Code 810: Sounding Rockets Program Office
Code 810: Sounding Rockets Program Office
Wicomico High School - Small-scale Educational Rocketry Initiative (SERI) 1-25-2007
Wicomico High School, Salisbury, MD launched their third SERI rocket from Wallops Island, VA on January 24. This was the last of a series of high-powered student rockets flown as part of the SERI project. The student built rocket is eight feet tall and weighed about 10 lbs. The motor, a Hypertek J-250 hybride, uses a solid thermoplastic fuel grain and liquid Nitrous Oxide as oxidizer. The vehicle reached an apogee of approximately 1,400 feet and transmitted data from student sensors and an R-DAS flight computer throughout the entire flight. 
Wicomico
High School students, Robert and Lamar, prepare the vehicle for
launch. The payload, located inside the airframe tube, includes an
R-DAS flight computer, a 900 MHz spread spectrum modem for data transmission,
and student developed sensors (thermistors, photo cells and pressure
transducer).
SERI
Wicomico High School and NASA team prior to launch on Wallops Island.
The weather on launch day was a little chilly but the winds cooperated
and stayed below the limit of 15 mph.
Shortly
after 11 am the Wicomico High School SERI rocket took off from a portable
pad on the south end of Wallops Island. Apogee was around 1,400 feet
and the parachute successfully deployed at + 11 seconds after lift-off.
