2022-08-8 Payload Meeting
- Aaron Chan (RIT Student)
- Yevgeniy Gorbachev (RIT Student)
Date
Attendees
Yevgeniy Gorbachev (RIT Student)
Wynter M. Petersen (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 |