Rocket Calculator: ApogeeField

ApogeeField is an offline flight calculator for low and mid-power model rocketry. Enter your rocket (dry mass, body diameter, drag coefficient, launch-guide length) and pick a motor, and it predicts your apogee, the best ejection delay, max velocity, and rail-exit velocity right at the pad — with no signal, no account, and no tracking.

WHAT IT DOES
- Apogee, max velocity and full altitude / velocity / acceleration flight curves — free.
- Recommended ejection delay: ideal coast time mapped to the nearest delay you can actually buy, with the offset in seconds.
- Rail-exit velocity with a configurable safety threshold, so you can judge whether the rocket will leave the rail under control.
- Compare motors side by side and export your flight card and saved rockets.
- Built-in motor database (thrust curves and certified statistics) plus import of your own .eng / .rse files.
- Switch freely between metric and imperial units.

HOW THE MODEL WORKS (and its limits)
ApogeeField runs a deterministic 1-DOF (vertical, point-mass, with launch-angle cosine) flight integration: thrust-curve integration, variable-mass burn (propellant mass is subtracted as impulse is consumed), quadratic drag, and an ISA standard-atmosphere density model, coasting to apogee at the velocity zero-crossing. Every assumption is shown on the results screen so you can line your inputs up against OpenRocket or your own altimeter data.

It is an engineering estimate for hobby use — a starting point, not a guarantee. The model does not account for wind, airframe stability, roll, or weathercocking, so real flights will differ. Always verify with an altimeter. This is not a safety, airworthiness, or legal document, and it does not replace the NAR / Tripoli safety code or local airspace rules — follow them.

PRIVACY & PRICING
100% offline. No account, no network requests, no analytics, no ads. Your rockets and imported motor files stay on your device. One-time unlock — no subscription. Motor data are numerical facts drawn from publicly submitted thrust-curve files and NAR / Tripoli / CAR certification statistics, stored in our own format with the source and database version shown in the app.