The manufacture of the combustion chamber for White Dwarf has been finished this week. The cooling channels shown were created on a CNC mill in the Whittle Lab, Cambridge University Engineering Department. Below are photos of the original tube, and another of the CNCing taking place. The final part will be used in White Dwarf, …
On Monday, two lead engineers from Reaction Engines, one of CUSFs sponsors, came to CUED to talk to CUSF members and other students. They discussed the SABRE Demo engine, Applied Technologies and other spin-outs as well as showing us some hardware in-person! We would like to thank Piotr and Felix for giving up their time …
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Recovering Aquila from 150km altitude is not a simple problem to solve. Our dedicated recovery division has worked hard this year to design a hypersonic recovery system for Griffin 1, named Daedalus, after the engineer that created Icarus’ wings. Hemisflo Drogue The most complex element of the system is the hemisflo drogue. Our selection arose …
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CamPyRoS (Cambridge Python Rocketry Simulator) is CUSF’s fully featured 6 degrees of freedom rocket trajectory simulator. This state of the art software has been worked on extensively by Jago Strong-Wright and Daniel Gibbons. and its features include: 6 degrees of freedom (3 translational, 3 rotational) Monte Carlo stochastic analysis Aerodynamic heating model Use of live …
Below are tests we carried out (prior to the Coronavirus lockdown) of the subsystems that will be needed for our next rocket rocket project, the Martlet 4. Powered by our Pulsar hybrid rocket motor, Martlet 4 will be our largest rocket yet while its hybrid propsulsion provides some unique challenges. Fill line disconnect system: ‘The …
Yesterday’s successful HAB launch to send three teddy bears into space for a local primary school. Thanks to BOC online for suppliying the helium for the launch!
Martlet 2 is powered by an O-8000 Pro150 Cesaroni motor. This is the largest certified motor available and, over the course of its 5.12s burn time, produces an average thrust of 8000N. We purchased the motor last weekend from Animal Motor Works and will be meeting it for the first time at BALLS. In other …
Current radios on High Altitude Ballons (HABs) are laughably slow, on the order of 50 bits/s. While this can suffice for transmitting simple data strings such as GPS co-ordinates, it’s useless for anything else. There have been several attempts at in-flight image transmission for amateur HABs with existing radios, though these took around 6 minutes …
Collected two part which were water jetted by the workshop. The three pieces fit inside each other to hopefully make a gimbal. I made the central part at home using a lathe, shaper and drill. The blue dye is for marking.
Ordered from shapeways. Designed to hold 3 sub micro servos.
