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Category

10K Pros:

  • More Experience
  • Spreads focus to detail and payload / components
  • Lower cost
  • Allows for more complicated systems
  • Able to use time and efforts to improve processes, efficiency, documentation

10K Cons:

  • We have competed in the category before
  • Not as high or as fast

30K Pros:

  • New Category
  • New challenges aerodynamically

30K Cons:

  • Higher cost
  • little experience
  • less ability to focus on detail
  • less involved payload
  • design challenges
  • don't know what we don't know

10K or bust

Regular diameter

form for who will be here each semester - how many hours dedicated

Schedule


  • Weekly meetings
    • initial 1 meeting day and 1 working day
  • PDR, CDR, FDR
  • Calendar posted
  • Transfer Calendar -AS
Payload
  • Ideas:
    • Battery Lab - Matthew Ganter mjgvpr@rit.edu
    • Nose Cone Payload
      • More SRAD video system components
    • Diffraction Solar Sails - Amber Dubill
    • Recovery payload
    • Smoke flare "project shooting star"
    • Recovery assist
  • Technical / Scientific Benefits
  • WorkloadConsider workload
  • Improve assembly and integration
  • Something that helps with a 30k rocket
  • Reach out to battery lab -AS
  • further researching solar sails opportunity
Avionics
  • Marginal mechanical improvements
  • backplane flight computer

DRI Interest
  • If interested in a position, please reach out to me by next meeting
    • Analysis
    • Structures
    • Recovery
    • Avionics
    • Payload

Name
  • Intrepid
  • Phoenix
  • Valkyrie
  • Gotta Blast
  • Aurora
    •  Intrepid-I like this name 
    •  Phoenix
    •  Valkyrie
    •  Gotta Blast
    •  Aurora

    Kong (king of the skies)

    no self-serious names

    Form questions
    • Student or co-op
    • In Rochester or not
    • Allocated time per week