Subsonic Glideback Rocket Demonstrator Flight Testing
- Author:
- DeTurris, Dianne J.
- Published:
- October 2001.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic document
- Additional Creators:
- Barthel, Paul E., Macy, Daniel J., Talay, Theodore A., Foster, Trevor J., and Droney, Christopher K.
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- For the past two years, Cal Poly's rocket program has been aggressively exploring the concept of remotely controlled, fixed wing, flyable rocket boosters. This program, embodied by a group of student engineers known as Cal Poly Space Systems, has successfully demonstrated the idea of a rocket design that incorporates a vertical launch pattern followed by a horizontal return flight and landing. Though the design is meant for supersonic flight, CPSS demonstrators are deployed at a subsonic speed. Many steps have been taken by the club that allowed the evolution of the StarBooster prototype to reach its current size: a ten-foot tall, one-foot diameter, composite material rocket. Progress is currently being made that involves multiple boosters along with a second stage, third rocket.
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- Collection:
- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
- Note:
- Document ID: 20020023126.
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