The Development of Rocketry Capability in New Zealand—World Record Rocket and First of Its Kind Rocketry Course

About this item

Title

The Development of Rocketry Capability in New Zealand—World Record Rocket and First of Its Kind Rocketry Course

Content partner

Directory of Open Access Journals

Collection

Directory of Open Access Journals

Description

The University of Canterbury has developed a rocket research group, UC Rocketry, which recently broke the world altitude record for an I-class motor (impulse of 320–640 Ns) and has run a rocketry course for the first time in New Zealand. This paper discusses the development and results of the world record rocket “Milly” and details all the fundamental elements of the rocketry final year engineering course, including the manufacturing processes, wind tunnel testing, avionics, control and the f...

Read more

Format

Research paper

Date created

2015-02-01

Creator

George Buchanan / David Wright / Christopher Hann / Hoani Bryson / Malcolm Snowdon / Avinash Rao / Adam Slee / Hans Philipp Sültrop / Bastian Jochle-Rings / Zane Barker / Abigail McKinstry / Claude Meffan / George Xian / Ryan Mitchell / XiaoQi Chen

Contributing partner

Aerospace (Basel)

URL

http://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/2/1/91

Related subjects

rocketry / solid propellant rocket / canard actuation / wind tunnel / PD control / machining / avionics / Motor vehicles / Aeronautics / Astronautics

What is the copyright status of this item?

Share, Modify, Use commercially

See below for specifics about how you may use this item.

More Information

Directory of Open Access Journals has this to say about the rights status of this item:

CC BY (All metadata for this Directory of Open Access Journals record is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC BY-SA).)

You can learn more about the rights status of this item at: http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess

What can I do with this item?

You must always check with Directory of Open Access Journals to confirm the specific terms of use, but this is our understanding:

Non-infringing use

NZ Copyright law does not prevent every use of a copyright work. You should consider what you can and cannot do with a copyright work.

Share it

This item is suitable for copying and sharing with others, without further permission.

Modify it

This item is suitable for modifying, remixing and building upon, without further permission.

Use it commercially

This item is suitable for commercial use, without further permission.