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Ontario students launch rocket 19,354 metres, set new record

Waterloo Rocketry team lead Alex Pacheco tells The National about the moment the team launched their liquid bipropellant rocket, Polaris, breaking the world record for the highest apogee achieved by an amateur liquid-propellant rocket.

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Ontario students launch rocket 19,354 metres, set new record
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Source mix

1 independent editorial domain · 1 opinion/analysis piece

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Signal breakdown

CurrentWire ranked this story 55 of 100 in the snapshot this page was rendered from.

Freshness
13 of 35
Source authority
20 of 20
Coverage breadth
4 of 20
Geographic relevance
10 of 10
Story prominence
8 of 10
Velocity
0 of 5

Strongest signal: source authority, 20 of 20. How each signal is calculated.

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