Rebel Rockets-Day 15

We finished the rocket today, it was really flimsy so we decided to launch it without the accelerometer to make sure it was safe enough. After the launch we decided it was safe enough, but some of the wings had fallen off so we decided to fix up the fuselage and make sure we attached the wings better to make sure that nothing will happen to our accelerometer. It was a successful launch overall I guess, but we need to make sure the accelerometer works.

-Mike B.

Today we finished another rocket and we decided to launch it. However we wanted to launch it without the accelerometer so that we could see if the impact would be too strong when it landed. Since we aren't putting in a recovery system anymore, we had to see if it would be safe for the accelerometer. It seemed to be safe enough, although some fins fell off. We hope that we can get the accelerometer to work also.

-Christian

Today we finished to construction of one of our new rockets and decided to test it to make sure that the accelerometer would be secure inside. The test indicated that it would provided that we used sufficient padding, for which we will be using fiberglass insulation.

-Mike S.

We finished up making our new rocket and and went to test it without the accelerometer inside to see if this rocket design worked properly as to not damage our accelerometer. Also, we decided not to add a parachute this time. We discovered that all we needed to do was to add some padding to the accelerometer as the impact of the rocket was not too strong. Some of the fins fell off but this can be fixed easily if we apply the glue better.

-Kushal

We first finished the larger rocket today and went off for a test launch. We wanted to try a launch without the accelerometer to test if the new design worked. We could not risk losing that piece of equipment. We launched the rocket without a parachute since it did not go very high and the ejection won't work correctly with the accelerometer. We have decided on using padding inside the rocket to keep the accelerometer safe. We also made the piecewise function for the graph of the thrust for the A engines and will use that for the predictions.

-Scott

We launched the rocket today. We did not put the accelerometer in the rocket, we were just testing to see if the accelerometer would be able to survive the fall. The rocket went up and came down relatively softly. 2 of the wings fell off of the rocket, but that would easily be fixed. We decided that the rocket would be safe enough and began the repairs on the rocket.

-Ben W.