PREFACE
With the onset of COVID-19 and its fallout, the interrupting supply chains and size limiting or outright cancellation of launches and other rocketry events, how can its spread be stopped? Wearing masks, social distancing, vaccines? No... with an injection... with the... ANTI-VIRUS.
INSPIRATION
And, how are vaccines and the like administered... injected in a syringe.
And, what’s the most distinctive (and memorable) part of a syringe... it’s needle. So too must be the nosecone of this design be.
DESIGN
In formulating the design, the syringe was divided into three corresponding rocket sections, the nosecone, the body, and the fin section. And, in order to maintain a reasonable resemblance to the syringe finger flanges, the fins would need to be different, they would need to be grid fins.
With the design reasonably formulated in my mind, I went to work with OpenRocket.
NOSECONE
The nosecone corresponds to several parts of the syringe: the needle, needle hub, and the syringe tip and barrel top.
A significant concern in the development of the nosecone was the susceptibility of the needle to damage from hard landings. To allow a damaged needle to be easily and readily replaced, the nosecone was divided into three subsections, the needle, needle hub, and syringe tip and barrel top.
But how to actually construct each subsection... and engineer the components to lock together... that came next.
The eyebolt in the Syringe Tip/Barrel Top Section screws into the T-nut in the aft end of the needle, squeezing the Needle Hub Section against the needle centering stop, mechanically locking the three sections together. The .ork file for the nosecone is attached.
[Construction coming soon...]
With the onset of COVID-19 and its fallout, the interrupting supply chains and size limiting or outright cancellation of launches and other rocketry events, how can its spread be stopped? Wearing masks, social distancing, vaccines? No... with an injection... with the... ANTI-VIRUS.
INSPIRATION
And, how are vaccines and the like administered... injected in a syringe.
And, what’s the most distinctive (and memorable) part of a syringe... it’s needle. So too must be the nosecone of this design be.
DESIGN
In formulating the design, the syringe was divided into three corresponding rocket sections, the nosecone, the body, and the fin section. And, in order to maintain a reasonable resemblance to the syringe finger flanges, the fins would need to be different, they would need to be grid fins.
With the design reasonably formulated in my mind, I went to work with OpenRocket.
NOSECONE
The nosecone corresponds to several parts of the syringe: the needle, needle hub, and the syringe tip and barrel top.
A significant concern in the development of the nosecone was the susceptibility of the needle to damage from hard landings. To allow a damaged needle to be easily and readily replaced, the nosecone was divided into three subsections, the needle, needle hub, and syringe tip and barrel top.
But how to actually construct each subsection... and engineer the components to lock together... that came next.
The eyebolt in the Syringe Tip/Barrel Top Section screws into the T-nut in the aft end of the needle, squeezing the Needle Hub Section against the needle centering stop, mechanically locking the three sections together. The .ork file for the nosecone is attached.
[Construction coming soon...]
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