Team Lead Meeting - Monday - Flight Director's Handbook
- Still need Structures, Imaging, and L&R Manager
- Semester Plan
- Prelaunch
- Show new team members your hardware / software
- Explain to them what your team does and how your team’s role fits into launch day
- Make sure you have experienced people working on flight critical tasks
- Begin work on team projects
- Launch
- Fishnauts
- Still need to touch base with Marc about Snowflake specifics
Class - Wednesday - Go over a basic launch day
- Timeline
- ~3:30 AM - Arrive at Ham Shack
- ~4:00 AM
- ~6:00 AM – Arrive at launch site
- Check for overhead obstructions (such as power lines)
- Begin to set up your equipment
- Ensure tracking equipment is functioning
- Begin to fill up balloon
- String together balloon train
- ~7:00 AM – Launch payload
- Try to launch shortly after sunrise when the surface winds are calmest
- Have tracking vehicles head towards expected landing site, and adjust as needed
- ~8:15 AM – Balloon bursts, payload begins to descend
- ~9:30 AM – Payload returns to surface
- Hopefully the tracking team is not too far behind to make a quick recovery
- ~10:30 AM – Hopefully the payload should be recovered by this time
- ~12:00 PM – Return to Ham Shack
- Come Prepared
- Wear jeans, boots (or old shoes)
- Bring jackets (will be very cold in the mornings)
- Bring water, sandwiches for lunch
- How to choose where / when to launch
- Do not rush onto people's property
- We have to introduce ourselves and gain permission to access their land
- We expect to fly
- Fishnauts
- Snowflake
- Still trying to figure out what we will be doing exactly
- Show new team HAM shack/ECE Lab
- ISGC Presentation next week
- Susie Johnson: Introduction to the space industry
- EP 206 5:00-6:30 PM
- Pizza party!!!
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