Team Artemis

Nose Cone

The forward most component used to reduce drag

Structures

• The Aero-structures team designs the structural and aerodynamic components of the rocket.
• The airframe primarily consists of the
• Body tubes is made using fiberglass. It contains components like recovery bay, avionics bay and payload bay - which are connected by couplers
• Bulkheads separate and insulate diff components inside rocket
• Centering rings and motor bay hold the motor in place
• Fins provide lift forces to maintain stability of the rocket

Avionics

• Avionics is the brain of our system. The avionics senses data, crunches the numbers and gives an output out of actuators which control physical parameters of the rocket like applying air brakes or ejecting the parachute.
• The rocket’s avionics consist of an SRAD (Student Researched And Developed)flight computer, a COTS (Commercially Off The Shelf) altimeter, and a COTS GPS. All three modules function independently of each other.

Airbrakes

An airbrake is a mechanism that helps in slowing down the ascent of the rocket in order to reach the target apogee. The time and level of deployment of the airbrake fins is governed by Monte Carlo Simulations.

Propulsion

Propulsion, in simple words, is the force that moves something forward. Our rocket has a Mach no. of 0.78 which means that the velocity is 0.78 times the speed of sound. The Apogee of 10k feet is achieved at a time of 25.4 seconds from liftoff. Apeiron III achieves a max velocity of 954 km/h and a max acceleration of 86.5 m/s².