Here is what we have planned for our rocket so far:
We want to make our rocket go as high as it will go, but it still needs to stay straight up.
The body we will make on our own using wood glue and paper. That way we can customize it to our specifications and it will work that way we want it to.
5:1 thrust to mass ratio is the lowest we can go. 6 or 7 would be even better.
The maximum that our rocket can weigh is 214.6 grams. Considering that the motor will weigh about 80 grams that give us about 130 grams for the rest of the rocket to weigh.
We are thinking that we want to make it somewhere around 15 inches, but that is all depending on what the mass of the body tube. We will want to make it no more than 40 grams or so.
We both wanted to make a pointy nose cone. We want to use the expanding foam and then cut it down and shape it to fit our rocket.
Genevie wanted our fin design to have the shape be a clipped parallelogram. I wanted four fins on our rocket and to use balsa wood to make our fins.
If we do an engineering challenge we want to do a package deployment. We would have to have an extra parachute and when the rocket went up, a small package would come out and float down on it's own. Separate from the rest of its rocket.
We want to make our rocket go as high as it will go, but it still needs to stay straight up.
The body we will make on our own using wood glue and paper. That way we can customize it to our specifications and it will work that way we want it to.
5:1 thrust to mass ratio is the lowest we can go. 6 or 7 would be even better.
The maximum that our rocket can weigh is 214.6 grams. Considering that the motor will weigh about 80 grams that give us about 130 grams for the rest of the rocket to weigh.
We are thinking that we want to make it somewhere around 15 inches, but that is all depending on what the mass of the body tube. We will want to make it no more than 40 grams or so.
We both wanted to make a pointy nose cone. We want to use the expanding foam and then cut it down and shape it to fit our rocket.
Genevie wanted our fin design to have the shape be a clipped parallelogram. I wanted four fins on our rocket and to use balsa wood to make our fins.
If we do an engineering challenge we want to do a package deployment. We would have to have an extra parachute and when the rocket went up, a small package would come out and float down on it's own. Separate from the rest of its rocket.