| Avionics : | |
| Microcontrollers : | |
| Microchip, Inc. | Produces fantastic RISC microcontrollers with FREE development system. These guys have more bang for the buck, and a better development environment, than we've seen as of yet. We used the PIC 16C73A and 17C756. |
| Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | Produces the fastest FLASH RAMs available - that are affordable and large enough for scientific data logging applications (4M x 8 - the AM29F032B). |
| Sensors : | |
| Brooke Clarke's Page | Great Resource for all types of sensors necessary for INS |
| Analog Devices, Inc. | Produces the best affordable solid-state accelerometers on the market, as well as some mean 16bit Analog to digital converters. Specifically, we used the ADXL05 and ADXL50. |
| Murata, Inc. | Low cost, solid-state Gyroscopes. |
| Telemetry : | |
| Spread Spectrum Scene | FREE Public Domain Software Good source for RF and antenna design software |
| TDK Semiconductors | Produce a great one-chip + crystal solution for a 1200bps modem that can be boosted to higher throughputs given a larger bandwidth avaialable. |
| Motorola, Inc. | Produces good RF receiving chips; we used the MC13135. |
| Holtek Semiconductors | Produces RF chips, and nice single chip DTMF tone decoder. |
| GPS : | |
| Sam Wormley's GPS page | Global Positioning System (GPS) Resources |
| Materials : | |
| Chemicals: | |
| Firefox | Materials source for pyrotechnics and high power rocketry |
| Composites: | |
| Pratt Hobbies | Tubular Kevlar. |
| Aerospace Composite Products | A variety of composite materials specifically developed for lightweight applications. Fiberglass, Kevlar and Carbon materials are available in various forms. |
| IMIN | Link to distibutors of resins. |
| Metals : | |
| Titanium Industries Inc. | Stock a complete line of titanium and zirconium mill products for industrial and aerospace industry use. |
| How To : | |
| Mining Co. Composite Materials | A good "how to" on working with composites. Also an article on building a vacuum pump. |
| Rocketry Online Info-Central | How to vacuum Bag composite material. |
| Chris's Workshop Techniques | Notes on Workshop Techniques for machining. |
| Research Resources : | |
| CASI Technical Report Server | Center for AeroSpace Information. Technical paper search engine |
| NTRS | NASA Technical Report Server. |
| Air Force Research Laboratory | Technical Report Abstracts. |
| AIAA | Search for and order AIAA technical papers. |
| ACSL Electronic Library | AEgis Software's online library. |
| Software Tools : | |
| Cadsoft EAGLE 3.5 Light Edition | Free PCB layout software, capable of doing a 4"x3" board |
| Scilab | Free scientific software package for numerical computations in a user-friendly environment |
| Sunsite FTP | Lots of downloadable rocket software |
| aRocket | Jump page for downloadable software (some is limited shareware). Good page! topics include: Combustion Analysis / Composite Material Design / Recovery System Design / Data Collection /Altitude Simulations / Trajectory Simulation / Aerodynamic stability Simulation |
Other Projects :
- University of Alaska Fairbanks Alaska Space Grant Program
- CGS HOMER High-altitude Ozone-Measuring and Educational Rocket
- ICANo Initial Civilian/Amateur Near orbital Mission
- UNITY IV Hybrid Rocket Project at BYU
- ?SEDS Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
- ASRI Australian Space Research Institute
- ERPS Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society
- Cal Poly California State Polytechnic University Pomona
- UALR Hybrid Rocket Facility Homepage
- HAL5 Huntsville Alabama L5 Society
- JP Aerospace America's other space program.
- RRS Reaction Research Society
- PRS Pacific Rocket Society
- DARK Experimental Rocketry in Denmark
- UC Berkeley Inertial Sensors for Navigation, Guidance and Control of Vehicles
- Breck's Parafoil Recovery Experiment
- Trevor Foster's Page CPSS (CalPoly Space Systems) parafoil recovery system
- Georgia Tech EAG Aerodynamics of the X-38 Parafoil.
Good Link Pages :
- The Amateur Rocketry Links Library Best rocket link page around.
- Mark Gruntman's Page Astronautics, Spacecraft Design and Spacecraft Systems (100's of space related links)
- The Aerospace Navigator Aerospace & Astronomy Resources.
Coolness :
- Sattalite Images (MicroSoft and USGS) a lot of North America and Europe from space.
- J-Track 3D Java Satellite Tracker.
- ExoScience Live Space Cams.
- United Space Alliance Live Data.
- NASA Image eXchange Great historical photos.
- Space Movie Archive gateway database of 2650+ videos !
- NorthWest Rocketry Region amatuer rockety news and info.
- Oregon Rocketry Local Tripoli rocket group w/ meetings and lauches.
- L5 Society Oregon Chapter of the National Space Society.
- Tripoli. The National High Power Rocket Club
- Rocketry Online. Current news and links from the High Power Rocketry World