Design and build a turbopump for a 6 klbf engine to reach the Kármán line as a student team participating in the Friends of Amateur Rocketry Dollar per Foot Challenge.
Leverage printing with Velo3D as much as possible to minimize part count and reduce complexity.
Leverage industry for support (sensors, balancing, design reviews, printing, machining) as we were broke college students.
The concept was to create a simple design that we could easily make as students. In our naivety we created a highly complex single shaft, dual rotor velocity compounded impulse turbine, gas generator open cycle, two stage liquid methane and single stage liquid oxygen impeller TPA.
