IREC

@Ares Bustinza Nguyen (RIT Student)

• FDR in 2 weeks

• Talks with Mike about motor purchasing

• Meeting with Alan and Leads today about risks about Motor

• Focusing on sourcing and transportation of motor
  
  

• Progress Report #2

• Reformatting the tech report to include all new requirements from ESRA
  
  

Space Race (Team A)

@Caden Bickel (RIT Student)

• Worked on L1 build day info

  • L1 BOM is close to finished

• Icarus CDR is scheduled for Feb 21, 2026

Space Race (Team B)

@Harvey Ni (RIT Student)

• Talked about build days when
  
  

Liquid Propulsion

@Riley Quinn (RIT Student) @Hayden Quinn (RIT Student)

• Big semester schedule somewhere

• Bottle filling hopefully happening today

• 2 more machining operations

• Everything has been purchases except for IPA
  
  

Solid Propulsion

@Christian Freitag (RIT Student) @Claire Virnoche (RIT Student)

• Starting manufacturing

• Meeting with Scott on Tuesday to get some confirmation form EHS

  • need scott to poke

• Working on nozzle designs and future new mix chemistry
  
  

Avionics (Hardware)

@Mary Dertinger (RIT Student)

• Reviewed payvionics scehematics

• payvionics now starting layout

• Liquids board layout is good, going to do another looksies and see if folks from liquids wants to review

• Ethernet switch finalized chip

• Bi plane layout continuing

• Paired young gremlins with old gremlins which worked out pretty well

• ground station certainly is there

• Did a rev on deployment module over break, added servo control, flash and some sensors but likely wont order anytime soon bc no money
  
  

Avionics (Software)

@Richard Sommers (RIT Student)

• 2 new members !!

• backplane p much ready for full testing

• payload software skeleton built

• payload gsw is underway

• airbrakes are rotating
  
  

Test backplane

Figure out more about quaternion integration

Implement Kalman Filter

Develop Payload SW and GSW further

HAB Team

@Braxton L. Crandall (RIT Student)

I slept in the snow just a bit too long

• Ordered a replacement tank of helium (pending Jan and Stephen using credit card)

• Set a record for shortest HAB meeting of the year (13 minutes)
  
  

it was very peaceful… worth

• reset for another attempt using (ostensibly) the same payloads.

• Identify any “quick fixes” that could be properly amended before the next attempt

• Amend the quick fixes so they are permanent fixes

President

@Alexis Smith (RIT Student)

• Imagine RIT proposal has been done- please fill out exhibitor information

• Wiki Migration on Feb 16, 2026

• RIT 365

• Events for spring?

• Stolls?

• Important dates in Calender?

• I need to move up spring launch date

• Level 1 days

• We have no fucking money

• I need to send out FDR invitations

• Sign up for sections at general

school thingS

Director of Competition Operations

@Alan Grilley (RIT Student)

Paint booth updates

UB SEDS to Design Reviews

Constitution Bylaw Amendment

Director of Research and Development

@Jonathan Godfrey (RIT Student)

Treasurer

@Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

• Just got all the financial statements for October, November, and December (roar day money!)

• KGCOE money was not on the statements

• Venessa OOO until June 30th

  • not really

  • she just didnt update her automatic OOO email reply

• When KGCOE money exists we’ll be so rich

  • literally where the heck is it

• Stole our money again

  • Who bought a viola book?
    
    

Director of Sponsorship

@Donovan Barros (RIT Student) @Christian Freitag (RIT Student)

• People still hate emailing me back

• Did get some money

  • Bracalente sent over the $500 they said they would

• NYSG

  • Agreed to give us $1875 out of our $1500 asking

  • Money needs to be spent on IREC/Payload since it does not get officially deposited to us and we need receipts for stuff

  • Gotta talk with Stephen on how we wanna do this bc we have some options

• No one sent updates (except for avi, thank you avi) so there are no newsletters for the last couple 2025 months, will be working on a new years thing tho so SEND UPDATES PLEASE

• I feel like I sent updates - mary

  • good point, will update
    
    

Director of Public Relations

@Clare McMahon (RIT Student) @Catrice Taft (RIT Student)

• posted first meeting
  
  

Secretary

@Emma Ferraro (RIT Student) @Caitlin Riley (RIT Student)

• Confirmed that we have enough cords for this years seniors