Eagle Space Flight Team Spaceshot-1
Faculty Mentor Name
Daniel White, Luis Felipe Zapata Rivera, Lestari Wahyu, Kathy Wood, Neil Sullivan, Andy Gerrick
Format Preference
Poster
Abstract
The first mission, termed SpaceShot-1, is to successfully fly a student-designed-and-built launch vehicle, with a payload, past the Kármán line. The Kármán line, marked at an altitude of 100 kilometers above Earth’s mean equator, represents the internationally recognized boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space, denoting it as the benchmark an object must pass in order to be commonly accepted as having reached space. The members of the ESFT should be undergraduate students who are enrolled at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) and who are assisted and advised by professors and industry professionals to ensure safety and mission success. ESFT will design and build an 8-inch diameter solid propellant motor that is roughly 9 feet in length, a 6-inch diameter aeroshell, nose cone, fins, a recover system consisting of a marmon clamp release for parachute and drogue chute, and avionics system capable of tracking the rocket to the Karman Line. The long-term goal of the ESFT is to provide ERAU with a suborbital launch vehicle on which experimental and research payloads can be reliably flown at low cost compared to current flight opportunities.
Eagle Space Flight Team Spaceshot-1
The first mission, termed SpaceShot-1, is to successfully fly a student-designed-and-built launch vehicle, with a payload, past the Kármán line. The Kármán line, marked at an altitude of 100 kilometers above Earth’s mean equator, represents the internationally recognized boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space, denoting it as the benchmark an object must pass in order to be commonly accepted as having reached space. The members of the ESFT should be undergraduate students who are enrolled at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) and who are assisted and advised by professors and industry professionals to ensure safety and mission success. ESFT will design and build an 8-inch diameter solid propellant motor that is roughly 9 feet in length, a 6-inch diameter aeroshell, nose cone, fins, a recover system consisting of a marmon clamp release for parachute and drogue chute, and avionics system capable of tracking the rocket to the Karman Line. The long-term goal of the ESFT is to provide ERAU with a suborbital launch vehicle on which experimental and research payloads can be reliably flown at low cost compared to current flight opportunities.