Date

08 Aug 2022

Attendees

Aaron Chan (RIT Student)

Yevgeniy Gorbachev (RIT Student)

caw5317

Wynter Brigitta-Maita (RIT Alumni)

William Beckson (RIT Student)

Will Merges (RIT Student)

Alec Paul (RIT Student)

Alex Speyer (RIT Student)

Dante Sivo (RIT Student)

Discussion Topics

Topic

Notes

Smoke system + backplane

https://eg-products.com/products/smoke/eg18

Two EG-18 in the payload of different colors, triggered by the backplane at apogee and main altitude. Serves as a visible end-to-end test of the deployment board.

Need to consider directing the smoke. We don't know its temperature; might ignite ematches, which are made of BP.

SRAD smoke grenade not hard and gives us control over the shape.

Might count as an energetic, not risk-free as concerns IREC rules

Permittivity measurement

Air-core parallel plate capacitor's capacitance depends on relative permittivity, which depends on free stream density and temperature

Requires really precise measurement because the relative permittivity of air at STP is already 1.0006

Steerable parachute

Parachute with shroud lines wound around motors

Action Items

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