Scratch one thing off my list (I hope)

[franznietzsche]

For those of you who don't chat with me outside PF, I'm interminably buried in mountains of work. I tend to bite off more than I can chew, mainly because I like being busy. Only problem with that is that I'm definitely in the running for least productive human being alive (ok, so I'm exaggerating, but you get the point). I tend to work productively in bursts, with long periods of being scatterbrained and easily distracted. My two major, non-class related, projects this year are our hybrid liquid-solid fuel rocket and my radiation hydro-dynamics simulation. The rocket project is:

Our goal: By May, 2006, we will build a rocket that we can launch from the ground and safely recover. Our rocket will have these features (not in any particular order):

M+ class hybrid motor
• Meet or exceed R.A.T.T. Works M900 motor
• Remote launch capability
• In flight shut down capability
• All custom parts made in-house
Controlled fly–back
• Land on a pre-determined target
• Micro-processor controlled
• Mixture of autonomous and piloted control
Extreme altitude & recovery
• Reach at least 20,000 feet AGL

In addition to the rocket, we also plan to have more launches for individual project rockets and we will have at least one desert launch at either Black Rock, NV or Mojave, CA.

You can read more at http://www.calpolyspacesystems.com/, click on CPSS projects to see all the details.

Anyway, I'm on the propulsions team working on the injector design specifically, and the thing is finally DONE. After a half dozen setbacks, we finally have a finalized design ready for machining and testing (minus some minor details on exact dimensions).

Just thought I'd share. I'm rather excited to have that one scratched off my very long list of things not yet finished. Now if only i could get the RHD code done

 

[Mk]

Yay! Good for you!

 

[honestrosewater]

Wow, you guys have some funny names. Nash Clemens. I hope that's not you. (Joking, they're lovely names, really.)

Woo! Yeah! Whatever gets your motor propulsing.

 

[Mk]

Propulsing?

 

[hypatia]

OMG I love to launch rockets!

Way to go...another one bites the dust!
{from your list...not your rocket!}