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Student Launch Initiative
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STUDENT LAUNCH INITIATIVE
2010 – 2011
AIAA OC SECTION
PDR PRESENTATION
December 14, 2010
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Agenda
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Introduction of team members (representing 5
high schools in Orange County California)
Mission statement
Vehicle
• Design
• GPS Transmitter
• Dual Deployment Recovery System
• Propulsion
Scientific payload
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Changes since original posting
on 11/19/2010
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Modified slide #9: miles to mph
Modified slide #11: fixed mistake, main to drogue
Modified slide #15: emphasized separate recovery & payload,
fixed spelling
Modified slide #19: fixed spelling, added photos
Added slide # 3 covering Changes since the first version
Added slide #18 covering Testing
Added slide #20 covering the WebSite
Added slide #24 covering Mile Stones
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Mission Statement
We, the M1 team from the AIAA
Orange County Section, will
construct and launch a rocket that
will reach a mile high while testing
hard drive latency without exceeding
mach. The rocket will include a dual
deployment recovery and will remain
reusable.
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Vehicle – Black Brant
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Length 80 inches
Diameter 4 inches
Material: G-10 Fiberglass (body tubes, couplers, fins)
Liftoff Weight: 18.7 pounds
Descent Weight: 15.7 pounds
Recovery: Dual Redundant Electronics
Center of Gravity: 49.85 inches behind the nose tip
Center of Pressure: 58.97 inches behind the nose tip
Stability Margin: 2.29
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Propulsion
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Target altitude is 5,280 feet
Vehicle must remain subsonic from launch until landing
Motor must lift almost 19 pounds of vehicle and payload with GPS
Once design was completed launches were simulated using Rocksim
Motor selected is Cesaroni K635 Redline
This selection gives margin if larger or smaller motor is required
Motor
K530
K630
K635
K750
K590
Wind
(MPH)
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Total
Impulse
1414
1681
1973
2362
2415
Rocket
Mass
(Ounces)
295
286
299
309
307
Maximum
Altitude
(feet)
3281.73
4399.61
5255.41
6455.77
6767.42
Max
Velocity
(ft/s)
482.43
592.27
657.76
772.76
724.74
Max Accel
(ft/s2)
582.17
582.13
582.18
582.33
652.22
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Cesaroni K635 Redline
Pro54 1994K63517A
Motor Data
Brandname
Pro54 1994K635-17A
Manufacturer
Cesaroni
Technology
Man. Designation
1994K635-17A
CAR
1994-K635-17A
Designation
Test Date
7/6/2003
Single-Use/Reload/Hybrid
Reloadable
Motor
54.00 x 488.00
Dimensions mm mm (2.13 x
19.21 in)
Loaded Weight
1989.90 g (69.65 oz)
Total Impulse
1749.50 Ns
Propellant Weight
1281.00 g (44.84 oz)
Maximum
728.70 N (163.96
Thrust
lb)
656.00 N (147.60
(393.64 lb.s)
Burnout Weight
658.40 g (23.04 oz)
Avg Thrust
Delays Tested
17 - 7 secs
ISP
139.30 s
Samples per second
1000
Burntime
2.66 s
Notes
Red Lightning™
lb)
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GPS TRACKING
Ground Station
Transmitter in Vehicle
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Big Red Bee Beeline GPS
RF: 17mW on 433.920 MHz
Battery and life: 750mAh 10 Hrs
Size: 1.25” x 3” 2 ounces
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• Receiver: Yaesu VX-6R
• TNC: Byonics Tiny Track 4
• GPS: Garmin eTrex Legend
Beeline receives GPS position
• Encodes as AX.25 packet data
• Sends as 1200 baud audio on 433.92 MHz
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VX-6R receives at 433.92 MHz and extracts audio
TinyTrack 4 converts audio to digital NMEA location data
Garmin displays the digital location data on human screen
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Dual Deployment Recovery
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Used to bring down vehicle quickly and minimize drift
Smaller drogue parachute deploys at apogee
Larger main parachute deploys closer to ground at 900 ft
24 inch drogue: descent rate 79.65 ft/s with 19 pound vehicle
96 inch main: descent rate 19.9 ft/s with 16 pound vehicle
Maximum downrange distance is 2500 ft at 10 MPH
Wind speed margin is 7 mph (within 2500 ft to 17MPH)
Wind (MPH)
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Wind (ft/s)
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7.33
14.67
22.00
23.47
24.93
26.40
27.87
Drogue
Range (feet)
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403.26
806.52
1209.78
1290.43
1371.09
1451.74
1532.39
Main Range
(feet)
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331.47
662.93
994.40
1060.70
1126.99
1193.28
1259.58
Total Range
(feet)
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734.73
1469.46
2204.19
2351.13
2498.08
2645.02
2791.97
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Dual Deployment Electronics
• Flight Computer #1
• G-Wiz Partners HCX 56G
• 1.10” x 5.50” 45 grams
• Accelerometer based altitude
• Pyro output at Apogee
• Pyro output at 900 ft altitude
• 9VDC at 65ma for 3 hour battery life
• Separate CPU and Pyro batteries
• Safety interlock switch on body tube
• Flight Computer #2
• Perfectflite MAWD
•0.90” x 3.00” 20 grams
• Barometric pressure based altitude
• Pyro output at Apogee
