DAVE

DAVE: Deployable Aerial Vehicle Experiment or DAVE Aerial Vehicle Experiment. Project initiated Spring 2020. The project was cancelled in August 2023.

Purpose

DAVE is the payload subteam's primary research project intended to be flown on a 6 inch diameter rocket. DAVE is planned to consist of a semi-autonomous, passively stable glider, a mechanism to deploy the glider from the rocket, and associated test platforms.