The Rocket Project
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The Rocket
The students can't build a rocket alone. They will need the tools to do it.
Assisted by the Rocket Mavericks, led by Tom Atchinson, the Rocket team will need technology smart enough to launch a rocket – the new Sony® VAIO F and Z series notebooks powered by the all new 2010 Intel® Core™ Processors.
The Technology
The first rocket to reach the moon had less computing power than the new Sony VAIO Z series notebook. Which begs the question, can the new Sony VAIO design, operate and launch a rocket?
This literal product launch can't happen without the new Sony VAIO Z powered by the faster, smarter i5 processor. The new Sony VAIO is essential in the design stage, facilitating all Computer-Aided Engineering – CAD, aerodynamic simulation, computational fluid dynamics, dispersion analysis and Monte Carlo simulation. The new Sony VAIO will power the flight simulation software – ASTOS, RS-Pro, and Rocksim – and facilitate calculations for dispersion analysis, gas dynamics, aerodynamic stability, dynamic stability, structural loading, thermal heat transfer flux, fin flutter stability and much, much more.
This is why they call rocket science, 'rocket science.'
On launch day, the Sony VAIO will be the Mission Control for the launch. It will operate GPS tracking, telemetry, avionics monitoring, video and anything else the team can imagine.
