Room preparation

• Make sure you know the room’s AV setup

  • Is there a standing mic?

  • Is it working/any good?

  • Is there a camera?

• Reserve 30 min early (if feasible) to set up

Zoom setup

• Test mic and camera

  • Get Launch’s conference mic (puck) if needed

• Designate Zoom handler

  • Use Zoom’s Q&A feature to organize questions and responses

  • Repeat room questions to Zoom before presenter answers

  • Read Zoom questions after room questions to room

  • Not SME

Dumb things we forget sometimes

Use this as a checklist while reviewing the slides. Feel free to expand.

Structures

• Avionics interface

  • Space allocation

  • Holes for arming & venting

  • Alignment geometry

• Payload interface

  • Space allocation 

  • Holes for arming & venting (if applicable)

  • Alignment geometry

• Tube and joint specifications

  • Epoxy joint (coupler epoxied to which of two tubes?)

  • Metal screw joint (not separated in flight)

  • Shear pin joint (separated in flight)

  • Radio transparent y/n

Payload

• Wiring diagrams

• Connection method (connector model, crimped or soldered, etc.) for every connection in a wiring diagram

• Power drain timeline

• Data capture timeline

Deployed payload (same as Avionics COTS requirements)

• COTS flight computer selection

• GPS tracker selection

  • Range estimate

• Recovery wiring diagram

  • GPS power

  • Altimeter power

  • Dual-event dual-redundant altimeter & charge wiring

• Vent hole sizing determination

• Arming holes & alignment method

Avionics

• COTS flight computer selection

• GPS tracker selection

  • Range estimate

• Recovery wiring diagram

  • GPS power

  • Altimeter power

  • Dual-event dual-redundant altimeter & charge wiring

• Connection method (connector model, crimped or soldered, etc.) for every connection in a wiring diagram

• Power drain timeline

  • COTS flight computers

  • GPS tracker

All SRAD Electronics

• Requirements

• Components

• Board-level block diagram

• System-level wiring diagram

• Flight state machine (+event detection schemes)

  • Failure risks in flight risk assessment (faulty event detection)

• Data capture timeline & budget

• Power drain timeline & budget

Recovery

• Parachute & line diagram

• Recovery deployment graphic

  • Shows what the rocket looks like going from not deployed to drogue to main

• FoS table for recovery hardware

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