Trident Mk.2
ARD's 2020 O-class design for the 30,000 ft category.
- Stages
- Single-stage
- Propulsion
- Solid
- Motor
- CTI Pro98 O3400-IM
- Apogee
- 30,000 ft target
Trident Mk.2 was ARD's 2020 design for the 30,000 ft category of the Australian Universities Rocket Competition, as Team 9: an O-class rocket on a Cesaroni Pro98 motor, with a 710 mm Von Karman fibreglass nose cone, three swept fins and dual RRC3 flight computers. Its progress report first floated the idea of airbrakes.
01Anatomy
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C-01·Nose cone
Nose cone
A 710 mm Von Karman nose cone in fibreglass.
- Shape
- Von Karman
- Material
- Fibreglass
- Length
- 710 mm
C-02·Avionics bay
Avionics bay
Two RRC3 flight computers for redundancy, with a BRB900 GPS tracker.
- Flight computers
- Dual RRC3
- Tracking
- BRB900 GPS
C-03·Recovery system (parachutes)
Recovery system
Dual deployment: a 24" elliptical drogue, then a 96" toroidal main at 1,000 ft.
- Drogue
- 24" elliptical
- Main
- 96" toroidal, at 1,000 ft
C-04·Motor and propulsion
Booster section
The 1,520 mm booster section carries the 98 mm Cesaroni Pro98 O3400-IM.
- Motor
- CTI Pro98 O3400-IM (O class)
- Total impulse
- 21,062 N·s
- Burn time
- 6.16 s
- Internal diameter
- 127 mm
C-05·Fin can
Fin can
Three swept fibreglass fins, wrapped in carbon fibre.
- Count
- 3
- Planform
- Swept
- Construction
- Fibreglass, carbon-wrapped
02Systems
Propulsion and ground
Stage 1 · Motor
CTI Pro98 O3400-IM
- Propellant
- Solid
- Impulse class
- O
Pro98 6G-XL reload. Total impulse 21,062 N·s, burn time 6.16 s.
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