Misc

Acknowledgements

ZenRockets builds on open-source software, public data and years of shared rocketry work.

This project is only possible because a lot of people did a lot of stellar work selflessly in the open. This page is a small, living record of the projects and communities that make the app possible and have helped my venture into this wonderful past-time.

With thanks to:#

  • RocketPy for the flight simulation foundation used by ZenRockets' trajectory service.
  • openMotor for internal-ballistics work that informs the motor simulation flow.
  • OpenRocket for long-running public rocket-design work, file-format compatibility and validation references.
  • Richard Nakka and his Experimental Rocketry site — for being a guiding light for a lot of us for a very long time. It's hard to overstate how much the rocketry community owes to Richard. His experimentation, rigor in documenting and explaining is second to none.
  • ThrustCurve.org for the motor-data ecosystem and interchange formats used throughout high-power rocketry.
  • dbcook/openrocket-database for their collection of component presets.
  • The rocketry community — the people who build, test, document and share rocket simulation tools, motor data and real launch results.