Ongoing Projects
Trade Study analysis software
This is a project to develop a software package to perform trade studies on
the SpaceCub. It will allow the user to put in different
parameters such as fuselage size and shape, nose cone size and shape, wing
span, sweep, and thickness, canard size and placement, and so on. The
software would then draw a picture of the design, make a weights and
balances estimate, and estimate subsonic and supersonic drag and stability.
Develop 3D drawing engine (Done)
Develop SpaceCub design specification engine (In Progress)
Develop aerodynamic characteristics calculation engine
Develop user interface
SpaceCub performance simulator
This is a project to develop a software package to take the results of trade
studies produced by the above and run a variety of standard flight profiles
to gauge performance of the various packages. This is to be an
extension of the existing package used for the initial analysis
Future projects
10% scale flight model.
This is to be a model, possibly radio controlled, to test stability of the
design in subsonic and low supersonic flight regimes.
Cockpit mock-up/simulator
This will first be a non-functional mock-up to test human factors for the
full scale system and later will be equipped with functioning controls to
run a computer flight simulator.
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