Abstract
Current sounding rockets in foreign countries including Japan are launched for the purpose of scientific observation of outer space or upper atmosphere, but are scrapped after completing the missions. Therefore, development of reusable sounding rockets is urgent. The Space Systems Laboratory of Kyushu Institute of Technology has been studying the winged rocket development program as a research subject of fully reusable space transportation systems since 2005.This fiscal year, the flight experiment of a small scaled winged test rocket was conducted for the first time to investigate the attitude controllability of ascent phase. The development of onboard navigation, guidance and control system using navigation data from GPS, air data from pitot tube, attitude data from IMU and recording to ROM was successful. After improving the navigation, guidance and control system, the winged rocket will be launched again to evaluate the total flight control performance from launching to aiming point for recovery.
