Open Rocket Examples: A Great Educational Tool

[lakeroadster]

If your trying to explain various rocketry types to a new rocketeer, or if your looking to better understand the geometry and specifics of various rockets, the rocket examples available in Open Rocket is a good choice.

• A simple model rocket,
• Two-stage rocket,
• Three-stage rocket,
• TARC payload rocket,
• Tube fin rocket,
• Airstart timing,
• Base drag hack (short-wide),
• Chute release,
• Dual parachute deployment,
• Clustered motors,
• Parallel booster staging,
• Pods - - airframes and winglets,
• Pods - - powered with recovery deployment
• 

 

[neil_w]

I suspect the example rockets are under-utilized as learning tools, even by more advanced rocketeers. @H. Craig Miller put a lot of work into them for the 22.02 release to make them as realistic as possible and to improve their organization.