Mission Space: Project purpose and objective

Purpose: To find a way to get different payloads, i.e. satellites, chemicals, experimental instruments, or even people, into space at a reasonable price.


Objective: Launch a rocket into space using a launch pad attached to a weather balloon. Once successfully launched, the launch pad, which is on top of an airplane, comes back to a specific point to be used again.

Flight Phases:

    Phase 1 - Launch weather balloon with plane attached and rocket attached to plane.

    Phase 2 - Balloon rises up to reasonable height for launch (80,000+ ft).

    Phase 3 - Balloon pops, releases safety on the rocket.

    Phase 4 - Rocket launches from the plane and goes into orbit.

    Phase 5 - Plane begins its decent to specific location.

    Phase 6 - Plane is successfully recovered with video prof of rocket entering orbit.