High-power rocketry

Software and electronics for people who build their own.

RocketSalvo makes tools for designing and flying high-power rockets: RustPEP for propellant evaluation, and MAD, a magnetic apogee detector now in development.

Explore RustPEPSee the MAD project
RustPEP Formulation page: a searchable ingredient list, a three-ingredient recipe, chamber and exit pressure fields, and result tiles for specific impulse, characteristic velocity, chamber temperature, density, gamma and molecular weight.

Products

One for the bench, one for the airframe.

Software

Version 0.1.0

RustPEP

Propellant evaluation for rocket motor design

A complete rewrite of the classic PROPEP program in Rust, with a modern Windows interface. Enter a propellant recipe and get chamber temperature, specific impulse, characteristic velocity and combustion products, ready to carry into BurnSim.

  • Chamber temperature, Isp, c*, density and gamma for any recipe
  • Library of 1,000+ ingredients, plus your own
  • Mix, pressure and nozzle studies with charts
  • Burn-rate fitting from BATES test firings
About RustPEPDocumentation

Electronics

In development

MAD

Magnetic Apogee Detector

A modern interpretation of Robert Galejs’ magnetometer-only apogee detector. MAD senses the rocket’s orientation against the Earth’s magnetic field to detect apogee. It is prototype hardware under development and is not flight qualified.

  • Magnetometer-only apogee sensing
  • Hardware arm jumper that firmware cannot bypass
  • On-board flight logging with USB-C retrieval
  • Rev A prototype: not flight qualified, not for sale
About MADDocumentation

MAD in development

An apogee detector designed around its safety states.

Arming requires the physical jumper, stable power and capacitor readings, a qualification delay and a post-arm inhibit. A single firing pulse is followed by lockout until reset.

  1. SAFEARM jumper absent. Outputs held off.
  2. QUALIFYJumper present. Power checked through a qualification delay.
  3. ARMEDBank charges. Orientation watched after a post-arm inhibit.
  4. FIRINGA single firing pulse.
  5. LOCKOUTNo further firing until reset.

FAULTAny detected fault forces this state from any other.

In developmentRev A is prototype hardware. It is not flight qualified and not for sale.

How we work

Built the way a flyer would want it built.

Honest numbers

RustPEP reports ideal thermochemical predictions and says so. Burn rate comes from your own test firings, not from a guess.

Safety in hardware

MAD’s arm jumper sits in the charge and fire paths themselves. Firmware cannot bypass it.

Credit where it is due

Both products build on published work: the PEP program, NASA CEA data, and Robert Galejs’ magnetic apogee detector.

Start with the documentation.

Quick start, what the numbers mean, and the MAD design notes.

Read the docsDownloads