The mission includes development of standardized payload subsystems and manuals that facilitate increasingly complex future payloads and the maximum transfer of corporate knowledge to future student participants. Additionally, the mission will provide opportunities for students to design, implement, and test innovative systems through hands-on experience and collaboration between disciplines, universities and practicing aerospace engineers and scientists.

Nosecone

The nosecone is made of fiber glass which if RF transparent

Payload Frame

The payload frame consists of 4 longerons and 5 decplates. The deckplates provide mounting area for the SRP4 electronics, and the longerons hold these deckplates in place.

Deckplates

Each aluminum deckplate provides a mounting structure for payload electronics

Longerons

The longerons form the mechanical frmae that hodls the deckplates together

Umbilical Block

The umbilical block allow access to electrical connections inside the payload tube.

Dragplate

Radex Joint

Parachute Deckplate

The parachute deckplate attaches the parachute to the payload tube

Parachute Recovery

The parachute recovery system ewill lower the payload without damaging it. The recovery system consists of a drag plate, a 6 ft guided surfacr drogue chite and a 33 foot cross main chute.

Separation System