Soren's Rocket
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Hi all. New to the site but a vintage rocketeer. As a total scratch builder / designer, I have a fleet of rockets that I designed myself and occasionally I'll do a rendition of something I didn't design but wanted to build. You may remember Soren of Star Trek Generations, (the bad guy).
Public Missiles designed his rocket and there were no available plans for it so I went about it the hard way and came up with a pretty good rendition. Hasn't been flown yet but I'm anxious to get it up. Used BT 70 for the main airframe, hand made the clear payload section and turned the nose on my lathe. Didn't have much choice on these notes. Was wondering if any of you has attempted one of these. |
Looks good. Paramount was stingy by not letting PML offer info or sell a kit.
Are you going to create a scale Nexus or just launch it into a thunderstorm? :cool: |
I agree. I searched hi & lo for something and all I found was a good photo of it on display. I used that in Autocad to do a basic layout. Public Missiles said they had no available build photos and the movie pyro techs did the payload section. I had to capture photos from a YouTube portion of the movie that gave me a 50% advantage of the payload interior. 1/2 of it looks like the real thing and the other 1/2 was off the hip.
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Very nice!
It's a little late for this one but where you can see the recessed middle parts, it would make a perfect night launch rocket if you could recess some l.e.d.'s around there. Great rocket though! Randy www.vernarockets.com |
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What a funny coincidence, I watched that movie with my children a few days ago.
I forgot that it had a rocket in it (the last time I saw it was during its theatrical release in 1994, way before I got back into rocketry). Does anyone know if an HPR was used? Greg |
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Yes, it was HPR. If you watch the credits you will see Public Missiles Limited (PML) that we've mentioned here. :cool: Edit: Straight from Andy Waddell's lips.....er fingertips: Quote:
And after a little more hunting, I believe they were flown on single use Aerotech K1050's. . |
Thanks and that is cool! :cool:
Now that you wrote that, I now remember that I stumbled across that info at a PML or PML-related site (but that a few years ago, and I've slept since then). I think that rocket prep is much easier if you are just concerned with the "going up" part! :chuckle: Greg |
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@ Randy...Yes I considered the led lights but didn't bother. I'm not going to launch it in the dark anyway. @ Paul...Yes, Separation point is below the payload section. I was amazed it weighed in at 9 ounces when completed and anticipated the use of 24mm motors from the start. I'd prolly fly it with no less than a D-9-4. Sure would be nice to post the video I'm going to take.
Sorry. I meant D-12-3. |
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Here is the PML website about Soren's Probe rocket |
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