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The challenge
This would not be the first amateur
rocket to reach that milestone, that honour having been
achieved by
the Civilian Space eXploration Team on May 17, 2004 with
their outstanding GoFast rocket.
The fundamental difference of the Sugar Shot to Space project
is to achieve the goal using an
honest-to-goodness amateur propellant, rather than the ubiquitous
ammonium perchlorate composite
propellant (APCP) that the GoFast and nearly all professional
and military rockets use. "Sugar propellant",
undoubtedly the most popular propellant used by amateur
rocketry experimentalists worldwide due to its
inherent simplicity and safety, is not a high performance
propellant. Therein lies much of the challenge
of this project.
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