Patterns and Templates for Make: Rockets

This book from Maker Media covers all aspects of building and flying solid propellant model rockets through 40 N-s total impulse, water rockets, and air rockets. Build launchers and trackers and, if you like, explore the math and science behind rocket flight.

This page provides full-size printable templates for the various fins and other irregular parts in all of the projects in the book, as well as RockSim simulation files for the solid-propellent rockets that can be simulated well.

All of the templates are PDF files, which should load and print on practically any computer. The RockSim files have the file extension .rkt; these will load in either RockSim or Open Rocket. Open Rocket is the simulator described in the book, while RockSim was used to find the approximate altitudes listed for the various rockets.

These files may be freely downloaded and copied for non-commercial use.

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