P08106: Flying Rocket Body & Rocket Stage Integration

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1 PROJECT OVERVIEW
- 1.1 P01806 Specific Overview
- 1.2 High Level Objective
2 Sponsors
3 Administrative Information
4 Team Documents

PROJECT OVERVIEW

P01806 Specific Overview

This year's Rocket Stage Integration team is focused on delivering a system capable of receiving the rocket motor (from P08105). This includes transferring the forces of thrust throughout the entire rocket assembly in addition to delivering the oxidizer (N2O) to the rocket motor.

The goal of this team is to design, analyze and manufacture a working integration system for the rocket engine with the design constraints of a 20 second flight with thrust in excess of 150 pounds force, and a thrust-to-weight ratio above 2 at 80,000 feet.

High Level Objective

Project METEOR is a multiple-stage rocket designed to deliver small payloads into low earth orbit. The current rocket is composed of a solid fuel element in combination with liquid oxidizer in order to generate thrust. Previous METEOR teams have developed multiple components of the entire family of projects. These projects include rocket engine design, test stands, satellite design, and ground launch platforms. Current teams include rocket engine refinement, oxidizer system integration, satellite refinement and test stand refinement.

The goal of the mechanical design teams for the 2007-2008 academic year is to produce a working rocket assembly capable of a flight of 20 seconds with a thrust of over 150 pounds force at 80,000 feet.

Administrative Information

Project Name: Rocket Stage Integration aka Motor-less Rocket
Project Statement: Senior Design group P08106, which is the second flying rocket body team for the third rocket stage will be building off of the progress generated by the original flying rocket body team of P07109 in the 2006-07 academic year.
Project Family: METEOR projects P08104 through P08107
Project Track: Aerospace Systems and Technology
Start/End Term: Fall/Spring which consists of academic quarters 2007-1 and 2007-3
Customer: Dr. Dorin Patru; Electrical Engineering; 585 - 475 - 2388; dxpeee@rit.edu
Faculty Guide: Dr. Jeffery Kozak; Mechanical Engineering; 585 - 475 - 2148; jdkeme@rit.edu
Primary Sponsors: Harris Corporation and RIT
Team Members: Nathan Confer; Tony Nimeh; Maggie Anderson; Chris Wergin; Tim Seibert

Team Documents

Team Documents are constantly changing and being updated as the project progresses. Currently, the detailed integrated rocket assembly is being displayed.

Published Documents

Currently, only concept review documentation is being shared via links to power point as seen below. However, due to EDGE's poor interface with Power Point, the user must right click, save file as, and then set the file extension to ".ppt" in order for the document to be viewed properly.

Concept Design Review

Project/Concept Overview

Detailed Design Review

Managerial Design Review

Poster Publication ( imagine RIT )

Final Poster Publication ( final )

Final Design Review

Technical Paper

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