Alasdair Allan has posted on hackster.io an interesting interview with Joe Barnard about the future of Model Rocketry: an hobby that never got the same market success of RC cars. In the last years the success of SpaceX has totally disrupted the heavy launcher market. However in contrast to that rapid pace of development in orbital launchers, the “hobby” rocketry scene has been far more static.
In an age when you can put an open source cubesat into orbit, or build your own ground station for a few hundred dollars, what’s happening in the model rocketry scene?