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Hello, I'm Aditya Thakur and I'm a final year aerospace technology student studying at Coventry
University. As part of my final year project I did simulation of a rocket. I had two options,
I could have gone for the Windtunnel at Coventry University or I could have used a simulator.
I chose to use a simulator, the simulator being X-Plane 10. The fact is that X-Plane
10 is an aeroplane simulator and I was about to design a rocket, Atlas 5401, from the Atlas
V family having an impressive success ratio, famous payloads such as Solar Observatory.
The design was designed in Planemaker and simulated in X-Plane 10. The results were
obtained for various staging sequences with in the rocket itself, launch, staging and
introducing the payload into orbit. The end of the day I learnt a lot which not only included
simulation but also flight dynamics and about control surfaces revolving around rockets.