Clone of Airframe Stability and Attitude Control

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Event poster; details follow in description
Poster Session
B
Poster Number
01.1
Project Author(s)
Savannah Krupa
Institution
Portland State University | OrION Internship - PSU
Project Description

Portland State Aerospace Society’s current rocket is Launch Vehicle 3.1 and is our most recent iteration of student-built rockets. OreSat 0.5 is PSAS’ second satellite and improves on features added in prior iterations of OreSat0. The LV3.1 rocket airframe needs to be calculated to be safe and effective during all stages of flight. We used the software OpenRocket to test all parameters that we needed to satisfy in order to do this. Further we needed to calculate the rocket stability, which is determined by the placement and distance between the center of gravity (CG), the center of pressure (CP), and the overall rocket mass with the loaded motor. Part of a successful rocket launch is the deployment of the parachutes. By implementing a device (plunger) to help facilitate the initial deployment we can ensure that the parachutes will safely and smoothly exit the nose cone, cascading into the following parachutes. The reaction wheels have been an ongoing project and post deployment we have pursued added tooling and fixtures to help its continued development. Each iteration we make is to improve the efficiency and accuracy in order to provide precise orientation and direction for OreSat 0.5. We executed these projects brainstorming designs, prototyping, measuring airframe component masses, and inputting values into OpenRocket. Through ongoing testing, we have verified the functionality of our subsystems.