Team successfully tests domestically made rocketGREAT PROGRESS: The HTTP-3A is the first hybrid rocket in the world to have guidance and control technology — a major technological breakthrough, the ARRC director saidBy Wu Po-hsuan, Tsai Chang-sheng and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writerResearchers from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University’s Advanced Rocket Research Center (ARRC) yesterday successfully tested the second-stage propulsion system of a domestically designed rocket. The HTTP-3A hybrid sounding rocket launches yesterday from a site at Syuhai Village in Pingtung County’s Mudan Township. Researchers from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University’s Advanced Rocket Research Center (ARRC) yesterday successfully tested the second-stage propulsion system of a domestically designed rocket. “The HTTP-3A is the world’s first hybrid rocket with guidance and control technology. The launch allowed the team to test its self-developed, six degrees of freedom mission-analysis simulator, called ZIYASim, he said, adding that it was the first successful rocket launch at the launch site.
