10K COTS Review Session 2021

Monash

• Telemetry in nosecone

• Airbrakes

• Many points for analysis. Used in-house programmed rigid body simulator SATURN.

• Initial design in OpenRocket. SATURN has substantially lower error, as tested by known data from previous flights. OpenRocket considers slender-finned vehicles using the Barrowman Equations

Berkeley

• Small scale structural testing on CF and glass tubes

VIT

• Fin flutter analyzed using MATLAB

• CF fins cut with waterjet

Takeaways for RIT Launch Initiative

• Do more simulation and analysis. Use ANSYS. Beg ANSYS distributor if RIT doesn't have a license.

• Do more physical structural testing.

• Insert decision matrix into report.

• Do more documentation - all team reports were substantially more detailed.

To Do

• Look at the team doing CF canards for antennae.

• Look at Monash's (possibly also Berkeley's) technical report.