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Lift-off: Pakistan’s first-ever hybrid rocket readying for launch
- Updated: August 26, 2016
The DSU Star Busters group tested Raheel 1 3 times during August, with a many successful exam conducted on Aug 12. PHOTOS: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESS
KARACHI: Set a five-kilogramme aluminum structure on a mount bound with a bucket dungeon sensor and insert a oxygen fuel tank in a categorical projection and we are all set to light a first-ever hybrid rocket finished in Pakistan by dual Defence Housing Authority Suffa University (DSU) automatic engineering final-year students, Waqas Aslam and Khizar Siddiqui and deputy-head of automatic engineering dialect Dr Bilal Ahmed Siddiqui – group DSU Star Busters.
The one-of-a-kind hybrid rocket has been named Raheel 1, Raheel definition Voyager, that is a name of National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (Nasa’s) interstellar goal programme. The thought to make a hybrid rocket that works with a fuel and oxidiser brew was a mind child of Dr Siddiqui, who researched on a record for some-more than a year.
“I always wanted to do something to assistance in aerospace engineering,” pronounced Dr Siddiqui, who has finished his masters in aerospace engineering and PhD in robotics, while articulate to The Express Tribune
DSU’s rocketry programme is a second such university-level programme in Asia and a varsity is among 20 universities in a universe doing slicing corner investigate in a field, claimed Dr Siddiqui, explaining that other than DSU, usually India is operative on such record in Asia.
The DSU Star Busters group tested Raheel 1 3 times during August, with a many successful exam conducted on Aug 12. The rocket’s glow was checked and tested for 5 seconds, in that it constructed a bearing force of over 50 kilogrammes. “A glass oxygen fuel tank, containing 6 litres of fuel, is used to support a rocket,” sensitive Dr Siddiqui.
“The structure of Raheel 1, that cost scarcely Rs50,000, took around 6 months to complete,” settled Aslam, adding that their group will take another 8 months to serve rise and labour their innovation.
The rocket can be used in supersonic cars and tiny satellites in a future. “The figure and stretch can change with a same regulation and investigate and it will be really inexpensive to make, as compared to other options accessible in a country,” pronounced Khizar.
“We are regulating a same regulation and investigate to make a fastest automobile in Asia, upheld by a university, that will have horsepower of 500km per hour,” sensitive Dr Siddiqui.
“Raheel 1 is now in contrast proviso and a students are looking after time relapse and all other factors,” pronounced automatic lab operative Mahrukh Mumtaz Hussain, adding that Pakistan has not finished most work in this margin given of a high cost, however, this creation [Raheel 1] will move a cost down.
The three-man group has also grown a mechanism focus by that they can control and weigh a speed and bearing of a rocket. “A micro-controller is trustworthy to a rocket’s mount that is connected to a mechanism application. It detects a rocket’s force, time and all other factors,” pronounced Dr Siddiqui.
Structure explained
A hybrid rocket is finished adult of an aluminum physique with a graphite cloak inside as it can work on aloft heat as well, explained Dr Siddiqui, display a thick, black cloak inside Raheel 1.
“We have used candle polish inside a rocket that can also be transposed with leather or rubber,” he said, adding that a polish can be reused after cooling down in 15minutes. Leather and rubber are not environment-friendly elements, he added.
Testing precautions
We use gloves, goggles, glow extinguishers and keep a decent stretch from a contrast area as precautions during a time of testing, pronounced Dr Siddiqui, adding that currently, Raheel 1 can be tested for some-more than a minute, though given DSU is located in a residential area, it is formidable to do so.
Published in The Express Tribune, Aug 27th, 2016.