Nosecone Pitot payload

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Saint Andrews Orion Project II 2008 Student
Launch Initiative
Our Rocket will dominate the skies over
Huntsville while our Payload hunts for valuable
data to gather for our experiments.
Critical Design Review January 22, 2008
Robotic Deployment Recovery-Search Locate
Mother Ship Surface Sample Analysis-Pitot-Tube
Air Speed Factors
Video Study of Vehicle Stability Flight
Profile Pitot Readings for Velocity and Air Speed
Contact Lt. Leonard Johnson- Project Team
Leader PH [phone] E-mail
firebrick720_at_yahoo.com
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Rocket Flight Stability

• Rocket Flight Stability in Rocksim
• Thrust to weight motor selection in flight
  simulation

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Rail Exit Velocity

• Rocksim analysis, 6 Diam, 339oz loaded with
  K325, 10 rail
• Departure Vel44.5 ft/sec
• Minimum vel for Stable flight43ft/sec

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Parachute Sizes and Descent Rate

• Four parachutes
• 1 36 drogue chute
• 1 36 nose cone chute
• 1 36 capsule chute
• 1 70 main chute

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Test Plans and Procedures

• Robot Pilot practicing control via radio/video
  link
• Pitot tube 220MPH leafblower test
• BP ejection test
• CO2 ejection test
• Flight video trying to integrate into bay

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Scale Model Flight Test

• ½ Scale model flew successfully, with Video!
• Rocket graveyard Lake
• Payload pod ejected successfully

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Dual Deployment of Avionics Test

• Dual Avionics Payload
• Aft Black Powder
• Fore Carbon dioxide (for low temperature,
  noncorrosive gasses on robot.
• Dual, redundant altimeters for maximum flight
  safety.

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Ejection Charge Amount Test-CO2

• Forward Section Ejection
• Components of CO2-Rouse-Tech

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Ejection Charge Amount Test-BP

• Aft Section Black Powder Ejection Charge

• Body Dia. Squared X1
• X1 x Length of Open Body Dia. X2 then
• X2 x .006 grams of 4F Black Powder

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Nosecone Pitot payload

• Circuit integrated fully into nosecone
• ½ Plywood Flange epoxied screwed in nosecone
• 5 bolts hold bulkhead to flange
• Offset center for ease of reaching switches
• Hose from sensor to steel Pitot tube

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Nosecone Pitot circuit

• Same circuit as last year
• Tube to Hose to Sensor to Data Logger
• Data downloaded to Laptop PC, Excel
• Calibration via 220MPH blower

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Mission Commander

• Team Orion is honored to have a passenger!
• Gumbys safety is mission critical
• Will have backpack parachute for safety
• Seat-belted into unused area in nosecone

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Altimeter Payload Bay

• All fiberglass for maximum strength
• Double-thickness bulkplates
• 2 x ¼ threaded rods hold it together
• Two redundant altimeters (Missileworks and Ozark)

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Altimeter Bay Deployment

• Black powder for aft deployment, redundant,
  cartridges bolt to aft bulk plate
• CO2 for fore deployment, redundant, Rouse Tech.,
  bolted to fore bulk plate
• Pyrodex combustion forces piston pin into CO2
  cartridge

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SRV-1Robot- Scorpio Capsule

• First basic design of capsule
• First modified design of Capsule
• Final design of Capsule in airframe

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Payload Assembly

• All components of the capsule
• Robots G force frame support

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Payload Integration Feasibility

• Capsule in airframe
• Fitting the door

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Conclusion

• Team Orions project coming together!