• Pyro output at 900 ft altitude
• 9VDC at 8ma for 28 hour battery life
• One battery for both CPU and Pyro
• Safety interlock switch on body tube
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Dual Deployment Ejection Charge
Ejection charge is measured amount of black powder
Black powder sealed in cut-off finger of glove
Glove finger contains black powder and electric match
Electronics fire electric match via pyro outputs
Three shear pins require 35lbs/pin or 105 pounds of force
4” bulkhead has 12.56 square inches of surface area
Need a minimum of 8.4 psi – we chose 11psi to give safety margin
Main ‘chute uses 1.27 grams of black powder (on-line calculator)
• Body tube with the main is 4” diameter x 18” long
• Drogue ‘chute uses 0.99 grams of black powder (on-line calculator)
• Body tube with the drogue is 4” diameter x 14” long
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Launch Simulations
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Simulations were run using Rocksim
Over 100 simulations were run to fine tune vehicle
Dimensions, proportions around avionics bay, weights were varied
Target was a margin of stability between 2 and 2.5
Once vehicle was designed varied engines to attain 1 mile altitude
Verified top speed was still subsonic
Verified range at 10MPH wind
Determined wind margin (OK to 17MPH)
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Scientific Payload
• Hypothesis is that high “G” forces and vibration
will dramatically increase the latency time of a
hard disk drive
• Equipment
• Small Linux computer to exercise drive
• 2.5” Toshiba hard disk drive (specs allow
200g forces for short time periods
• G-Wiz partners HCX flight computer to
measure the acceleration
• LiIon Batteries and DC-DC converter
• Method
• Linux script gets a file from the hard drive
• The script measures the time that takes
• Record the time to the thumb drive
• Repeat as fast as possible (approx 100ms)
• Control: Run test while stationary and record
• Experiment: Run same test at launch
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Payload/Vehicle Integration
• Vehicle has a single avionics bay
• Everything is located in a single 4”
diameter x12” long coupler
• Two electronics sleds are separated by
two square, milled pieces of aluminum
• One sled holds all recovery electronics
together with batteries for recovery and
scientific payload
• Second sled holds the scientific payload
• Payload and recovery electronics and
power are completely separate
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Risks
5 The Rocket
weather cocks
10 The rocket
landing in mud
4 The engine
“chuffs”
9 The rocket landing 14 The batteries ‘die’ 19 The Main ‘chute
in a dangerous area during launch
misfires
8 The Linux
3 rocket struggles off Computer isn’t
the launch pad
working
15 The Drogue
‘chute misfires
20 Tracking device
isn’t accurate
25 The altimeter isn’t
set to fire the main 30 The battery(s) of
‘chute at the correct our electronics bay
height
fall out
24 The car running
over the rocket
29 No recovery
system
13 The Drogue
‘chute fires at the
wrong altitude
18 The Main ‘chute
fires at the wrong
altitude
28 The altimeter isn’t
23 shear pins aren’t set to fire the main
put in place
‘chute
27 The black powder
blows the rocket
apart
26 The electric
match doesn’t ignite
the black powder
2 The rocket folds
upon itself
7 The Payload’s
HCX isn’t accurate
12 The engine
explodes
17 The altimeter isn’t
set to fire the drogue 22 Tracking device
‘chute at correct
is damaged in
height
launch
1 rocket misfires
6 Payload isn’t set
up
11 The rockets fin
breaking
16 The altimeter isn’t 21 Tracking device
set to fire the drogue doesn’t transmit
‘chute
radio waves
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Risks Mitigation
5 the design is not
over stable
10 Make sure launch 15 double check
20 Make sure
site is dry
programming on the tracking device
altimeter is correct works
4 make sure igniter
is all the way in the
engine
9 Launch site is
14 use fresh
clear of all
batteries
hazardous materials
3 use the correct
size launch rod
8 double check
13 double check
18 double check
23 double check the 28 double check
programming before programming on the programming on the rocket before placing programming on the
launch
altimeter is correct altimeter is correct on the launch pad
altimeter is correct
2 body tube and
nose cone are
fiberglass
7 Make sure device 12 make sure there 17 double check
22 Make sure
isn’t damaged
is no defects in
programming on the Tracking device is
engine
altimeter is correct secure
1 check continuity
6 double check the
payload is set up
11 Use in wall fins
25 double check
30 Tape batteries
programming on the and double check
altimeter is correct connection
19 double check
24 hope for the best 29 Double-check
programming on the
our rocket is set up
altimeter is correct
correctly
27 make sure black
powder amount is
correct
16 double check
21 double check
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programming on the tracking device is on electric match is
altimeter is correct
touching the black
powder
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Safety
• Follow NAR and TRA safety rules for launch
• Safe material usage restrictions
• Safe distance from launch pad
• Safe recovery area
• Inspection by range safety officer before flight
• Follow our check list when preparing for launch
• Have fire extinguisher and first aid kit on site
• Follow our own (AIAA OC Section Rocketry) safety rules for
