A place to write down various ideas and flesh out the rocket. All ideas are up in the air (ha!).

Hardware

Features

• Solid Rocket Motor
• Stages
• TVC
• Actuator controlled fins
• Recovery method
  • TVC Landings
  • Parachutes
  • RC car with net
• Sensors
  • Altimeter
  • GPS
• Flight computer
  • Microcontroller (something small and very cheap)
    • Ardiuno of some flavor perhaps?

Software

Features

• Flight s/w can be dropped into sim or onto hardware with little to no configuration changes
• Hard Real Time events scheduling

Flight Profile

Options

• Single stage, parachute recovery
• Two-stage, parachute recovery
  • IF Parachute recovery, could look into catching the parachutes then
• ...

Notes

• Need to make goals clear and concrete. I think defining the goal flight profile will help us come up with requirements/a design, but a cool(/attainable) flight profile doesn't have to be the main goal.

Ideas for Objectives

• Unconventional flight profile
• Very conventional flight profile done well
• Maximize altitude over wet mass ratio
• Launching and hard-landing on a target
• Reuseability (Easy to swap/refill/etc and launch again)
  • This is a must for easy testing. Ideally, as easy as swapping the motor in a "Plug n' Play" way (for a solid motor)
• Multistage, 1 for up-go, 1 for landing?