Rocket Building 101

Intro

This assignment was to build a model rocket and create fins and a nose cone on onshape. I am making this because my teacher told me to. I hoped to learn more about how rockets fly.

Nose Cone / Fins

I chose these designs because they looked the best in my mind. I did some research on the nose cone to see which would be the most aerodynamic and my design is pretty close to the one I saw online.

Building Phase

Center of gravity / Center of pressure

Flight

Conclusion

making my rocket was pretty easy. something that went wrong was that one of my fins broke after my first flight so I would do a better job gluing them next time. Something I would do differently is not use hot glue, hot glue is heavy and gives more drag.

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