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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.
Sponsors



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.

Planning
Intellectual Property Considerations
Preliminary Work Breakdown Structure
Concept Development
Establish Target Specifications
Detailed System Design
Subsystem 1:TankSubsystem 2:Oxidizer Delivery System
Robust Design:Subsystem Assembly
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.
Poster Publication ( imagine RIT )
Final Poster Publication ( final )