Team leads

Overview

The goal of the Liquid Propulsion sub team is to continually learn more about bi-propellant liquid rocket engines, by designing, manufacturing, and testing our own engine. While the other sub teams on Rocket Team support a central rocketry project, Liquid Propulsion instead focuses on design of an independent engine.

Learning Curriculum

 The liquid prop team is developing an on-boarding curriculum to provide new and existing members with an introduction into various important concepts that are necessary to know on the team. These topics include basic engine design, incompressible flow fundamentals, combustion fundamentals, feed system design, and more advanced topics as well. Click the header above to explore the different learning resources.

Project Helios

In the Fall of 2018, the team began the "Helios" engine project. Helios is a pressure-fed bi-propellant liquid engine designed to produce ~350lbf, and is fed with diluted Ethanol & LOX by an accompanying test stand. Helios's two main goals are to:

1. Understand basic engine design principles by building a simple engine
2. Learn how to efficiently and safely test high-pressure engines by building a pressurized feed stand.

As of now, Helios has been successfully assembled, and is nearly ready for its hot fire test. To read more about Project Helios, click the link above.

New Engine Project

Since the Summer of 2020, the team has began designing it's next engine. This new engine will feature regenerative cooling, more intensive design & analysis, and will use the existing feed stand. To read more about the new engine project, click the link above.