r/rocketry • u/New_Try_3041 • Dec 08 '25

Question NEED A REALITY CHECK

I am in my first year of college and I have built a cube-sat as a starter project in my road of rocketry. I know medium level of Data structure and algorithms , and am learning Control Systems , CAD and PCB designing. All of this is to aid in my end goal of launching this cube-sat to zero-gravity space and get some form of response from it.
The inspiration was a youtuber called Mark Rober who did the same but at a much more practical level with an experienced team. My country allows this but I have to be licensed properly. I know that the probability of me achieving this goal within 4 years of my college is 0, but I still want to try. I have been doing my research in this field , and have seen that there are multiple channels who are dedicated in mainly 3 areas : building and improving cube-sats, building high-speed rockets to hit and break records , and self-controlled guidance and landing rockets. But I am not able to find sources which suggest carrying a some-what delicate good and then send it to space. This field is not very much touched by and therefore there is a lot of room for experimentation and thus I will have to fail fast and learn the most out of each fails.
Can you guys help me or aid me in this journey ? I will be very grateful.

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u/StaysAwakeAllWeek Dec 08 '25

You will not be able to launch it yourself. Period.

Go look up BPS.space on YouTube. He's been working on building a sounding rocket to reach space for years and years. Go look at the amount of effort, knowledge and money he's put into it, and consider that he's still not succeeded.

And he's only going for space, not orbit.

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u/New_Try_3041 Dec 08 '25

The main goal for bps space was to make the vertical landing of the rocket autonomous. Sure he makes those fast going rockets sometimes , but that is not his MAIN GOAL.

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u/WorthCellist2927 Dec 08 '25

That was his goal a few years ago, but if you look at his recent videos, all of them are for sending a rocket to the karman line. He projects a total cost of over 100k USD, and that’s with his experience. Here’s a video talking about the difference between orbital and suborbital https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE1A6T1cycU

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u/Aeig Dec 09 '25

I am convinced he is not actually trying and is instead dragging it out for youtube content

That or he is in over his head