Mamba

Vehicle Overview

Mission Objectives

  • 100,000 ft MSL

  • Mach 3.5

Stats

  • 11 feet tall

  • 6” outer diameter

  • P-class motor

Mission Patch

Vehicle Focuses:

  • Airframe Thermal Protection Systems

  • Custom Propellant

  • Composite Motor Design

  • Testing infrastructure

Subassemblies

Stainless Steel Tip

Mamba’s nosecone is capped with a 315 Stainless Steel tip which protects the vehicle from intense aero-thermal heating present at three times the speed of sound.

Structure

Internally, Mamba’s nosecone consists of two fiberglass half-shells that were laid up and bonded together.

Flight Computers

Mamba has three independent flight computers for redundancy. Among them is the YONIX flight computer developed by our avionics team.

Structure

Parachute deployment events apply substantial forces to the avionics bay. Steel threaded rods, aluminum sled mounts, and garolite bulkhead ensure that the avionics bay survives high-G loads during launch and parachute deployment.

Nosecone

Avionics Bay

Thermal Protection System

The majority of our nosecone is protected from aerodynamic heating with a layer of P-50 cork.

Motor

Main Chute Deployment

The flight computers will deploy our main chute at an altitude of 1300 ft AGL through the use of black powder pyrotechnic charges.

Drogue Chute Deployment

The drogue chute is deployed at apogee also through the use of black powder charges pyrotechnic charges.