1. Liquid Rocket Engine Tamara Dib Bianca Viggiano John Tucker
Taylor Rice
Cam Yun
Kristin Travis

2. Background of PSAS Race to space – the von Karman Line
Open source projects – Github
Roll Stabilization
Solid fuel
Low budget

3. Customers Internal External Portland State University
Portland State Aerospace Society
Internal
Portland State University
Derek Tretheway

4. Design Criteria
Design, build and test a prototype ‘engineering development unit’ liquid rocket engine with 50lb thrust capability
Scale prototype appropriately for ability to be used on flight rocket
Provide sufficient documentation for expansion of design in future
Delivery of final product June 2016

5. Current Designs Liquid oxygen and ethanol/water mixture
Film and regenerative cooling
Bell nozzle design
Impinging stream Injector

6. Current Designs

7. Current Designs 3D printing of nozzle and combustion chamber
Machining of injector plate
Stainless steel vs. copper
Static vs. dynamic application

8. External Search
NASA
Rocketlab
SpaceX

9. Safety Proper handling and delivery of liquid oxygen
Approved facility for testing
Extensive analysis of combustion calculations

10. Risk Assessment Inability to obtain liquid oxygen for testing
Inability to reuse the engine due to poor cooling practices
Blowing up the engine
No testing site available
Incompletion of the project