Abstract:At the beginning of the Fall 2008/2009 school year, a group of four senior aerospace engineering students at Parks College, Saint Louis University founded the Earthrise Group. The purpose of this group was to participate in communal research projects, the first of which was the Perseus Launch Vehicle senior capstone project. The mission called for a rocket launch vehicle that was capable of placing a picosatellite or nanosatellite payload of mass no greater than fifteen kilograms into a circular earth orbit no… Show more
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