Failed Rocket Payload Included Research Experiments

Wireless Sensor Payload Design for Sounding Rocket

A quick turnaround Sub-Orbital Student Experiment Module sounding rocket experiment has been designed and built to initiate the Old Dominion University wireless spacecraft bus project for the Mid Atlantic Institute for Space and Technology. The sounding rocket was launched on the 8 of June 2006 from NASA Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. This wireless sounding rocket experime...

Structural & Internal Acoustic Response of Cylinders with Applications to Rocket Payload Fairings

Fast Starting Hollow Cathodes for Sounding Rocket-based Tether Experiments

Data are presented on cathode temperature profiles, electron emission profiles under no-flow conditions, and timed starting tests with gas flow. Correlations between the temporal behavior of the noflow emission current and the starting time are made, and a model is presented of the barium/bariumoxide generation and surface diffusion processes that describe the electron emission profile and star...

Noise Reduction of a Rocket Payload Fairing Using Tuned Vibration Absorbers with Translational and Rotational DOFs

Numerical optimisations were conducted to reduce the noise levels inside the payload bay of a rocket by using vibration and acoustic absorbers attached to the fairing walls. The vibration absorbers act in both translational and rotational axes. The acoustic absorbers were modelled as simplified Helmholtz resonators. A Finite Element model of the vibro-acoustic system was created in ANSYS and th...

Museum of failed HIV research

If a museum existed that contained a collection of failed artefacts related to HIV research what would that look like? How would failure be defined such that items could be representative of it and what would these definitions tell us about HIV research? These were some of the lines of enquiry which prompted the exploration of the Museum of Failed HIV Research as a conceptual space for scholars...