Vehicles and technologies that grant invaluable and unique experience to 100+ Georgia Tech students every day. This includes four different vehicles, an afterburner, and a ground station.
Vehicles
GTSC has 4 various vehicle programs that span various mission requirements. Because GTSC does not operate under the ruleset of any specific competition, we are able to own the design of our aircraft, from requirements to testing, something unheard of at the college level.
The Prototype Program centers around testing new aircraft technologies in a cost effective manor. The Kestrel Program focuses on developing high-speed and maneuverable aircraft - introducing us to a unique mission concept that trades aerodynamic performance to structural integrity at all flight conditions. The Record Breaker Program aims to iteratively break the Guinness World Record for the fastest jet-powered, remote control aircraft, giving the team experience designing aircraft in the transonic speed regime. The Supersonic Program is the culmination of all other GTSC programs, as our experience help us to eventually become the first student-led team in the world to design, build, and fly a supersonic sUAS.
Apart from our vehicles, we have two main large-scale technological capabilities that enhance future work and allow for modularity in our testing.
The Experimental Reheat Program (EXR) focuses on building and testing an afterburning propulsion system that will propel our future supersonic vehicle. Currently the team is working to design and test a ground version of our afterburner - offering the experience and data necessary to design a flight-ready afterburner at this scale. Automatic Relay Ground and Utility Station (ARGUS) provides GTSC with a modular ground station that we can connect all our aircraft to, regardless of the test site and vehicle. This grants us flexibility to design our aircraft in a way that will always connect with ARGUS, giving us confidence in our command and control across multiple vehicle programs.
