Frozenferrari
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Good afternoon everyone, and welcome to the official thread for the flight of illimitato, my 2 stage sounding rocket and 200,000ft attempt. This project has been an ongoing effort of mine for a little over 4 years now, and slowly but surely it has worked its way from being sketches in a notebook to being a real, simulated design, ready for build
only not quite yet!
The design has reached a finalized stage, and almost everything has been quoted and planned out, except for a machine job of the interstage transition. Over the course of the next few months I intend to sniff out a machinist willing and able, and set up a Kickstarter profile for funding, as I expect this project to be quite expensive (See linked budgeting sheet) . During this period it will also undergo TRA Class III board of reviewal, and a waiver to 300,000 feet will be secured.
The plan is to fly at either the AeroNaut, XPRS or BALLS 2015 launches at Black Rock Desert, as both of these provide a prime launching environment.
Designed to be stable from 100mph to mach 5, the vehicle will be built from only the most premium materials available for the task in order to survive extreme aerodynamic loading. In a temporarily airtight avionics bay, it will be lofting a GoPro Hero4 Black Edition, capturing 4Kp30 footage of the entire ride up, in portrait orientation. The concept of the project is to capture a quick transition from blue to black sky as the rocket leaves the atmosphere, and to go really really high!
I have been working on this project for a long time now, continuously consulting with a team of highly experienced rocketeers formed by friendship at Black Rock Desert launches and others. I am confident in the success of the design based on the rather tried and true profiles of the stages, but I am excited to learn what I can from any results of flight overall. I am hopeful that I can inspire enough rocketry enthusiasts and science lovers around the world to help me achieve this feat, as it is not something I can financially support on my own. If you would like to donate to the cause, the Kickstarter funding page will be set up shortly. I need to find that machinist first!
All documentation for the project is now available for public review, including but not limited to the overall project writeup, a budgeting sheet of forecasted costs, exported simulative data from OR, simulative models from OR and RAS and all 3D CAD models of the vehicle. If you would like to know something, dont hesitate to ask!
As always I appreciate everyone stopping by to have a look at the project, and I thank everyone sincerely whom can contribute to it in any way.
Kickstarter: (Not Available Yet)
Facebook: Facebook.com/ProjectBlacksky
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Project Writeup: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qrnum5bnlb3oghp/Project BlackskyPDF.pdf?dl=0
Budget sheet: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o2fibzeb4ael0bw/PRBS.docx?dl=0
N5800 OR Sim Data: https://www.dropbox.com/s/27l48bqp6jcq0h6/n5800wtf.csv?dl=0
Happy Flyin!
Ryan
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The design has reached a finalized stage, and almost everything has been quoted and planned out, except for a machine job of the interstage transition. Over the course of the next few months I intend to sniff out a machinist willing and able, and set up a Kickstarter profile for funding, as I expect this project to be quite expensive (See linked budgeting sheet) . During this period it will also undergo TRA Class III board of reviewal, and a waiver to 300,000 feet will be secured.
The plan is to fly at either the AeroNaut, XPRS or BALLS 2015 launches at Black Rock Desert, as both of these provide a prime launching environment.
Designed to be stable from 100mph to mach 5, the vehicle will be built from only the most premium materials available for the task in order to survive extreme aerodynamic loading. In a temporarily airtight avionics bay, it will be lofting a GoPro Hero4 Black Edition, capturing 4Kp30 footage of the entire ride up, in portrait orientation. The concept of the project is to capture a quick transition from blue to black sky as the rocket leaves the atmosphere, and to go really really high!
I have been working on this project for a long time now, continuously consulting with a team of highly experienced rocketeers formed by friendship at Black Rock Desert launches and others. I am confident in the success of the design based on the rather tried and true profiles of the stages, but I am excited to learn what I can from any results of flight overall. I am hopeful that I can inspire enough rocketry enthusiasts and science lovers around the world to help me achieve this feat, as it is not something I can financially support on my own. If you would like to donate to the cause, the Kickstarter funding page will be set up shortly. I need to find that machinist first!
All documentation for the project is now available for public review, including but not limited to the overall project writeup, a budgeting sheet of forecasted costs, exported simulative data from OR, simulative models from OR and RAS and all 3D CAD models of the vehicle. If you would like to know something, dont hesitate to ask!
As always I appreciate everyone stopping by to have a look at the project, and I thank everyone sincerely whom can contribute to it in any way.
Kickstarter: (Not Available Yet)
Facebook: Facebook.com/ProjectBlacksky
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Project Writeup: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qrnum5bnlb3oghp/Project BlackskyPDF.pdf?dl=0
Budget sheet: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o2fibzeb4ael0bw/PRBS.docx?dl=0
N5800 OR Sim Data: https://www.dropbox.com/s/27l48bqp6jcq0h6/n5800wtf.csv?dl=0
Happy Flyin!
Ryan
View attachment illi85s.ork
View attachment BooRaS.alx1
View attachment SusRAS.alx1
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