Team Lead Meeting - Tuesday - Set up team lead meeting time
- 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
- Basically, get your new team members brought up to speed,
and get ready to fly
- Launch
- Will Fishnauts be an option?
- Still need to touch base with Marc about Snowflake
specifics
- Post Launch
- Focus on gathering data, create presentations
- Tutorials
- Basic tutorials
- tutorials for tracking, Comp E, EE, ME
- Everyone in class must complete, have 3 weeks of round
robin events
- Projects to work on for spring semester
- Parachute deployment device
- GPS Data logging for tracking vehicles
- Send GPS over Bluetooth to laptops and transmit over ham
band
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
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