/
9/13/2022

This Confluence space has been migrated and is no longer current. The content on this space will no longer be accessible after July 1, 2026.

9/13/2022

Sept 15, 2022

Old Items:

Old Items:

Structures:

  • Design

    • Update OpenRocket

      • Deployable payload

      • Avoid wires passing the reaction wheel

      • Continue CAD

  • Analysis

    • More research into testing ideas 

    • Pick testing to be done

    • make priority list

      • make timeline

  • Manufacturing

    •  Saturday

      • wind test tube CF

        • check materials tonight (tues)

Payload:

  • Decide payload mission and scope of reaction wheel decision: Airbrakes!!!

  • Payload weekly meeting

  • Once mission is decided create timeline 

  • Start design this Saturday and establish the goal (data collection)

Avionics:

  • finish block

  • Pick components or other mods

yev to do 101 for payload and av bay design

 

Reaction Wheel:

  • Generate timeline

  • Finish first prototype 

  • Find machining help 

  • Research max spin failure mode

  • Research effects of torsion

  • Research moving wheel away from the center

  • RESEARCH

 

Topic

Finished from Last Week

Blockers

Action Items for this Week

Topic

Finished from Last Week

Blockers

Action Items for this Week

Structures

  • Manufacture

    • Finished setting up the x-winder

    • more research into tensile testing of epoxy joints

    • switched out squeegee for rubber

    • Talked to jake about wind about some fancy stuff 

  • Design

    • CAD started 

    • Basic structure finished

  • lost the cap to mandrel

  • g-code troubleshoot

  • Analysis  @William Beckson (RIT Student) 

    • Tensile epoxy testing

    • Make samples

    • Major Timeline

    • MEET WITH GRACE CUZ SHE IS BEING A DIC

  • Manufacture @Alex Durand (RIT Student)  

    • wind a tube

    • Look into getting better fiberglass and materials

    • Major Timeline

    • Decide go no go date for smooth rocket tube based on when bought tubes would come in @Alex Speyer (RIT Student) 

  • Design @Jake Halpern (RIT Student)  

    • Redo OpenRocket

    • Start CAD layout and space allocation

    • Major Timeline

    • Set up meeting to get up to date on payload layout @Alex Speyer (RIT Student)

Payload

  • At weekly meeting decided passive payload deployment and changed drogue to streamer to avoid collision/tangle

  • Made general rocket layout

  • Rought Electronics BOM

  • Payload 101

  • Need eyes for design not really a blocker

  • Working on rough layout of CAD this Saturday

  • Reduce electronics

  • Sin wave testing so we can look at acceleration

  • Major timeline

  • Access wind tunnel @Grace Dertinger (RIT Alumni) 

Avionics 

  • Rough block diagrams 

  • onboarded some members

  • Been working on selecting components 

  • Worked on string library and networking stack 

 

  • Final check block diagrams 

  • Power allocation for power mod

  • Major timeline

  • Ave bay 101

Reaction Wheel

  • Alan joined and he is going to help with machining 

  • Measurement filtering 

 

  • Set up Major timeline

  • Measurement filtering 

Other

 

 

  • Official timeline of major accomplishments for sub teams put together @Alex Speyer (RIT Student) 

  • PDR template @Alex Speyer (RIT Student) 

  • Test flight cost and backups @Alex Speyer (RIT Student) 

  • LaTeX template and examples @Yevgeniy Gorbachev (RIT Student)