{"id":654823,"date":"2026-06-23T23:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654823\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T23:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:11:10","slug":"leeds-university-students-appeal-for-help-finding-lost-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654823\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds University students appeal for help finding lost rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For nine months, a group of engineering students worked building a rocket which they hoped to send 50,000ft (15,240m) above the Earth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 13ft (4m) long Gryphon II (G2) was successfully launched from a military training range at Cape Wrath in the far north of Scotland on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it did not splash down in the sea where they expected &#8211; and now members of Leeds University Rocketry Association (Lura) are hunting for their missing rocket. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seb Bull, one of the students who has been searching for G2 with the help of local fishermen, said: &#8220;It was like looking for a needle in a haystack. It&#8217;s a large area of sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They had hoped to break a UK amateur altitude record but they need the rocket to verify the record. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They believe it may have washed up on the north Highland coast or drifted out to Orkney or Shetland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For nine months, a group of engineering students worked building a rocket which they hoped to send 50,000ft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-654823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}