SRAD Solid Propellant Rocket

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At 15 years old, filled with curiosity and with more free time during the pandemic, I designed, built, and launched a high-power solid-propellant rocket. The most exciting part is that I built a Student Research and Development (SRAD) motor using KNSB propellant, an M1848 class motor with 7378 Ns of total impulse and 120.7 s of specific impulse.

The mission was to reach an apogee of 3,000 m. I built the structure using fiberglass lamination, epoxy, 3D printing, and machine work. The only part that's not SRAD is the parachutes, which are Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS).

Several software programs were used to model this rocket, including Fusion 360, Excel, and OpenRocket. 

Unfortunately, I didn't recover the rocket because the recovery system failed to deploy the parachutes, resulting in a ballistic descent and its loss.