Rocket Day - Annual High Power Rocket Launch: CANCELLED

Experience the sight and sound of New Zealand amateur rockets in action! Accelerating from zero to hundreds of kilometers an hour in just a few seconds, propelled skywards on a massive flame with the same signature crackle and roar as full-size rockets.

This annual public launch event attracts hundreds of visitors to a fun afternoon watching rockets launch.

Kids or adults keen to give rocketry a go can build and launch a small rocket on the day from between $20 and $40.

The location is 1 hour 15 minutes from Auckland and 20 minutes from Hamilton, in a Waikato paddock. Bring something to sit on, hat, water, sunscreen and sun-glasses (for looking at the sky). Food and drink, toilets and free parking on site. This is a working farm. No pets. Please bring a bag to take home any rubbish.

See theNZ Rocketry National Launch Day webpage for further details and check the front page of the website for weather cancellation updates after Saturday 2nd 1pm.

EFTPOS available. Gates open 11am. Flights from 12pm to 4pm.
Food and drink vendors on site (cash preferred)
New Zealand Rocketry Association Inc is a not for profit community organisation.

Note: the Event Convenor (New Zealand Rocketry Association) will not be liable or responsible for any injury, damage or loss suffered or incurred by you or any person entering, or when you enter, or are on this site. All such injury loss or damage to person or property is at your own risk.