AndrewW
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So it has been a fairly long time since I have posted anything on this forum. I still do visit once in a while but since the app stopped being supported I found myself checking in only every other day or so. In addition to that I am considered an essential worker (Power Industry) in my area and find myself busier than ever. Coupled with the lack of launches I am finding it a bit more difficult than usual to get into rocketry at the moment. Due to lack of actual rocket related activity on the forum I am feeling that others may be feeling the same. My goal with this thread is inspire some and learn from others and that is it. This thread is by no means meant to take away from the seriousness of the Covid-19 Pandemic but rather to provide some distraction from it.
This is a team project and we all generally maintain a very low online profile preferring to interact more in person than via keyboard. But in light of the current situation we are feeling really disconnected from the rocketry community as a whole. This is why we have decided to share this project online.
I just want to make a point up front that this is a team project and although we all have a decent amount of experience, the decisions and choices we have made are ours and ours alone. This may not be the way everyone chooses to build a project like this but this is what we have come up with so far. Our overriding set of criteria to date has been Safety, Reliability and Mission Success and in that order. If one of those three cannot be fulfilled then it is back to the drawing board to figure a better way.
This will not be a typical build thread as over 9 months have already been invested in the project. It will be more of a recap to date followed by a continuation of the build. In the following days and weeks I hope to introduce myself and the team as well as document some of the unique challenges we have encountered so far.
Some basic information regarding the project:
This is a team project and we all generally maintain a very low online profile preferring to interact more in person than via keyboard. But in light of the current situation we are feeling really disconnected from the rocketry community as a whole. This is why we have decided to share this project online.
I just want to make a point up front that this is a team project and although we all have a decent amount of experience, the decisions and choices we have made are ours and ours alone. This may not be the way everyone chooses to build a project like this but this is what we have come up with so far. Our overriding set of criteria to date has been Safety, Reliability and Mission Success and in that order. If one of those three cannot be fulfilled then it is back to the drawing board to figure a better way.
This will not be a typical build thread as over 9 months have already been invested in the project. It will be more of a recap to date followed by a continuation of the build. In the following days and weeks I hope to introduce myself and the team as well as document some of the unique challenges we have encountered so far.
Some basic information regarding the project:
- Air frame: 4” to 3” MD Two Stage FG Airframe w/FG and CF Fins
- Booster Propulsion: N Class EX (Bates Grain)
- Sustainer Propulsion: M Class EX (D Grain)
- Team Members: 5
- Expected Altitude: 100k +
- Expected Velocity: M2.8 +