shop as well as launch (attached to the proposal and the PDR
• MSDS referred to as needed and can be found on our web
site
• Manuals are posted on the web site since they contain set-up
information for recovery electronics
• Presentation given to all team members with their signature
that they attended and understand
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Testing
• Learn how to configure the flight computers and test on the “bench”
• Set up the flight computers and test with Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)instead of
electric matches
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Test the ejection charges
• Set up 4” diameter body tubes with volume same as the design and set off the
ejection charges - parachutes should eject without damage to the rocket body
• Repeat test using the flight computers in simulated flight
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Test the battery life
Run recovery and payload electronics and validate the batteries will last a minimum
of three hours
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Test the GPS
• Verify we can receive and decode the signal from the GPS transmitter at distance,
and at ground level and 6 feet above ground level
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Test functionality of electronic payload
• Set up the payload and validate it will run on the “bench” – with vibration from
tapping (completed)
• Swing the entire payload overhead in a centrifuge-like manner to simkulate “G”s
the avionics section would experience during launch – validate data is collected
similar to the calculated forces
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Test the rocket itself
• Build a scale model and fly to test the overall design
• Build a full scale model and fly to test the overall design
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Educational Outreach
• Girl scout workshop and launch outing in
October/November 2010
• Giving presentation to AIAA professional society
council meeting with all AIAA members in Orange
County invited in January 2011
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Newspaper articles
• Article in Sunny Hills High School (Fullerton,
CA) school paper
• Feature article being researched/written for
Orange County Register
• Local paper in Orange, CA – The Foothills
Sentry – will carry article
Presentations at Orange County 4H clubs
Contacted Discovery Science Center for youth
booth – they are featuring space exploration
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Website
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http://aiaaocrocketry.org/
Contains links to all manuals,
MSDS, and design reviews
Includes a calendar for important
upcoming evens as well as
previous meeting dates
Includes photos taken during
• SLI Team meetings
• Girl Scout Events
• ROCtober Fest
Used as a tool for kids to get information about our SLI team
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Budget - Expenditures
Budget summary – full details in PDR
Description
Unit Costs
Totals
Scale Vehicle and engines
2.6" Black Brant, engines, parachutes etc.
250
Contingent second rocket just in case first is destroyed
250
$500.00
Vehicle
4" Black Brant, parachutes, adhesive etc.
522
Contingent second rocket just in case first is destroyed
522
$1,044.00
Recovery
Flight Computers, wiring, batteries, parachutes etc.
698
Contingent second recovery just in case first is destroyed
698
$1,396.00
Payload
Computer, hard drive, accelerometer, batteries etc.
425
GPS System
Beeline GPS (70cm), TNC, Garmin, Wiring etc
545
Contingent GPS Rocket Transmitter (Beeline)
300
$845.00
Motors (full sized vehicle)
$562.00
5 Grain 54 mm Cesaroni casing, delay drill, 3 motors
Educational Outreach
Travel, printing, rocket kits etc.
275
$275.00
Travel (16 team members 4 days)
Airline, food, hotel, car rental
Total Estimated Project Expenses
$15,920.00
$20,542.00
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Budget - Income
• NASA Grant for SLI teams
• Fundraising letters to Southern California
Aerospace
• Boeing
• Raytheon
• Northrop Grumman
• Lockheed Martin
• AIAA Orange County Section
• Garage sales
• Car Wash
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Timeline
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Milestone Summary
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October 12, 2010: Proposal
November 6, 2010: Girl Scout Launch
November 19, 2010: PDR submitted
December 18, 2010: Start building Scale Model
January 8, 2011: Launch Scale Model
January 11, 2011: Presentation to AIAA OC Section
January 19-31, 2011: Finalize Full Scale Design
January 24, 2011: CDR due
February 9-28, 2011: Build Full Scale Rocket
March 12, 2011: Launch Full Scale Rocket
March 21, 2011: FRR Due
March 28-31, 2011: Web-Ex FRR Presentations
April 13: Travel to Huntsville
April 15: Launch Day
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Challenges
• Inconsistency of data
• Impulse values are different between Rocksim, Thrustcurve.org
and Cesaroni for the same engine
• Calculations (formula) vary between tools
• On-line calculators give different values than Rocksim
• Different versions of Rocksim give different values
• Different wind speeds at different levels
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THANK YOU
for letting us be
a part of SLI
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QUESTIONS
&
COMMENTS
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