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)

Link to SDSU Rocket project

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

Syllabus for MAE 155A

Syllabus for MAE 155B

MAE 155B

Homework 1

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)

Estes Flight 1 (4/10)

HW1 Sol (H&P)

HW1 Sol (Euler)

Please read the following information before Tuesday (4/22)

9V Battery Hack

How to Solder

How to Read a Schematic

Microcontroller Manual

Potentiometer Manual

Switch Manual

Circuit (top) jpeg

Circuit (bottom) jpeg

Circuit Diagram jpeg

Timed Launch Results (please email me if there are any errors in the results or the groups, and any pictures/video of successful launches ~Greg)

Launch Updates (4/29)

Launch Updates (5/6)

Midterm 1 Solution

Cassini Pressurization System

VAPAK paper:

Piston Pump

Compass Module

Thermocouple Module

Pressure Sensor

Amplifier Chip

Rdas Manual

Static Fire Results

Hypertek Results

Amplifier

Amplifier Circuit Diagram

Launch Updates (5/21)

Project Presentation Guidelines

Launch Updates (6/06)

MAE 155A

Homework 1b solutions (Greg Mathy) pdf

Homework 1b calculations(mcd file) (download player below)

Homework 2b problems

Homework 2b solutions (Greg Mathy) pdf

Homework 2b calculations (mcd file)

Homework 3b problems

Homework 3b solutions (Greg Mathy) pdf

Midterm 1 Solutions Astro pdf

Midterm 1 Solutions Astro mcd

Midterm 2 Solutions Astro doc

Midterm 2 Solutions Astro mcd

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 1 Solutions Aero

Homework 1 Solutions Aero

Homework 2 Solutions Aero

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

Launch Vehicle Design link

Other stuff:

Mars Sample Return 1

Mars Sample Return 2

NLV page

NLV Paper

Pistonless pump paper #1 Pump Design

Pistonless pump paper #2 Trade Study

Pistonless pump paper #3 CEV

Mathcad equations (Shift click to download)

Isentropic flow relations and more rocket equations

Rocket Theoretical performance

Rocket failure

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

www.islandone.org/Propulsion/

Basics of Space Flight

California Space Authority

Space Shuttle News Reference Manual

Stennis Rocket Test Photographs

Big Dumb Boosters

XRV - Rocket Chronicles - Rocket Links

NASA rocket eductional info

JAXA Homepage(NASA in Japan)

Wickman Spacecraft & Propulsion Company

Space Database (info on all kinds of Rockets

Richard Nakka's Experimental Rocketry Web Site

Amateur Rocket List

Hobby Space

The Rocket Company chapter 1

New rocket Companies:

SpaceDev

Garvey Spacecraft Corporation

XCOR Aerospace: Commercial Liquid Rocket Engines and Vehicles

Pyramid Space

SpaceX

Blue Origin

Masten Space

Space Tourism:

X PRIZE Foundation // New Race to Space

Scaled Composites/SpaceShipOne

RocketPlane

Virgin Galactic

TGV rockets

Class Web pages

Rocket Performance UMD lecture notes

Propulsion Home Page MIT (with lecture notes)

Rockets, Spring 2000 (with lecture notes)

Georgia Tech

University of Maryland

Space news

Space News Florida Today

Space Frontier Foundation Home Page

SPACE.com: space news, games, entertainment and science fiction

SpaceDaily.Com - Your Portal To Space

SPACENEWS

Universe Today - Home Page: Space Exploration News from Around the Internet

Wacky ideas

THE ROCKETMAN rocket belt

Brian Walker, Rocket Guy

Rocket Powered Bike

Peroxide Rockets

Space Shuttle at max q (maximum aerodynamic loading)