STARBURST pre-course study

For assignment 1.

  1. Rocket Engines
    1. The rocket engine principle
    2. The rocket thrust equation
    3. Total impulse
    4. Nozzle
    5. Rocket Motor Efficiency
    6. The Engine types: solid, liquid and hybrid… and a fourth
  2. Rocket Dynamics
    1. Aerodynamics and forces acting on the rocket
    2. Simulating a rocket launch
    3. Case: Ariane 5
  3. Satellite orbits
    1. Keplers laws
    2. Introduction to the six basic parameters
    3. Orbit Equations in a plane
    4. Examples of Orbits
  4. NAROM Student Rocket
    1. Encoder, transmitter and the sensors
    2. Encoder Frame