7/12/2022 - The First Meeting

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7/12/2022 - The First Meeting

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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

  • Consider 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-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