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10K COTS vs 30K COTS vs 10K SRAD
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| 10K COTS | We've done it before so we know what to do as a baseline so we could better ourselves. It would be far cheaper. It would give us a chance to focus on other aspects of the rocket such as simulations and analysis or better manufacturing techniques. We aren't currently winning at the competition so it may be better to perfect a 10k then to move on and be a mediocre 30k.
| It would be just another 10k rocket. We've done it before so it's not expanding and making a higher goal it's instead staying at the same level. People might lose interest. It wouldn't be as intense of a challenge. A lot more competition in this class as it's the most "basic" .
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| 30K COTS | It would test our skills in manufacturing because a higher apogee leads to less room for defects. A higher apogee would be interesting and a good talking point. People have already agreed on doing 30k.
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| 10K SRAD | Making our own motor would make the rocket more unique and it would bring in a different skill set to the team. There is less competition in SRAD than COTS. We've done it before so we know what to do as a baseline so we could better ourselves. It would be far cheaper. It would give us a chance to focus on other aspects of the rocket such as simulations and analysis or better manufacturing techniques. We aren't currently winning at the competition for 10k COTS so it may be better to perfect a 10k then to move on and be a mediocre 30k. Less competition due to being SRAD
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| We've never done SRAD motors so that would be a pretty huge unknown as a team. Only one member is currently experienced in solids. It's more work for the team. Getting people's interest and not burning them out.
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Rocket Composition:
Full Fiberglass vs Full Carbon Fiber vs Hybrid Mix
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| Full Fiberglass | - Radio frequency can get through!
- We count use COTS tubes which would save on manpower.
| - Buying COTS tubes would be fairly basic, but learning winding fiberglass may be a hassle to do similar to how long it took for us to learn carbon fiber.
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| Full Carbon Fiber | It'd be made of uniform composition keeping to the theme of the name. We can manage carbon fiber manufacturing so it wouldn't be learning a new process from scratch. We still have the materials for doing carbon fiber.
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| - We could allow for radio frequency to go through as well as still having the custom carbon fiber aspect.
- It would allow us to save money and use our previous resources.
| - Not having just one of the same type of material potentially creating fit issues in manufactured parts.
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Payload Deployment Type :
Deployable vs Non Deployable
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Payload Ideas:
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Payload Ideas:
Payload Descriptions
Drone: This would be a remote controlled drone that has to be deployed under 400 feet due to regulations that could be used to track the rocket, release some sort of visual signal to find the rocket and it would be a fairly complex project which would look good for the payload challenge.
Rover: This would be a rover which can be deployed from the rocket and landed separate it will be remote controlled and can be used for tracking and visuals to find it / the rocket, it is again a fairly complex project hich the judges for the payload challenge will enjoy.
"Black Box of Sensors":
Deployable Mass:
Reaction Wheel:
Actual Science Payload:
Adding GPS Tracking to Payload:
Adding Smoke System to Payload:
Drone vs Rover vs "Black Box of Sensors" vs Deployable Mass vs Reaction Wheel vs Actual Science Payload vs Adding GPS Tracking to Payload vs Adding Smoke System to Payload
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