Rockets and Launch Vehicles Selection and Design Training

Commitment 4 days, 7-8 hours a day.
Language English
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Delivery Options Instructor-Led Onsite, Online, and Classroom Live

COURSE OVERVIEW

Rockets & Launch Vehicles Selection and Design Training provides an overview of rockets and missiles, including a fourth day covering advanced selection and design processes. The Rockets & Launch Vehicles Selection and Design course provides wide practical knowledge of rocket and missile issues and technologies. The Rockets & Launch Vehicles Selection and Design Training seminar is designed for engineers, supporting disciplines, decision-makers, and managers of current and future projects needing a more complete understanding of the complex issues of rocket and missile technology. The seminar provides a foundation for understanding the issues that must be decided in the design, use, regulation, selection, and development of rocket systems of the future.

You will learn a wide spectrum of problems, solutions, and choices in the technology of rockets and missiles used for both military and civil purposes. The seminar is taught from the point-of-view of a decision maker needing the technical knowledge to make better-informed choices in the multi-discipline world of rockets and missiles. The Rockets & Launch Vehicles Selection and Design Training class provides what you need to know about how rockets and missiles work, why they are built the way they are, what they are used for, and how they differ from use to use. You will learn how rockets and missiles differ when used as weapons, as launch vehicles, and in spacecraft or satellites. The objective is to give the decision maker all the tools needed to understand the available choices and to manage or work with other technical experts of different specialized disciplines.

WHAT'S INCLUDED?
  • 4 days of Rockets & Launch Vehicles Selection and Design Training with an expert instructor
  • Rockets & Launch Vehicles Selection and Design Course Guide
  • Certificate of Completion
  • 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this Rockets & Launch Vehicles Selection and Design Training course, learners will be able to meet these objectives:

  • Fundamentals of rocket and missile systems, functions, and disciplines
  • The full spectrum of rocket systems, uses, and technologies
  • Optimum Selection and Design strategies
  • Fundamentals and uses of solid, liquid, and hybrid rocket systems
  • Differences between weapons systems and those built for commerce
CUSTOMIZE IT
  • We can adapt this Rockets & Launch Vehicles Selection and Design course to your group’s background and work requirements at little to no added cost.
  • If you are familiar with some aspects of this Rockets & Launch Vehicles Selection and Design course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
  • We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the Rockets & Launch Vehicles Selection and Design course around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
  • If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the Rockets & Launch Vehicles Selection and Design course in a manner understandable to lay audiences.
AUDIENCE/TARGET GROUP

The target audience for this Rockets & Launch Vehicles Selection and Design course:

  • Engineers
  • Technical managers
  • Technicians
  • Logistics and support
CLASS PREREQUISITES

Rockets and Launch Vehicles Selection and Design Training

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this Rockets and Launch Vehicles Selection and Design course are:

  • Basic technical knowledge

COURSE SYLLABUS

  1. Introduction to Rockets and Missiles– The student is introduced to the historic context and practical applications of various types of rocket systems.
  2. Classifications of Rockets and Missiles– The classifications, terminology, and uses for various types of rocket systems are presented.
  3. Rocket Propulsion Fundamentals– The chemistry and physics of all rockets and rocket nozzles operating to achieve thrust are explained. Rocket performance modeling is introduced.
  4. Rocket Environments– The flight environments of rockets, such as acceleration, aero/plume heating, mechanical shock, and vibration are presented. The imposed ground handling loads and pre-launch environmental hazards are also discussed.
  5. Aerodynamics and Winds– The effect of winds, atmospheric density, and flight velocity on the lift, drag, and dynamic pressure is explained. Rocket shape, stability, and venting are discussed.
  6. Performance Analysis and Staging– The use of performance modeling and loss factors is defined. The staging theory for multi-stage rockets is explained.
  7. Mass Properties and Propellant Selection– The relative importance of specific impulse, density, temperature, storability, ignition properties, stability, toxicity, material compatibility, and ullage are explained. Monopropellants and cold gas propellants are introduced.
  8. Introduction to Solid Rocket Motors– The historical and technological aspects of Solid Rocket Motors is explored. Solid rocket materials, propellants, thrust profiles, construction, cost advantages, and special applications are explained.
  9. Fundamentals of Hybrid Rockets– The characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages of solid-liquid hybrid rocket systems are discussed.
  10. Liquid Rocket Engines– Pressure and pump-fed liquid rocket engines are explained, including injectors, cooling, chamber construction, pump cycles, ignition, and thrust vector control.
  11. Introducing the Liquid Rocket Stage – Liquid rocket stages are introduced, including tank systems, pressurization, cryogenics, and other structures
  12. Thrust Vector Control– Thrust Vector Control system types, characteristics, and practical considerations for keeping a rocket vehicle on a desired trajectory are explained.
  13. Basic Rocket Avionics– Flight electronics elements of Guidance, Navigation, Control, Communications, Telemetry, Range Safety, and Payloads are defined.
  14. Modern Expendable Launch Vehicles– Good expendable launch vehicle design characteristics are identified, with examples of alternative design features.
  15. Rockets in Spacecraft Propulsion– The differences between systems on spacecraft, satellites, and transfer stages, operating in microgravity, are examined.
  16. Launch Sites and Operations– The role and purpose of launch sites, and the choices available for a launch operations infrastructure, are explored.
  17. Useful Orbits & Trajectories Made Simple– A simplified presentation of orbital mechanics, for the understanding of rocket propulsion in orbital trajectories and maneuvers, is provided.
  18. Safety of Rocket Systems– The hazards, risks, and practical mitigation measures in rocket launch operations are examined.
  19. Reliability of Rocket Systems– Reliability, and strategies to improve reliability, are discussed, including random and systematic failures, reliability environments, quality, robustness, and redundancy.
  20. Reusable Launch Vehicle Theory– Fully and partially Reusable Launch Vehicle characteristics are introduced, with a focus on analyzing the costs of recovery and reuse of the various launch vehicle elements.
  21. Rocket Cost Principles – Cost estimation methods of modeling launch systems and strategies for cost reduction. Integrated modeling and the role of incentives are introduced.
  22. Chemical Rocket Propulsion Alternatives– Alternatives to chemical rocket propulsion include air-breathing, nuclear, thermal, cannons, and tethers explored.
  23. The proliferation of Missile Technology– Foreign missile threat assessment, and issues surrounding the proliferation of enabling missile technologies.
  24. The Future of Rockets and Missiles– The current trends and potential direction of rocket technology, usage, and regulations.
  25. Selecting and Designing Launch Vehicles.– The launch vehicle optimization processes for both designing and selecting a launch vehicle for a given space mission. Design/selection rationale includes time and circumstances of launch requirements and other reasons for choosing a particular launch system.
  26. The Goals and Incentives of Launch Vehicle Design– Setting goals and incentives for a successful project. Goals and incentives of the past explain future successes and failures
  27. Optimum Launch Vehicle Design Strategies– Optimum design strategies and potential evolution of a launch vehicle design into a family of variants with a broader range of capabilities. Case studies of Soyuz, Delta, Falcon, and others illustrate which strategies have been successful, and how bad assumptions have led to problems in others.
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