STUDENT ROCKET PROGRAM IN TOKAI UNIVERSITY

摘要

Tokai Student Rocket Project (TSRP) was established for a purpose of the space science and engineering hands-on education as an academic program at Tokai University Shonan campus in 1995. TSRP started to have rocket launch collaboration with University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) from 1996. In January 2000 and March 2002, two collaborative sounding rockets were launched at Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska and all of payloads were successfully carried to the apogee of 79 km and 89km high, respectively. The other TSRP project is hands-on hybrid rocket experiment. Three small hybrid rockets were launched to the level of 300-700m high in 2001 at Alaska and in 2004 at Japan; students made up accelerometer, onboard computer, and barometric altimeter on the payload. Students have developed new rocket engine, telemetry system and nonexplosive separation system and a new hybrid rocket launched in March, 2005. This program has proven to be very effective in providing students with practical, real-world engineering design experience, and this program also allows students to participate in all phases of a sounding rocket mission. Also students learn scientific knowledge, engineering technique, public affair and system management through experiences of cooperative teamwork.