stay in one piece this time!
nice fotage and edition,music etc. And awsome work guys. Bravo.
Cheers:)
It's much harder to reach the karman line by going through the earth...A for effort though!
😂
Such a great video full of amazing memories!
I saw Joe Barnard in the credit is that the man Joey B?
Yes! He filmed a tracking shot of the rocket for us 😄
2132 views at time of watching, hi to y’all in the future when it’s gone viral
Love it. The intensity of a launch event well captured and narrated. Looking forward to the next chapter.
Cheers!
Shovel recoveries at Koehn Lake are always heartbreaking. Best of luck next time!
Thank you!
Not all are heartbreaking. The electronics and data on the last three I dug out at Koehn survived, but I've been flying next door to FAR at the MTA since 1965. I've learned how to construct payloads to survive ground impacts.
you can really feel the story being written during the edit.
Stephen did a great job! 😊
this is so cool!
Amazing story guys, amazing job on both the rocket integration and commentary of the trip❤️
Well done Team Sheffield!!!
Cool film. Thanks for sharing it. Looking forward to hearing how Bravo does. "Success is 99% failure".
We're looking forward to Karman Bravo too, hopefully launching very soon 👀. Cheers for watching!
I saw you guys yesterday at MRC, Good job!
Mission failed, we'll get em next time.
haha just kidding, great job and really fun documentary! you got this!
Cheers! And thank you :)
Love the documentary sm!! Amazing effort :))
Glad you enjoyed it!
great work well down
Great work everyone :)
Cheers Seb 🙌
Gowonnnnn sheff
You gotta feel bad for these poor English kids having their first America experience in California
The AV is a very different part of California. I had some fun times there.
Great video. Well done and looking forward to the next one.
Thank you!