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RockSim companion program "Motor Builder" available |
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2000 Archived News by Apogee Components
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Friday, March 10, 2000 |
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado USA — Apogee Components is pleased to be the host web site of a neat little program written by Kimberly Harms. The program, called "Motor Builder," allows users to create odd-ball clusters of mixed motor diameters, so that they can be input into the RockSim software. This simplifies the process of performing simulations using RockSim.
The program combines the thrust profiles and masses of the individual motors, and creates a unified motor that is simply dropped into a .rkt file created by RockSim. This allows motors of different diameters to be used in a single simulation. And it also allows the user to specified the ignition point of each motor in the cluster, making it easy to simulate airstarted motors.
The output of the program is a standard .rasp file, so it is useful for other rocket simulation programs too.
This program is freeware, and is available from the Apogee Components web site:
http://www.apogeerockets.com.
Follow the links to RockSim, and then click on the link for neat stuff for RockSim.
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For further information:
Tim Van Milligan
Apogee Components, Inc.
630 Elkton Dr.
Colorado Springs, CO 80907-3514
http://www.ApogeeRockets.com |
