STEP 1 – Rocket Fuselage.
Fold a sheet of paper in half to find the middle and cut along the crease to cut it in half.
Wrap one half of the paper around the rocket fuselage template tube provided. Lightly roll the paper around the tube and tape, then seal the whole length of the paper tube to make an air-tight seal to form your rocket fuselage.
STEP 2 – Rocket Stabilizing Fins
Fold the other half of the paper to find the middle and then cut in half again
With one of the quarters you have made, fold that in half to find the middle.
Fold each side back ~10mm evenly to forma V shape in the middle
Cut from the center out to edge to form a triangle and then repeat for the other side to make your Stabilizing Fins.
Using some tape, stick the stabilizing fins to each side of the bottom edge of your rocket’s fuselage.
STEP 3 – Rocket Nosecone
First use a piece of tape to hold a Ping-Pong ball onto the top of the rocket’s fuselage. Then use another piece of tape to make an air-tight seal all around the base of the nosecone on the rocket’s fuselage.
Then use another piece of tape to make an air-tight seal all around the base of the nosecone on the rocket’s fuselage.
STEP 4 – Launching the Rocket
Once we have assembled a rocket, we need to use a propulsion system that can impart a force great enough to overcome the rocket’s Inertia, the pull of Gravity and Drag caused by the Friction of air in flight.
To do this:
- We compress air in a tank that can be quickly released through a valve.
- At the end of the valve, a tube that has the same diameter as our rocket’s fuselage is attached.
- By placing our rocket fuselage over this tube, we can both guide the rocket’s direction and release compressed air quickly into the rocket.
When the valve is opened, the force stored in the compressed air is transferred to the rocket, and we have lift-off!