Thursday, November 5, 2015

-Results-

Our main issue with our rocket after the test was the parachute didn't come out.  To help this, we changed the parachute to a lighter bag and added a piece of tape to the parachute and the bottom of the full rocket.  We thought this would help it pull out the parachute.  When they separated this was suppose to pull it out and separate from the full bottle.  During our real test launch, our rocket was in the middle of the class talking about how successful it was.  Our rocket shot up, but instead of the tape breaking from the parachute and the bottom of the bottle, they stayed together.  This pulled out the parachute but didn't come out all the way.  This hurt the height of the rocket because it was not aerodynamic.  I think it would have been better without the tape.  It would have come out I think just because we used a lighter bag.  This also would have made our rocket fly much higher because the top part would have separated and it was aerodynamic and heavy enough to shoot up.  When the rocket came down, it was slow enough though that the egg did not break.  In conclusion the egg did not break but the rocket traveled 15 feet short of the goal.  

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