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The Eagle Space Flight Team was created with the goal of becoming the first undergraduate team to design, build, and launch a rocket capable of suborbital spaceflight. To accomplish this task, the team is broken down into multiple sub teams, each focused on a specific aspect of research. Aerodynamics sub-team’s concentration is on the flight profile of the rocket. Research goals for the team include finding the center of pressure and the coefficient of drag of the rocket. Trajectory models are being created in MATLAB and being updated to include wind forces and recovery events, such as the deployment of the drogue and main parachutes. Research into thermal profiles is also being accomplished using ANSYS. Aero team has so far designed both a 3” and 4” diameter rocket and over the next three years will have major contributions to the design of the space capable rocket. Poster Presentation and Demonstration

This project’s objective is to provide an alternative launch system that could potentially replace the high-altitude balloon launch system (typically carrying scientific payloads) used in the Experimental Space Systems class at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona. Senior capstone design group, Phoenix Aerospace Launch Systems (PALS), will provide a high-powered rocket as the alternative launch system called Legacy. PALS has conducted research on similar projects and weighed the risks and benefits that involve a high-powered rocket. Initial research was conducted in the fall 2015 semester, calculations and analysis was done to finalize a design for Legacy. Legacy is in currently under the fabrication process and will be completed by March 16th, 2016. Once Legacy has completely fabricated, tests will be conducted in order to validate that all subsystems and system will satisfy mission requirements. Poster Presentation IGNITE GRANT AWARD