Rockets and Missiles Training Fundamentals
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Rockets and Missiles Training Fundamentals Hands-on (Online, Onsite, and Classroom Live)
| Commitment | 3 days, 7-8 hours a day. |
| Language | English |
| User Ratings | Average User Rating 4.8 See what learners said |
| Price | REQUEST |
| Delivery Options | Instructor-Led Onsite, Online, and Classroom Live |
COURSE OVERVIEW
Rockets and Missiles Training Fundamentals provides an overview of rockets and missiles for government and industry officials, even those with limited technical experience in rockets and missiles. The Rockets and Missiles Fundamentals course provides practical knowledge of rocket and missile issues and technologies. The Rockets & Missiles Training Fundamentals 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 use, regulation, 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 and Missiles Training Fundamentals 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?
- 3 days of Rockets and Missiles Training Fundamentals with an expert instructor
- Rockets and Missiles Fundamentals Course Guide
- Certificate of Completion
- 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon completing this Rockets & Missiles Training Fundamentals 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
- Differences in technology between foreign and domestic rocket systems
- Fundamentals and uses of solid, liquid, and hybrid rocket systems
- Differences between systems built as weapons and those built for commerce
CUSTOMIZE IT
- We can adapt this Rockets & Missiles Training Fundamentals 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 & Missiles Training Fundamentals course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
- We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the Rockets & Missiles Training Fundamentals 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 & Missiles Training Fundamentals course in a manner understandable to lay audiences.
AUDIENCE/TARGET GROUP
The target audience for this Rockets & Missiles Training Fundamentals course:
- All
CLASS PREREQUISITES
Rockets and Missiles Training Fundamentals
The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this Rockets and Missiles Fundamentals course are:
- Basic technical knowledge
COURSE SYLLABUS
- Introduction to Rockets and Missiles – The student is introduced to the historic and practical uses of rocket systems.
- Classifications of Rockets and Missiles – The classifications and terminology of all types of rocket and missile systems used as weapons of war, space exploration, and commerce, are defined.
- Rocket Propulsion made Simple – The chemistry and physics defining how all rockets and rocket nozzles operate to achieve thrust are explained. Rocket performance modeling and efficiencies are introduced.
- Rocket Flight Environments – The flight environments of rockets, acceleration, propellant consumption, heating, shock, vibration, ascent profile, and plume phenomenology are explored.
- Aerodynamics and Winds – The effect of winds, atmospheric density, pressure, and rocket velocity on the lift, drag, and dynamic pressure is explained. Rocket shape, stability, and venting requirements are discussed.
- Performance Analysis and Staging – The use of low and high-fidelity performance modeling, including performance loss factors, is defined. Staging theory, performance, and practices for multi-stage rockets are explained.
- Mass Properties and Propellant Selection – No aspect is more important, or more often mismanaged than optimum propellant selection. The relative importance of specific impulse, bulk density, bulk temperature, storability, ignition properties, stability, toxicity, operability, compatibility with materials, alleged requirements, and special mixtures are defined. Monopropellants and cold gas propellants are introduced.
- Introduction to Solid Rocket Motors – The historical and technological aspects of Solid Rocket Motors is explored to understand the applications, advantages, disadvantages, and tradeoffs over other forms of rockets. Solid rocket materials, propellants, thrust profiles, construction, cost advantages, and special applications are explained.
- Fundamentals of Hybrid Rockets – The operation, safety, technology, and Problems associated with hybrid rockets are discussed.
- Liquid Rocket Engines – Issues of pressure and pump-fed liquid rocket engines are explained, including injectors, cooling, chamber construction, pump cycles, ignition, and thrust vector control.
- Introducing the Liquid Rocket Stage – The elements of liquid rocket stages are introduced, including propellant tank systems, pressurization, cryogenics, and other structures
- Thrust Vector Control – Thrust Vector control hardware and alternatives are explained.
- Basic Rocket Avionics – Flight electronics elements of Guidance, Navigation, Control, Communications, Telemetry, Range Safety, and Payloads are defined.
- Modern Expendable Launch Vehicles – The essence of good launch vehicle design is explored and defined, with examples of the American Delta-II and Russian strategy as an alternative.
- Rockets in Spacecraft Propulsion – The differences between launch vehicle booster rocket systems, and the systems found on spacecraft, satellites, and transfer stages operating in microgravity and using hypergolic storable propellants, are examined.
- Launch Sites and Operations – The student is given an understanding of the role and purpose of launch sites, and the choices available for a launch operations infrastructure.
- Useful Orbits & Trajectories Made Simple – A simplified presentation of orbital mechanics, appropriate for the understanding of the role of rocket propulsion in orbital trajectories and maneuvers, is provided to the student.
- Safety of Rocket Systems – The hazards and mitigations of inherently hazardous rocket operations are examined.
- Reliability of Rocket Systems – The reliability issues in rocket systems, and strategies to improve reliability, are discussed, including random and systematic failures, non-linear reliability curves, environments and reliability, parts quality, robustness, redundancy, reliability trends, and why failures exceed expectations in many rocket systems.
- Reusable Launch Vehicle Theory – The student is provided with an appreciation and understanding of why Reusable Launch Vehicles have had difficulty replacing expendable launch vehicles since the first operational space shuttle began service.
- Rocket Cost Principals and Cases – The student is introduced to cost estimation methods and cost model systems as a science. An understanding of why costs are so high is provided, with alternative strategies from the Soyuz Case to illustrate alternatives and limitations to cost reduction. The concept of integrated design modeling and positive incentives is introduced.
- Chemical Rocket Propulsion Alternatives – Alternatives to chemical rocket propulsion, including air-breathing engines, nuclear engines, thermal engines, cannons, tethers, and zero time-of-flight weapons.
- The proliferation of Missile Technology
- The Future of Rockets and Missiles – A final open discussion regarding the direction of rocket technology, science, usage, and regulations of rockets and missiles is conducted to close out the class.
