Updated: 9:27 p.m. EDT (01:27 GMT) September 27, 2004
Undercover agents from an undisclosed team hoping to set a new world record for water rocket altitude have scoured the internet hoping to find a weakness in the X-10 design they can exploit in their endeavors to construct and fly their own record setting design. Today they have released some of the information that they have been able to obtain regarding this fascinating rocket.
Weight: 850g (empty)
Length: 102.5 inches (Esitmated from photographic evidence)
Diameter: 1.6 inches (Esitmated from photographic evidence)
Pressure Vessel Volume: 3.1 liters (Esitmated from photographic evidence)
Pressure Vessel Composition: Aerospace Composite wrapped Polycarbonate Fluorescent Light Cover
Reaction Mass: Tap Water
Energy Storage Medium: Compressed Air (Compressed in situ from launch site atmosphere)
Nozzle Type: Proprietary High Pressure Frictionless
Nozzle Diameter: Indeterminate
Launch Clamp: Unknown. Referenced as "Proprietary Composite"
Nozzle Seal: Dual Redundant O-ring Seals
Maximum Pressure: Unknown
Altimeter: Dual Redundant Perfectflite Alt15K/WD logging altimeters
Camera: Unknown (Classified)
Flight Computer: Proprietary Custom U.S. Water Rockets Design
Deploy System: Classified. Referenced as an "Electro-Chemical" system.
Recovery System (test flights): Dual Redundant 22" parachutes
Recovery System (record flights); Single 22" parachute
No further information has been unearthed at this time. However, the information gathered thus far has provided a great deal of data which will surely be analized and scrutinized for years to come.
