Medium Challenges

Medium challenges are a task or puzzle that is right-sized for the effort between an evening up to as much as a weekend hackathon.

Orbital Dynamics

PSU is trying to put a microSat into orbit. Given the weight of the launch vehicle, figure out very roughly what amount of thrust over what burntime would be sufficient to reach both altitude and speed to enter orbit. How many orders of magnitune away is the capabilities of the current vehicle?