How to grow a tech-based student rocket competition
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How to grow a tech-based student rocket competition
By Peter Plumley2007 Northeast Regional Space Grant Meetings September 7th 2007
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Growth of design, build and compete events
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Exponential growth in teams participating in The CNY Rocket Team Challenge.
Linear growth in number of teams participating in Bridge Build’em and Bust’em.
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CNY Rocket Team Challenge• Five years running
– October Skies (1st year college freshman)
– CNY Rocket Team Challenge• Spring HS program 2003
• Expanded to 4th – 12th in 2006
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Current Program Boundaries• Organized by MOST, SU (LCSmith) and TACNY• Major sponsorship by LMCO & NASA Space Grant• Divisions
– Middle school/Junior High 4th - 8th – High school 9th – 12th
• Launch Sequence - First Saturday in June– flies with altimeter, eggstronaut, on-board audio and
video camera transmitter• Use rocket simulation software to assist in design and to
simulate performance and stability• Judging
– Aesthetics, Presentation, Successful flight, payload recovery, and accuracy in estimating apogee
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Rocket Stability
• Center of Mass (CM or CG)– during flight, point about which an unstable rocket tumbles.– Three axes of rotation
• Center of Pressure (CP)– In the presence of flowing air, that point of equal stress
CM must be forward of the CPor rocket will be unstable!
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YawPitch
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Recording AltimetersChittenango High School
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Demonstration High Power Rocket Project
• ¾ scale Nike Sounding Rocket
• Schools invited to design and build payloads
• 150 Pound lift, 8,000 ft apogee possible
• Live GPS tracking
with google earth.
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Predicted Apogee – 5500Recorded - 5416
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Rocket Video’s• Example of rocket project without LMCO
support.
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X-Treme X-plorers
• Rocket project with LMCO & NASA Space Grant support!
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Growth due to:
• Pizza
• T-Shirts
• High Tech & Large Scale