For this year's capstone project, our group have decided to join the American Institution of Aeronautics and Astronautics to design and build a brand new rocket.The mission for Space City Rocketry 2021-2022 is to compete and place in the top 10 teams in the 2022 SpacePort America Cup competition under the 30k COTS rocket category. Our team goal is to build and design a modular motor mount while working with the structures sub-team who will focus on producing the fins.
Last year's rocket had a major problem that our team is focused on solving this year, involving the damaged fins that were attached to the Motor Mount and this is why our team have decided to design and improve a new Modular Motor Mount (MMM) . The role of a modular motor mount is to hold strongly the engine rocket and keeping it centerline inside the model. It is also the important part in the rocket that holds the fins and the circular rings. The reason behind having a modular motor mount is that the team will be able to have fins that are completely swappable for each flight of the rocket and this will help the team save time, earn point during the competition and enable component damage in recovery.
The assembly of last year's motor mount had an amount of 24 bolts and our main goal is to decrease the usage of the parts and use a lighter material in the new modular motor mount while improving the design and the performance. A major challenge that our team will be facing is deciding if our group will include or exclude designing the fins that will be used in Zenith. Traditionally fins are designed near the end of the rocket development, this would pose problems since our group would have to pause working on the design throughout the semester. After speaking with the Structures subteam, the fin designs will be done by them, if issues arise then they will contact us for help with the designs.
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