AAE 450 Spring 2008 Stephanie Morris 3/6/08 Propulsion Final Propellant and Pressurant Cost Thanks to Nicole Wilcox!

AAE 450 Spring 2008 Propulsion Final Propellant and Pressurant Cost Stage 1Stage 2Stage 3 Payload (kg) Propellant Mass (kg) Cost ($) Propellant Mass (kg) Cost ($) Propellant Mass (kg) Cost ($) Total Propellant Cost $4, $3, $10, Pressurant Payload (kg)Mass (kg)Total Pressurant Cost $ $ $83.17

AAE 450 Spring 2008 Propulsion Report Outline Launch Method Analysis for Aircraft Feasibility of different types of aircraft Cost Hybrid Propellants Research for advantages/disadvantages Non-Catastrophic Failure for Propulsion Historical values for Standard Deviations Statistics for liquid and hybrid propellant Cost for Finalized Launch Vehicle of Propellant and Pressurant Analysis of the cost calculation Future Work Complete writing the sections outlined for the report.

AAE 450 Spring 2008 References  Code written by Nicole Wilcox to calculate the pressurant and propellant mass for each stage of the design.  The MAT output from the optimization runs from Saturday which give the propellant mass and pressurant mass for each stage of the finalized launch vehicles. Propulsion

AAE 450 Spring 2008 %AAE 450 Project - Nicole Wilcox %Small code exerpts taken from prop_code_1.m and three_stages.m %Those codes written by Nicole Wilcox, Stephen Bluestone, Dana %Lattibeaudiere, and Alan Schwing. %Code written solely for the purpose of calculating cost of propellant and %pressurant for final design phase. % Inputs mass_prop(1) = input('Please input the mass of stage one propellant. '); mass_prop(2) = input('Please input the mass of stage two propellant. '); mass_prop(3) = input('Please input the mass of stage three propellant. '); mass_press = input('Please input the mass of pressurant. '); % Calculation of Costs for i = [1:1:3] if i == 1 O_F = 6; mass_ox = mass_prop(1)*O_F/(1+O_F); mass_f = mass_prop(1)/(1+O_F); cost_o(i) = 0.13*mass_ox; %dollar cost_f(i) = 8*mass_f; %dollar elseif i == 2 cost_f(i) = 5*mass_prop(2); %dollar else cost_f(i) = 5*mass_prop(3); %dollar end end cost_stg1 = cost_o(1)+cost_f(1); %Cost of 1st stage cost_stg2 = cost_f(2); %Cost of 2nd stage cost_stg3 = cost_f(3); %Cost of 3rd stage cost_tot = cost_stg3+cost_stg2+cost_stg1; %Total cost of propellants cost_press = mass_press*0.50; %dollar