Rebel Rockets-Day 16

Today began as any other. We met up and began work on the new fuselage. We then tested out the rocket to make sure that it would go in the air and not destroy itself. We had to first create a cone that would fit in the rocket. The cones that we had were to small. We built paper around the cones in order to make them fit in more perfectly. After we found that the rocket would launch fine, we decided to launch a new rocket with the accelerometer. After this, we went home.

-Ben W.

We decided to test another rocket today, just to make sure that the accelerometer would be safe, we can't risk that breaking or else we will be at a stand still. The test went pretty well and now we're relatively confident in our rockets. Because this was successful we went to try the accelerometer. We think it worked, but we have to see if it actually recorded everything and if the graph will work. The problem is that the rocket fuselage is still pretty weak, so we might try and use thicket paper, and hopefully that will work well.

-Mike B.

We had to make a new rocket today. We made one of the new ones, with the larger diameter for the accelerometer. We tested the accelerometer today also. The launch wasn't as impressive as the previous ones because of the additional weight of the new rockets. We need to test and see if the accelerometer actually recorded data also. The cone on this rocket didn't fit so we had to modify it to fit in. We hope the accelerometer actually works.

-Christian

We started off today with another dry run just to be completely certain of the ability of our rocket to safely return the accelerometer. Because this went fairly well we decided later in the day to do a test with the accelerometer in the rocket. The test went well, and we believe that we will have some good data from this launch, but we will have to see the graphs from the accelerometer before we make any conclusions.

-Mike S.

We made another rocket today and decided one more test was necessary before we used the accelerometer. The launch went very well and we believed that it would be safe to put the accelerometer in the rocket. We decided to do another launch later in the day to test the accelerometer. The test went well and is our first step on testing the variables. We believe we will get some good data from the accelerometer and will be able to move on to the final step in our project.

-Scott