Sun Devil Rocketry, previously known as Daedalus Astronautics, is a student-led organization at Arizona State University focusing on rocket propulsion research and high-power rocketry. Since its founding in 2003, student members have continued to gain extracurricular experience relevant to today's aerospace industry through the projects they design, lead, and execute. In August 2019, students at Sun Devil Rocketry began developing a bipropellant liquid rocket engine and accompanying test infrastructure to improve students' access to and knowledge of liquid propulsion systems. The pressure-fed kerosene/liquid oxygen engine, initiated by an AP/HTPB slug, is designed to produce 405 lbf of thrust at a chamber pressure of 250 psig for 5 seconds. Kerosene is used to regeneratively cool the thrust chamber before being injected and atomized along with liquid oxygen using multiple unlike-triplet injector elements. Kerosene is also injected along the chamber wall for use in film cooling. The engine is mounted to a static test stand, which supports all plumbing, data acquisition, and control equipment necessary to fully support and document testing operations. Currently, the project is transitioning out of the design and review phase into manufacturing and testing. The following is a report on the processes used to design the system and important lessons learned thus far.
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