Tripoli Level 1 Rocket
This was the initial design of the rocket complete with simulated apogee and maximum velocity.
This was the initial design of the rocket complete with simulated apogee and maximum velocity.
Tripoli High-Powered Rocket
2019
This was a rocket designed to be equipped with a high-powered motor to provide me with a Tripoli Rocketry Level 1 certification. To receive certification, I had to successfully design, build, launch, and recover the rocket.
The motor in use supplied 225.8 Newton-seconds of specific impulse with a maximum thrust of 159.7 Newtons. The rocket was recovered successfully after walking through a nearby soybean field. The rocket was designed in OpenRocket, an open-sourced rocket design program that simulates the aerodynamics experienced by a given rocket design. This program assisted in determining crucial factors such as stability, locations of center of gravity and center of pressure, maximum velocity, and projected apogee.