{"id":6351,"date":"2014-07-18T01:01:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T05:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=6351"},"modified":"2014-07-17T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T15:08:16","slug":"designing-a-rocket-to-break-the-amateur-altitude-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2014\/07\/designing-a-rocket-to-break-the-amateur-altitude-record.html","title":{"rendered":"Designing a Rocket to Break the Amateur Altitude Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Combustian-Chamber-Assembly-in-SolidWorks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6353\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Combustian-Chamber-Assembly-in-SolidWorks-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"Combustian Chamber Assembly in SolidWorks\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Combustian-Chamber-Assembly-in-SolidWorks-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Combustian-Chamber-Assembly-in-SolidWorks-615x481.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Combustian-Chamber-Assembly-in-SolidWorks-120x93.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Combustian-Chamber-Assembly-in-SolidWorks.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin Healy<\/strong> just completed his sophomore year at <a title=\"Baylor university\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/\">Baylor University<\/a> and is designing a rocket to break the amateur altitude record.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6354\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Fuel-Injector-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"Fuel Injector\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Fuel-Injector-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Fuel-Injector-615x473.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Fuel-Injector-120x92.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Fuel-Injector.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kevin is using SolidWorks to create his design with guidance and support from engineers at SpaceX in McGregor, Texas where SpaceX tests their engines.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6355\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-11-at-8.53.11-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-06-11 at 8.53.11 PM\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-11-at-8.53.11-PM.png 125w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-11-at-8.53.11-PM-120x107.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kevin heads up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.horizonrocket.com\/\">Horizon Rocket<\/a> project.\u00a0 The goal of the project is to build a rocket that he hopes will create a new amateur altitude record of 72 miles.\u00a0 Kevin\u2019s advisor is chemist, <strong>Dr. Vanessa Castleberry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Kevin for sharing with the SOLIDWORKS community.\u00a0 Marie<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Healy just completed his sophomore year at Baylor University and is designing a rocket to break the amateur altitude record. Kevin is using SolidWorks to create his design with guidance and support from engineers at SpaceX in McGregor, Texas<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2014\/07\/designing-a-rocket-to-break-the-amateur-altitude-record.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5498,5203,4015,5209],"tags":[5073,5508,4328,3931,4327,5509],"class_list":["post-6351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace","category-current-affairs","category-mechanical-engineering","category-physics-2","tag-3dcad","tag-altitude","tag-rocket","tag-solidworks","tag-space","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6358,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions\/6358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}