Brian	


-Define our goals. Define our design. Build it.

	·	Take ownership and be accountable. 
	·	Develop on schedule and to completion the product we decide upon.
	·	Make it safe.  
	·	Don’t introduce feature creep or make unnecessary design changes during the process.  Take ‘wouldn’t that be cool’ ideas we generate during the process and apply them to the 2nd generation motor and not the 1st generation.  This will likely keep us more focused and on track and allow us to finish in a reasonable amount of time. 





-General Goals:

	1)	A hybrid motor for investigating active guidance. 
	2)	Develop paraffin technology. (Perhaps later on in the project do something innovative that may be commercially valuable or at least publishable.)
	3)	Want simple and inexpensive more than extreme efficiency or altitude.
	






-Specifics Goals:

	1)	A reusable LOX/Paraffin hybrid rocket motor capable of 10% throttling and active guidance
	2)	Capable of taking a vehicle to 100K feet.
	3)	Safe and reliable.
	4)	Good for 50 launches. (5% disposables per flight)
	5)	Inexpensive < $1000 per motor. (Count out-sourced labor even if donated, don’t count ‘special deals’ unless they are relatively constant.)
	6)	Inexpensive < $75 per flight.
	7)	Cost vs. efficiency.  (I.e. doubling the cost of a component to get 10% more efficiency is not always worth it. It might be more advantageous to go with a less efficient design and just add more propellant, which is an inexpensive component. On the other hand doubling the cost to get a 100% increase in efficiency on a major component may be worthwhile).
	8)	Simple vs. complex.  To the point of sacrificing efficiency. (To increase reliability and manufacturability)
	9)	COTS and readily available parts vs. exotic one-offs. To the point of sacrificing efficiency. (If it saves time or money and the efficiency penalty is not great)
	10)	Manufacturability. If we can build it in house on manual mill, lathe and TIG that may save us money and will improve our skills.