Team Description
The Structures team main responsibility is for development and testing of the capsule. Other responsibilities include launch day set up, ordering helium, managing the program's cold chamber, rigging the balloon train, and filling the balloon.
Post launch responsibilities include equipment inventory, problem solving, and repairing damaged equipment.
Team Members
Name
|
Role
|
Kyle Peterson |
Team Lead
|
Marina Parreira |
|
Coleton Bailey
|
|
Alex Fraser
|
|
Chris Fraser
|
|
Stafford-Ames Morse
|
|
Jt Sutton
|
|
Connor Trulock
|
|
Hunter Trulock | |
|
|
Current Projects
Project Name
|
Team Members
|
Description
|
Thermal Integrity Testing
|
Brenden, Kyle, Stephen
|
Test multiple sealing options on Sharp Chedder and the Cutdown capsules in the cold chamber in order to determine effect on equipment.
|
Cutdown System
|
Kevin Witkoe, JT
|
Redesign the layout of the cutdown system to reduce size and weight. Develop a balloon train model to reduce the effect the cutdown capsule has on the parachute during descent.
|
Camera Stabilizer
|
Jake Liddicoat, Martin
|
Develop a gyro/flywheel to minimize camera movement during flight.
|
Long Duration Flight
|
Stephen Goodwin
|
Research methods, equipment, and laws pertaining to long duration balloon flights (>12 hrs)
|
Calenderstructures@idahorise.comstructures@idahorise.com Mass SheetMass Sheet, Spring 2013vastmassspring13
Data Archive
Data Links
|
 Updating...
ĉ AsstFlight Director, Sep 25, 2013, 5:22 PM
ĉ AeroMech Lead, Apr 3, 2013, 3:34 PM
|