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•  Stability (Mass, Moments, Flight Profile)
• Thermal (Flight Profile)
• Aerodynamic (Altitude Target)
• Structural (Flight Profile)

There are also dynamic considerations. The vehicle should have an overall low pitch-roll couple to avoid 'coning' failures. The natural frequency all structural members should either be well damped or far from any frequencies excited in flight.

Stability

Main Article: Stability

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Main Article: Fin Aerodynamics

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Flight

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Regimes

Chord is the primary driver of profile drag

Subsonic

Skin friction? Induced drag?

Supersonic

Shock impingement (tribal knowledge or nonsense?)

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