Test Rocket 2: Saber

The Test Rocket No. 1 payload was originally designed to be flown on government surplus Apache rocket motors to establish the performance envelope for validating student built payloads on single-stage Apache vehicles. In late 1999, NASA/Wallops provided an Orion motor to fly the UAF Student Rocket Program Test Rocket No. 1 payload as a developmental step in developing a standardized payload for the higher performance Orion launch vehicles; The 30 indicates the Orion vehicle, the 0.044 designates this is the 44th Orion vehicle to be flown as a university special project (UP).

UAF/NASA/PFRR Orion vehicle 30.044 UP was successfully launched from Poker Flat Research Range on Jan. 30, 2000 at 1:25 a.m for a ballistic flight. The rocket payload flew a 3-axis accelerometer built by electrical and mechanical enginering students at the Univeristy of Alaska Fairbanks, along with a 3-axis magnatometer built by engineering students from Tokai University in Japan. The flight met the success criteria, received good payload telemetry data, reaching 258,633 ft.

Project Description

 

The Test Rocket No. 1 payload was originally designed to be flown on government surplus Apache rocket motors to establish the performance envelope for validating student built payloads on single-stage Apache vehicles. In late 1999, NASA/Wallops provided an Orion motor to fly the UAF Student Rocket Program Test Rocket No. 1 payload as a developmental step in developing a standardized payload for the higher performance Orion launch vehicles.  The 30 indicates the Orion vehicle, the 0.044 designates this is the 44th Orion vehicle to be flown as a university special project (UP).

UAF/NASA/PFRR Orion vehicle 30.044 UP was successfully launched from Poker Flat Research Range on Jan. 30, 2000 at 1:25 a.m for a ballistic flight. The rocket payload flew a 3-axis accelerometer built by electrical and mechanical enginering students at the Univeristy of Alaska Fairbanks, along with a 3-axis magnatometer built by engineering students from Tokai University in Japan. The flight met the success criteria, received good payload telemetry data, reaching 258,633 ft.

Dimensions:
 

Nose Cone Length-----------44.0 inches Payload Length--------------69.3 inches Payload Diameter------------8.0 inches Payload Adpater Length-----1.2 inches Transition Section Length----31.0 inches Payload Weight-------------112 pounds

Motor Length---------------105.5 inches Motor Diameter-------------14.0 inches Motor Weight---------------961 pounds Total Vehicle Length---------20.6 feet Total Vehicle Weight---------1073 pounds.