Society for Advanced Rocket Propulsion

SARP

TEAM

Project Manager

Chief Engineer

Chief Engineer

Structures Lead

STRUCTURES

The Structures team makes everything that you can see on the rocket, including the airframes, nose cone, fins, and couplers that link everything together. Structures designs these systems for integration and runs structural analysis on all of the parts to ensure their integrity. Structures manufactures most components out of composites, such as carbon fiber, to reduce weight while retaining strength. Aluminum is machined to create high-strength couplers that hold the rocket together and provide mounting points for recovery and avionics equipment. Additionally, Structures runs flight simulations and calculates the optimal geometry and location of our fins to maximize stability, while minimizing drag and weight. Structures also includes the recovery system, which includes two parachutes, two pyrotechnic devices that deploy the parachutes, and the electronics that signal the pyrotechnics. If you want to learn about analysis or manufacturing with composites and metal materials, structures might be the team for you!

Propulsion Lead

PROPULSION

The team that makes the rocket go! We will be testing 2019 Liquid Bi-Prop Rocket: Pacific Impulse! This rocket produces (in theory...) 1200 lbf of thrust using saturated liquid nitrous and liquid ethanol. We'll also be researching and developing our next generation engines which have features such as regeneratively cooled channels, co-axial swirl injectors, and black powder ignition! Our endgoal is to provide a 4500 lbf engine for our next rocket, Stargazer. This team is for those interested in hands-on testing, intermittent manufacturing, and getting down and dirty with the textbooks. Projects here also heavily rely on CAD, structural analysis programs, and basic coding in Python (Babies First Code).

Avionics Lead

AVIONICS

The Avionics Team is responsible for all of the software and electronics on and off the rocket. Avionics offers unique electronics and programming integration tasks, with projects such as building remote systems for filling and igniting the rocket, developing sensor suites to collect flight data, extending our onboard communications network and in-flight telemetry systems, and building automated testbed infrastructure. Avionics' largest project this year is developing the bare-metal flight computer implementation to fly at FAR-OUT. Once the rocket is assembled and on the rail, it’s the Avionics' job to execute propellant fill, launch, safe landing, and recovery!

Recovery Lead

RECOVERY

The Recovery team develops parachute deployment, vehicle tracking, staging, and telemetry systems for the rocket necessary for ensuring safe rocket descent. This team is responsible for minimizing damage to the rocket during landing. Also designs experimental systems and controls for manual and autonomous guidance.

Payload Lead

Payload Lead

PAYLOAD

The Payload team designs, tests, and integrates a scientific or sensor package for the solid and liquid rockets. Maintains a test-bed rocket for pre-rocket testing of payload systems. This year’s team will be working with recovery on the Autonomous Recovery Experimental System (ARES), and developing and utilizing a mechanical gyroscope.

Manufacturing Lead

MANUFACTURING

Manufacturing facilitates the physical implementation of the parts designed by each subteam through a series of software and machine shop trainings. Some of the Manufacturing team’s responsibilities include approving finalized engineering drawings, assisting design subteams in the production of their test articles and flight hardware, as well as tackling the more complex machining tasks with advanced manufacturing techniques.

Finance Lead

Marketing Lead

BUSINESS

Love the idea of building a rocket, but daunted by the engineering behind it? Or maybe you’re an engineer who wants to dip their toes into the business side of things? Behind every excellent engineering project is an equally elite business team. The management of finances, procurement, marketing, and promotion are just as important as assembling the rocket itself. On the business team, we’ll be managing the master budget for our fundraising campaign, shooting promo and build videos, and coordinating outreach between our sponsors, families, and supporters. Important administrative steps are planned this year to give SARP more autonomy as an independent RSO, and plenty of opportunities to showcase your design and videography skills will be available as we step up our visibility on campus. As a member of the business team, you’ll get the chance to learn how to gain sponsors, produce content for social media, plan events, and do all the behind the scenes work that turns our rocket from sketches on paper to an engineering marvel at 30,000 feet in the air.