Affordable rocket design with interchangeable rocket engine mount for different mission objectives, equipped with payload bay for amateur CubeSats and CanSats

Abstract

Amateur rocketry has been offering opportunities to students and enthusiasts to earn a spot in the field of space engineering and project development. Our goal is not only to design a reliable and affordable rocket, but to provide a platform to launch additional experiments, such as amateur CanSats and CubeSats, with different flight profiles. We will achieve this milestone by designing and developing an adaptable engine mount according to the given solid propellant motor characteristics. Our purpose is to attain the greatest results during the flight. Furthermore, different materials are going to be employed. It will be possible to modify the rocket fins design seeking to optimise the stability and the apogee. The principal advantage of our design is that changing the engine mount on the same rocket will be possible, making it reusable. This will, also, reduce the cost per launch. Moreover, the rocket will be able to achieve periods of hypergravity and microgravity, which can be attractive conditions to study how systems work under their effects. Initially, it will provide 3L of payload volume with anti-vibration walls to protect the electronic devices and it will incorporate batteries and sensors to support the experiments onboard. It will feature telemetry modules to transmit data such as pressure, acceleration, orientation or speed. In addition, we will add protected SD card modules and EEPROM devices to save the flight and experimental data in case of radio interference or recovery system failure and crash of the vehicle. Video Cameras will also be included. In conclusion, this project aims to provide an economical rocket to launch amateur experiments with several alluring fight profiles and motivate people to experiment and launch their ideas in the aerospace engineering field