Browsing by Subject "Rockets (Aeronautics)"

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    • Estudio de los sistemas de control de empuje vectorial y diseño de una aplicación para cohetería experimental 

      Berral Navarro, Mario (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-02-05)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      En aquest treball es pretén realitzar un model de simulació parametritzable per al control de l'empenyiment vectorial mitjançant l'articulació del motor principal d'un model de coet experimental, així com la modelització ...

    • Estudio sobre el lanzamiento de cohetes desde el aire 

      De La Concepción Sánchez, Sergio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-05-24)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      En este trabajo se presenta un estudio sobre el lanzamiento de cohetes orbitales desde una plataforma aérea, centrándose en el análisis del comportamiento y la trayectoria del cohete cuando se lanza bajo estas condiciones. ...

    • Experimental investigation into the aerodynamics of Hammerhead launcher configurations in transonic regime 

      González Romero, Andrea (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-12-11)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      As the space industry continues to grow rapidly, the development of reusable launch vehicles has become crucial in achieving cost-effective and sustainable access to space. Payload capacity optimisation has been at the ...

    • Final testing, pre-launch activities, launch and post-launch analysis of a sounding rocket made by students in Spain 

      Badia Rifà, Alba; Cantos Gálvez, Daniel; El Ghaib Bougrine, Adam; Hidalgo Marí, Javier; Martí Arasa, Marc; Pena Sapena, Arnau (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-29)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      This paper summarizes the final launch preparation tests, the operations before, during, and after the launch, and the results of the launch of a supersonic sounding rocket developed by university students in Spain with ...

    • Findings from the ESA Education Fly a Rocket Campaign - Sensor Experiments Team 

      Michalek, Ota; Timmerman, Mike; Szczebak, Filip; Youds, Theodore; Alcañiz Gomez Del Pulgar, Jorge; Nallo, Gloria; Kutnohorsky, Viktoria; Lehtiniemi, Helena Katariina; Psaltakis, Georgios (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-29)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      The paper summarises the endeavour of 24 students during a Fly a Rocket campaign in October 2021. The programme is an educational week-long activity aimed at university students with limited hands-on experience. The campaign ...

    • Fly a Rocket! ESA's hands-on programme for undergraduate students 

      Guerra, Claudia; Beckers, Sam; Tavares Quintão, Arthur; Zemek, Jakub (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-29)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      The Fly a Rocket! programme is a hands-on project offered by the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Education Office in collaboration with Andøya Space Education and the Norwegian Space Agency (Norsk Romsenter). The programme ...

    • Fly A Rocket! Programme: assembly, testing and post-flight review of a sounding rocket payload 

      Crazzolara, Blanca; Gowran, Patrick; Vàzquez Mas, Jordi (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-29)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      The Fly a Rocket! programme is a hands-on project offered by the European Space Agency’s Education Office in collaboration with Andøya Space Education and the Norwegian Space Agency (Norsk Romsenter). The programme, which ...

    • From educational programmes to professional projects: finding flight opportunities 

      Frenea Schmidt, Armelle; Johansson, Henrik; Krämer, Stefan (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-29)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      Nowadays, lots of opportunities are offered to students to fly their own experiment on board of rockets or balloons. Thanks to those opportunities, young scientists have a chance to experience hands-on project and even to ...

    • How to manage a rocketry student project in full quarantine 

      Santos, Júlio; Silva, Jeremy; Neves, Henrique (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-29)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      The Fénix Project was created by a multidisciplinary team of forty students that aims to design and build a rocket totally Student Researched and Developed (SRAD), capable of reaching three thousand metres of altitude to ...

    • Lessons learnt during the REXUS program on how to manage a student project 

      Menting, Esmée; Britting, Thomas; Pepermans, Lars; Koops, Bram (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-29)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      The paper discusses the lessons learnt during the SPEAR mission that takes part in the 12th cycle of the Rocket EXperiment for University Students (REXUS) sounding rocket programme. The mission originated after Delft ...

    • Mining the hydrogen peroxide of Mars for monopropellant rocket fuel 

      Arias Montenegro, Francisco Javier (2019-10-10)
      Research report
      Open Access
      Already since the 1970s, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) has been suggested as a possible oxidizer of the Martian surface, but until only three decades latter it was finally detected. So far, the interest aroused by planetary ...

    • Model rocket workshop 

      Rojas Gregorio, José Ignacio; Villardi de Montlaur, Adeline de; Prats Menéndez, Xavier; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique (Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM), 2006)
      Conference report
      Open Access

    • Multidisciplinary design optimization for aerodynamic and propulsion components of rockets 

      Sayar, Yasemin (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-07-13)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Rockets are vehicles that people have worked hard on and made great progress in return throughout history. Over the years rockets have continued to evolve and have been clas- sified in different categories. Multistage ...

    • Progress of the development of a two-stage supersonic rocket within a student’s association 

      Tortosa Masbernat, Ernest; Rubio Juan, Vicente; Grau Rifà, Jordi; Soler Rodríguez, Albert; Llansó y Pérez, Ignacio; Campo Moyà, Joel; Gallart Martinez, Jordi (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-29)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      The Ares mission is part of a student-led project with the aim of developing a two-stage supersonic amateur rocket. This paper discusses the progress since its foundation in 2016 and how it is planned to continue progressing ...

    • Project of avionics module for a suborbital sounding rocket 

      Hidalgo Marí, Javier (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-10-17)
      Master thesis
      Restricted access - author's decision
      In this thesis an avionics module for a dual-event parachute deployment high-power rocket has been developed and tested. Its primary purpose is to issue control commands for stage separation and parachute deployment for ...

    • Selection criteria for parachutes of student-built sounding rockets 

      Britting, Thomas; Toussaint, Wesley Leonardus Jacobus Rudolf; Vukosavljević, Kristina; Sujahudeen, Mohamed Sahir; Knöll, Niklas Emil; Pepermans, Lars; Hadji, Yohan Pascal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-29)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      Various parachute-type decelerators can be considered in the design of a sounding rocket recovery system. During the development of various flagship missions of Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering (DARE), the Parachute ...

    • Simulation of frozen and shifting equilibrium expansion in rocket nozzle 

      Vara Murillo, Joseba (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-10-22)
      Bachelor thesis
      Restricted access - author's decision
      Covenantee:   Politecnico di Torino
      The purpose of this work is the development of a model to study the flow field in aerospace propulsion rockets. The goal is to obtain a model to compare between the flow in frozen composition or chemical equilibrium. Several ...

    • Study and design of a low cost cooled nozzle through metal additive manufacturing 

      Juan Marí, Héctor (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-07-20)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      State of the art rocket engines are reaching performance levels that have become limited by the available manufacturing techniques. With a great focus on these engines’ efficiency, rocket engine producers are focusing on ...

    • Study and development of a flight simulator for unguided solid-propellant rockets 

      Fuertes Pedrosa, Néstor (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-01-15)
      Bachelor thesis
      Restricted access - author's decision
      This work develops a 6 degrees of freedom rocket trajectory simulator for an unguidedsolid-propellant rocket. Its aim is to define a safety launching area for the CosmicResearch high-powered rocket, Bondar. A parametric ...

    • Study and implementation of the stability and control system of a mini-launcher 

      Ruizhi, Yuan (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011-07-26)
      Master thesis
      Open Access