This is the hardest of all open challenges.
Requirements
- Join the Half Cat Rocketry discord server, search "test stand" to get some ideas.
- Design a test stand. Reference the CAD.
- If the design is approved by the team, MARS will pay for the materials, and you will assemble it.
Testing
The stand must allow us to measure:
- Mass flow rate of propellants
- Thrust
There is no need to test horizontally.
We need to decouple the TCA with the propellant tanks in order to measure thrust and mass change independently.