1 / 11

Flight Readiness Review

3/19/09. Flight Readiness Review. Animal Motor Works (AMW) K475WW High Power Rocket Motor. 54 mm casing, 40.3 cm long, 2.9 seconds burn time, 1394 N-sec total impulse , and 474.2 Newtons average thrust. Motor Selection. Rocket flight stability in Rocksim static margin diagram.

flo
Download Presentation

Flight Readiness Review

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. 3/19/09 Flight Readiness Review

  2. Animal Motor Works (AMW) K475WW High Power Rocket Motor. 54 mm casing, 40.3 cm long, 2.9 seconds burn time, 1394 N-sec total impulse, and 474.2 Newtons average thrust. Motor Selection

  3. Rocket flight stabilityin Rocksimstatic margin diagram • Thestability margin is 3.45

  4. Thrust to weightmotor selectionin flight simulation • 474 N average thrust • 221 oz

  5. Rail exit velocity • Launch guide length: 96.0000 In. Velocity at launch guide departure: 60.3 ft/s

  6. Parachute sizes and descent rates • The drogue parachute parachute was built by Ernie Puckett and descent rate is 88 ft/s. • The hemispherical main parachute was donated by Edward Warinski of Alpha Hybrids. • Velocity at landing: Vertical: 17 ft/s. • 54inches in diameter with 8 inch spill hole.

  7. Test plans and procedures • The first flight of our scale model occurred January 17, 2009. • The full scale rocket was flown on March 14, 2009 • Video footage from March 28:

  8. Full-sized final rocket flight test

  9. Dual deploymentavionics test • We successfully tested the avionics in both rockets and we are using the same equipment in the full sized rocket with an added G-Wiz flight computer back up system.

  10. Ejection chargeamount test • We used .75 grams of black powder in the scaled down rocket. We calculated this using the uroc.org black powder calculation website: http://uroc.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=628 • We used 1.4 grams of black powder for the drogue parachute and 1.7 grams of black powder for the main parachute. We used the black powder calculator on: http://www.info-central.org/recovery_powder.shtml

  11. Payload integration feasibility • Camera bay hatch. • "Record" access hole added to hood. • Transmitting GPS donated as a loaner. Small logging GPS and a sonic locator optional.

More Related