FIS

IRIS is a vertical integrated static fire test stand for LRI’s IPA-LOX ablative engines. IRIS is designed to mimic the structural and fluid line design of LRI’s future liquid flight vehicle, allowing us to get a head start with optimizing the systems we will eventually need on a flying vehicle.

This project brings together plumbing layout, structural design, and systems integration in one hardware platform that can support future engine testing and overall vehicle development.

The team is also working on preliminary flight vehicle design, especially the internal structures and mounting strategies needed to support future propulsion and avionics systems.

That includes bracket design, structural analysis, and electronics packaging work that helps turn high-level vehicle concepts into hardware that can actually be built and integrated.

Alongside structural work, the team is also building out the electronics and plumbing architecture that supports these systems in practice. That includes enclosure layout, routing, and interface planning between the fluid system and the control hardware.

These design studies help make sure future test and flight systems are not only functional on paper, but organized and integration-ready as the hardware matures.