West Point-Beemer SLI Team

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Introduction:

     SLI is a competitive rocket and payload-building challenge designed for high school students. It requires an eight month commitment to successfully design, construct, test, launch, and recover a reusable rocket and science payload. The initiative is more than designing and building a rocket from a commercial kit. It involves diverse aspects such as: scheduling, purchasing, performing calculations, financing the project, coordinating logistics, arranging press coverage, and documenting impact made on education through reports and design reviews. Schools are encouraged to involve a diverse group of departments such as mathematics, science, technology, English, journalism, and art.

The performance targets for the launch vehicle and payload are:

• Vehicle carries science payload
• Vehicle designed to carry the science payload to an altitude of one mile (5,280 ft.) above ground level
• Maximum total motor impulse can not exceed 2560 Newton Seconds (K class)
• Motor impulse applicable to combinations of single motor, clustered motors, or staged motors
• Vehicle and science payload designed to be recoverable and reusable
• Vehicle and payload preparation on day of launch can not exceed four hours
• Data from science payload will be collected, analyzed, and reported by the team following the scientific method
• Vehicle uses solid motor propulsion with commercially available ammonium perchlorate composite propellant (APCP) motors
• Vehicle and payload will be equipped with a tracking device allowing the rocket to be recovered after launch

Project Proposals:

West Point-Beemer Initial Design Proposal

Preliminary Design Review

Critical Design Review

CDR Power Point

CDR Power Point Revised

FRR

FRR Power Point