Currently, drones assist in the following operations:

• Altimeter accuracy testing

• Recovery system testing

  • Parachute Deployment

I am aiming to modify drone for higher max takeoff weight to carry up to 2 kg flight vehicles

An ambitious goal I plan to undertake is launching a low powered rocket from a drone. 

The most reasonable method I have come up with is suspending the rocket under the drone and dropping it with a servo release mechanism, then bailing the drone by making it rocket(pun intended) away from the site. One of the main difficulties is there will be a high abort rate for the rocket if its pitch or yaw exceed 26 degrees from normal, which is likely since it will fall for over a second before the motors ignite. To solve this, I will likely have to move the center of gravity very close to the center of the rocket and run fin simulations to make sure it falls more or less straight in the presence of mild wind disturbances.