PSAS' Current Project
Launch Vehicle No. 2 (LV2) is our current project. The project's scope includes the complete launch system comprising the rocket, mobile ground systems support, and development systems. Its first flight (an airframe only test to 18,000ft) was September 20, 2002 in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
For more information on the work in progress, please see the PSAS teams' home pages.
- Airframe Team
- Avionics Team
- Communications Team
- Ground Team
- Payload Team
- Propulsion Team
- Software Team
- Uncertainty Team
Preliminary Vehicle Specifications (NOTE: Outdated as of 9/2002)
- Airframe : Aluminum and glass fiber
- Length : 161 inches
- Weight : 110 lbs
- Motor : 50,000 Ns solid propellant
Here are a few documents on our design thus far
| LV2 white paper on Flight Avionics | Adobe .PDF (627K) |
| LV2 (Airframe) Design Requirements | Word Document (53.0K) |
| LV2 (Airframe) Coupler Design Criteria | Word Document (71.5K) |
| LV2 (Airframe) Vehicle Simulations (ver 1.01) | Word Document (655.5K) |
| Paper presented at USENIX 2003: Free Software and High-Power Rocketry | Usenix2003Paper |