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.