Ann 12/28/2022 - Meeting Notes

Last Weeks Meeting Updates: 

COTS Avionics:

  • Picked: Arming switches, load cell, flight computer, working on antenna and batteries

Airbrake:

  • Picked: 20kg motor 
  • Airbrake CAD is finished minus holes for bushings and newest load cell

Ave bay:

  • No work done, need other components
  • Height was updated (have lots of room now)

Recovery:

  • Bay size changed to 100 mm

SCRAP

  • Working away

Updates: 

AV Bay: 

  • Mary met with Yev about last years payload design

Airbreak: 

Recovery: 

COTS Avionics: 

SCRAP:

  • Worked on circuit

This weeks TODOs:

AV Bay: Mary Dertinger (RIT Student) Jonah Gimmi (RIT Student) Louis Fleisher (RIT Student) 

  • Start to create components in CAD 
  • Start to fit and mount components in 100mm section 
  • Remove rounded corners on ave bay columns/bottom plate
  • Add fiber glass walls - attach with bolts 

Airbreak: Grace Dertinger (RIT Alumni) 

  • Put new load cell in CAD
  • Bushing holes for press fit
  • Double check airbrake design and fitting
  • Fix motor to mid plate (hole in front of the motor)

Recovery: Grace Dertinger (RIT Alumni) Louis Fleisher (RIT Student) 

  • Pick out chute
  • Pick out line cutter
  • Snatch force
  • Where to reef the chute
  • FEA on snatch force
  • Wire holes in recovery bay
  • Split the recovery bay box into walls 

COTS Avionics: Louis Fleisher (RIT Student) 

  • Update BOM

SCRAP: Jim Heaney (RIT Student) 

  • Please keep working on it  
  • Try to get a detailed power budget 
  • Get a footprint of SCRAP for CAD