MAE 155A COURSE SYLLABUS
Aerospace Engineering Design
Global Hawk High-Altitude Long-Endurance (HALE) Aircraft
Rocket test Videos:
Closeup 3.4 meg mpg (Doug Gaylord)
From the blockhouse 1.3 meg mpg (Eric Besnard)
The above shows a large amatuer rocket powered by liquid oxygen and jet fuel.
Instructors: Steve Harrington (Astronautics) Email: sharring@flometrics.com
TA: Greg Mathy gmathy@ucsd.edu OH: Mon/Wed 12-1pm EBU2 312, or by appointment
MAE 155B
Hill and Peterson on rocket performance
Quest A6 Thrust vs Time (this is what we are using)
Estes Thrust vs Time (in case you crash your rocket and buy one of these)
Please
read the following information before Tuesday (4/22)
Project Presentation Guidelines
MAE 155A
Homework 1b solutions (Greg Mathy) pdf
Homework 1b calculations(mcd file) (download player below)
Homework 2b solutions (Greg Mathy) pdf
Homework 2b calculations (mcd file)
Homework 3b solutions (Greg Mathy) pdf
Astro Homework 5; in the book (5.2 5.5 6.6 6.9 7.1 7.5) due thur 3/13
Homework 5 Solutions Astro mcd
Homework 5 Solutions Astro pdf
Homework 3,4 Midterm 1 Solutions Aero pdf
Launch Vehicle and Spacecraft history
Joe Carroll's Orbital Mechanics and Tether Guidebook
Orbital Mechanics Lecture:Newton Gravity Swings and Sails
Win $50,000 by tagging an asteroid
Spacecraft design sample problem
Other stuff:
Pistonless pump paper #1 Pump Design
Pistonless pump paper #2 Trade Study
Mathcad equations (Shift click to download)
Isentropic flow relations and more rocket equations
Rocket Theoretical performance
Math Software Player (no saving ,change wxw to exe to use)
References:
1. P. G. Hill & C. R. Peterson: "Mechanics and Thermodynamics
of Propulsion",
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1965/1991.
2. M. J. Zucrow, "Aircraft and Missile Propulsion", John Wiley
& Sons, Inc., 1968.
3. G. C. Sutton, "Rocket Propulsion Elements", John Wiley &
Sons, 1986/1992/2000.
4. M. Barrere, et al., "Rocket Propulsion", Elsevier Publishing Co., 1960.
5. Martin J. L. Turner, Rocket and Spacecraft Propulsion: Principles, Practice and New Developments Springer Praxis 2000
6. Oates, Gordon C.: Aerothermodynamics of Gas Turbine and Rocket Propulsion 1986
7. Dieter K. Huzel, David H. Huang, Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engines (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Vol 147) AIAA 1992
More Rocket links:
Thermodynamic properties from NASA
Mark Wade's Encyclopedia Astronautica
Space Shuttle News Reference Manual
Stennis Rocket
Test Photographs
XRV - Rocket Chronicles - Rocket
Links
Wickman Spacecraft &
Propulsion Company
Space Database (info on all kinds of Rockets
Richard Nakka's Experimental Rocketry Web Site
New rocket Companies:
XCOR Aerospace: Commercial Liquid Rocket Engines and Vehicles
Space Tourism:
X PRIZE Foundation // New Race to Space
Scaled Composites/SpaceShipOne
Class Web pages
Rocket
Performance UMD lecture notes
Propulsion
Home Page MIT (with lecture notes)
Rockets, Spring 2000 (with lecture notes)
Space news
Space
Frontier Foundation Home Page
SPACE.com: space news, games, entertainment
and science fiction
SpaceDaily.Com - Your Portal To
Space
Universe Today - Home Page: Space Exploration News from Around the Internet
Wacky ideas
Space Shuttle at max q (maximum aerodynamic loading)