Abstract

As part of the NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium (FSGC) Hybrid Rocket Competition, the FAMU-FSU Boosters team from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering are competing to build a rocket using a hybrid motor to achieve a maximum altitude of 2,000 feet. The Boosters team is participating in this competition to put all their learned academic engineering knowledge together and apply it to create a rocket to compete with other universities and community colleges. Other objectives of the competition include successful completion of a proposal submission, bi-weekly progress reports, a Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA) and an Engineering Notebook containing software simulations and collected data. To meet the objectives mentioned above, the team has set forth the following goals: design the rocket, build and test prototypes, and revise the design to create a final hybrid rocket to compete in the NASA FSGC Hybrid Rocket Competition. We aim to demonstrate that an innovative rocket design, that meets all competition requirements, is achievable by the FAMU-FSU Boosters and other College of Engineering senior design or student groups such as AIAA in the future by winning the competition.

Scope

Project Description

Develop a hybrid rocket capable of reaching an altitude of two thousand feet from launch.

Key Goals

1. Design, build and test a prototype of rocket.
2. Revise and finalize design for competition.
3. Achieve altitude of as close to two thousand feet as possible.
4. Win the NASA Hybrid Rocket Competition
5. Lay the groundwork for furutre aerospace competition for the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

Assumptions

Fuel sources/motor can be housed by FAMU-FSU COE.

Final design will be ready for competition.

FMEA and Hazard Analysis meets FSGC standards to gain access to competition.

Engineering Notebook for the competition is accepted to by FSGC to be allowed to compete.

Team