BOARDING
Categories:
Aerospace
Academic
Tools and software used:
SOLIDWORKS
Objective Problem:
Successfully simulate and launch a rocket capable of having successive staging of motors with both stages being recoverable.
Constraints:
Limited student research has been done with successive motor deployment with full electronic recovery systems in both stages.
My Contribution:
Laid the groundwork, foundations, and scope of the project. Created the preliminary CAD drawings and OpenRocket simulations before the project was further developed to include a dual deployment system.
—Pending further development on this project—
Describe the team:
Initially alone. This project will now be worked on by a team from Rocket Club including myself.
TESTING:
N/A as of now
ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS:
A tapered design inspired by Saturn V reduces mass towards the upper stages. This was chosen to give the smaller upper-stage motor a higher thrust-to-weight ratio (TWR).
CAD and Analysis:
The entire base and single stage of the rocket has been modeled in SOLIDWORKS.
Fabrication Process:
N/A as of now
Results:
N/A as of now
Lesson(S) Learned:
N/A as of now