This is the repository for the Western Engineering Rocketry Team's design of an airbrakes system.
Acronym | Full Name | Description |
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AGL | Above Ground Level | |
COTS | Commercial off-the-shelf | |
CP | Center of pressure | |
ESRA | Experimental Sounding Rocket Association | |
FOS | Factor of Safety | |
FS | Factor of Safety | |
IREC | Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition | Basically SAC. It used to happen somewhere else |
NM | New Mexico | |
NMSU | New Mexico State University | The university on whose grounds some parts of SAC are held |
OR | OpenRocket | |
.ork | OpenRocket filetype | |
RSO | Range Safety Officer | The person that gives you permission to launch |
SA | Spaceport America | The launch site where SAC is hosted |
SAC | Spaceport America Cup | |
SRAD | Student researched and designed | |
VLA | Vertical Launch Area | |
WERT | Western Engineering Rocketry Team | Also called WE Rocketry |