New Software Calculates Lightning Rocket Trajectory
19th Feb 2020
Our propulsion team have been developing new software that will track trajectories for our rockets. It has been developed in FORTRAN. We are posting a demonstration image from a rocket with the following characteristics. It is an early snapshot but it is important to show our work and research. The info below is for a hypothetical vehicle.
The picture below is the trajectory of a 3 stage drop/air launch 350 km East off the Gold coast using Solid Fuel.
Drop is at 10,000 m. Mission is to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO).

We would track over Mexico City and Directly over Cape Canaveral in Florida. Our developer says:

LIGHTNING: Improved Trajectory attached:
Figures are for a hypothetical vehicle not for the actual design vehicle.
Mission: GTO
Launch Azimuth: 90.00 deg
Long Lat Alt (m) Pitch(deg)
Launch : 157.000 -28.000 00010000 90.000
Stage 1 Burnout: 159.032 -27.985 00115295 11.487
Stage 2 Burnout: 167.487 -27.541 00189682 2.530
Stage 3 Burnout: -173.978 -24.540 00201448 -9.990
S3 Burnout
Semi-Major Axis = 24370.85 km
Perigee height = 199.54 km
Apogee radius = 42164.02 km
Eccentricity = 0.73
Argument of Perigee = 1.61 deg
True Anomaly = 6.25 deg
Down Range Angle = 27.79 deg
We will post more on this later, but this is an early test run. More soon