Monday, March 7, 2011
Day 4 Launch Summary
Today for our 4th day of launching our goal was to launch our rocket in the air for longer than 5 seconds. Our rocket was in the air for 7.8 seconds according to the stop watch. A difference on this launch is that we did not secure the parachute in a cone, we left it on the side of the bottle during launching. This allowed for the parachute to deploy perfectly, and with a lucky passing by breeze our parachute gave the bottle an extra 5 seconds of hang time . Other modifications we made to our rocket is that we put new fins on and attached them with duct tape instead of hot glue. The duct tape did its job in securing the fins down, and this time after our launch we were left with all three fins in tact. What i believe we can do to make our bottle stay in the air longer is put a cone on our bottle so that way the parachute does not deploy before it reaches its maximum height.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I really like your parachute. It seemed to work really well today, especially when it gave you guys extra hang time. Do you have any tips for the parachute because we are having a hard time getting ours to deploy? For the nose cone my suggestions is an orange cone. It seems to work well when you force it onto the bottle. My group found that when we stuck tabs on the bottle to hold the cone up, and then pushed it onto the rocket, the nose cone fell off consistently. I think this will increase your maximum height and allow your parachute to deploy.
ReplyDelete