IREC Projects

SRAD radio and antennas 

SRAD Recovery system 

UB SEDS Recovery Systems Team has a main focus on designing, manufacturing, and testing a recovery system for our rocket, which has two parts: a reefed parachute, and a C02 separation system. What makes our recovery team so interesting is that we are one in a handful of teams who manufacture their own parachute completely in house, and we are a part of an even smaller group of teams who reef their own parachute. We also test all of our designs on campus through things like drop testing, stress testing, and line-cutter tests. Currently, our team is researching how using zero porosity ripstop nylon could benefit our parachute design.

NOSE CONE Manufacturing 

We have a subsection dedicated to the design and manufacturing of our Von-Karman fiberglass nose cone. Our process involves the design of two halves of a negative mold and a positive mold on Fusion 360 CAD which is then 3-D printed for the manufacturing process. Our manufacturing process involves a wet fiberglass layup where seven layers of fiberglass are put on the negative mold and then the two halves are put together with lap joints that hold the two halves together during the curing process. The positive mold is inserted into the negative mold to retain the interior shape for the antennas that reside there. The antennas are the reason we use fiberglass for our nose cone because of its RF transparant properties. We also machine our 2-inch aluminum tip in house. We are one of very few teams at the international rocket engineering competition that has a student researched and developed nose cone making it a unique project for our team. 

srad Hybrid rocket motor 

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