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SpaceCAD, which is official software for the world’s largest rocket
contest TARC (Team America Rocketry Challenge), has been improved
based on experience and feedback from the students and mentors who
used it to build their contest entry rocket. “SpaceCAD 4 builds on its
strong successor, and has been mightily improved” says Andreas
Firnau, founder and owner of SpaceCAD.com, “the new powerful
features allow rocketeers to design and build better rockets with a very
intuitive and easy-to-use application”.
SpaceCAD 4.0 contains an improved flight simulation model that
also includes local atmospheric conditions like temperature and
humidity. The flight results can be exported to spreadsheet programs.
Also, the recovery of rockets is now fully simulated – allowing up to
two parachutes, plus covering drift prediction due to wind. Also, the
real coefficient of drag (cd value) can now be derived from measured
altitudes.
The parachute designer supports all types of parachute deployment
– timer based, height based. It supports two parachutes, so that you
can have a small drogue chute that opens after apogee and a large
one that opens close to the ground. This reduces the risk of losing your
rocket because of drift while still providing safe landing conditions.
SpaceCAD also computes the time it takes the rocket to land with the
selected parachute configuration.
SpaceCAD 4 can be downloaded as a 30-day trial version. The full
version is US$ 59; updates are also available for US$ 30. Customers
who bought SpaceCAD in the last six months are covered by the
SpaceCAD upgrade policy and get the upgrade for free (electronic key,
shipping charges for boxed version). This policy also covers the new
SpaceCAD release. SpaceCAD is available through SpaceCAD directly
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at http://www.spacecad.com and various resellers that are listed on
Page 2/2 at http://www.spacecad.com and various resellers that are listed on
the SpaceCAD homepage.
End of SpaceCAD Press Release
Rocket Store now stock SpaceCAD 4.0, please see our
online store for further details.
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