Garud - Rocketry Division of UPES

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Team Garud Formed under the guidance of Dr. Ugur Guven in 2014 and mentored by Dr. Gurunadh Velidi, Team Garud officially represents University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, at IREC. Team Garud has a long history of rockets and has been designing and fabricating rockets from past 4 years to compet...

Hey everyone! The results for the round of applications and Interviews are out. Attached below is the list of all selected students from their respective branches. Subdivisions will be alloted to you in the first team meeting which will be scheduled after Diwali holidays. For further information/clarification, you can directly contact us.
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With the completion of Project KALAM, Team Garud, The Rocketry Division of UPES is recruiting students in it's technical subdivisions -
1. Aerostructures
2. Propulsion
3. Avionics
4. Recovery System
5. Payload

Interested participants kindly apply in the link provided below before Thursday mid-night. Shortlisted candidates will be intimated by mail for interviews by next week.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHI9S3ZHmmMEiGcnvI9_JOoK_YTCLuTIhM1yxvdFwk5smHpA/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Team Garud (Official Rocketry Division of UPES)

Day1: Team Garud Presentation @ Las Cruces Convention Center

With the completion of the sounding rocket christened, 'KALAM', Team Garud from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies Dehradun is all set with it's Aerostructure, Payload & Avionics, and the Recovery System to participate for the third time in Inter-Collegiate Rocket Engineering Competition, hosted by Experimental Sounding Rocket Association & Spaceport America held at Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.
Team Garud will be representing India for the third time in IREC.
Stay tuned for the few touch-ups left before the team launches the rocket.

Team Garud (Structure division) is done with their rocket's structural system which includes all the parts which make up the frame of the rocket; the cylinder body tubes, couplers & bulkheads, centering rings, fairings & fins, and the nosecone.
Rocket structures must be strong but light weight.The performance of the rocket depends directly on the weight of the structure. A variety of mass ratios are used to characterize the structural weight of a rocket.

Stay tuned for the updates as we start with the final assembly and testings.

A rocket depends on its fins for good guidance. A well-placed fin has its root exactly parallel to the long axis of the rocket, and the line of the fin passes through the center of the body tube. The team prepared the slots which will keep the fins aligned axially. The jig only keeps the fins aligned radially.
Axial alignment is critical. Fins that are out of axial alignment will cause the model to spin — the single largest performance loss in rocket construction.

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Hey Folks ! We have come a long way but we have a longer way to go. IREC is one of the prominent competition which has taught not only the technicality in building a sounding rocket but also the way a team should work with dedication and focus. We have many more highs to share along with a few lows.
You all can reach out to us if you or your team has any questions or suggestions.

We'd love to have Experimental Sounding Rocket Association and Spaceport America Cup follow us and share some of our progress!

Manufacturing Carbon Fiber tubes can be a bit difficult at times.
We have used peel ply rather than going for vacuum mechanism to extract the tube out of the mandrel.
Peel ply was draped over the epoxied surface as the epoxy sets up. Once cured, we peeled off the fabric, and what’s left behind was a perfectly smooth surface that’s ready for a quick sanding, or for the next round of epoxy.

Our team prepared proper customized profile of nosecone on simulation software which was then converted on CAD and manually drawn template. A CNC Lathe Machine was used on which our structure's team worked and prepared the nosecone die made of 'Miranda Wood'. Abrasive Machining was later done to provide final surface finish.

The team moves towards the fabrication phase - with the bulkheads, centering rings and fins getting accurately manufactured via water jet cutting technology.
Stay tuned for more updates as we prepare our rocket body tubes and nosecone...