u/Exciting-Frame7585

There’s a lot more to improve.

Here’s my take for a small/light - space launch vehicle inspired by JAXA’s SS 520-5 but mine is just slightly taller and can carry 20kg to low earth orbit (RSS). Utelizing a 3 stage design with the first 2 stages running pure solid fuel, unlike the SS 520-5 that launches on a tilted tower, I made mine a little different and uses active motor guidance for launching it inspired by the Onyx missile system to give the rocket a desirable pitch since solid motors can’t be vectored for directional/pitch control.

I made a few changes since my last post “Cool but impractical”. I removed the spin on launch and the rocket had become slightly more taller and heavier. I then added a simple vizzy script for auto orbit which takes care of every stages. The script gets you to orbit safely with 4-5% remaining liquid fuel to do orbital adjustment at least would give you a circularized 400-600km orbit adjustmemt. Also to mention, due to the nature of being a small rocket it has insane TWR and accelerates like crazy! So just to lessen the impact on precious satellite payloads, I added some shock absorbers.

I made a short video demonstration. I call this rocket “Maya” SS/CS LV (Small sat / Cube sat Launch Vehicle) - Maya is a filipino term for the bird Sparrow.

u/Exciting-Frame7585 — 3 days ago

Impractical but it looks cool

This is my under development 3-stage light space launch / cube sat platform for RSS inspired by Jaxa SS550 - 1st and 2nd stage are pure solid propellant and since solid motor cannot be vectored for direction control and do a gravity turn. I created this (idk what its called) kind of a launching system using small solid motors timed to actively launch this rocket at an angle instead of using a traditional angled launch rail.

It will punch through the atmosphere for an apogee of around 120-200km - let it coast till about 1 minute till apogee before activating 2nd stage to increase horizontal velocity. The final push and precise orbital corrections are provided by the 3rd stage small LOX/RP-1 engine.

IT CANT REACH ORBIT YET, BUT I SAW POTENTIAL. I’m working on it still.

u/Exciting-Frame7585 — 4 days ago