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Warped Reality takes off with a big roar

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Some friends, my son and I went to the Black Rock Desert for the Mudroc rocket launch event over the weekend. Steve Jurvetson launched his fiberglass rocket called Warped Reality. The 12 feet rocket had a big N1560 motor and went supersonic, reaching over 19,000 feet in a few seconds. We retrieved it about 7 miles north.

 

Here is a short video of the same Warped Reality rocket we launched two years ago: bit.ly/1tZAqMi.

 

I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.

 

-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC9024_hdr1bal1d

 

Update 2016-07-04: Steve Jurvetson posted a video compilation of this launch; it includes a short footage of the high-speed camera: YouTube video & more photos.

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Taken on June 19, 2016