Hi everyone! We had a very productive day at Dave's house! Here's some of the highlights:
- We can launch the rocket! We met today's primary mission objective, which was to to set up all of the networks, simulate a rocket launch, turn everything off, and do it again. - We turned on the GPS and ran the GPS message parser on the FC, and then turned on the WiFi and ATV amplifiers. Weirdly, we had a crummy GPS lock the whole time, and the RF amplifiers didn't seem to have much affect either way. - The old LPC-based avionics power system is badly malfunctioning, and we're not sure what to do about it. It's a system that we'll throw out after this launch, so it's not worth putting in that much effort. - Setup is becoming faster and faster. We took about 2 hours to set up the entire launch tower/ground control system, and about an hour to strike it all down. It also takes us only 30-45 minutes to tear down/set up everything in the rocket room and get it out on the roller shelves to a waiting vehicle. - We're better organized. We went through and re-organized all of our boxes and have already pre-loaded Troy's trailer that we're taking with us. Here's our next steps: - Meet tomorrow (Monday) from noon on at PSU and work on FC/FCF code. - Meet Tuesday evening for the final launch logistics. Andrew -- ------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Greenberg Portland State Aerospace Society (http://psas.pdx.edu/) and...@psas.pdx.edu C: 503.708.7711 ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ psas-team mailing list psas-team@lists.psas.pdx.edu http://lists.psas.pdx.edu/mailman/listinfo/psas-team This list's membership is automatically generated from the memberships of the psas-airframe, psas-avionics, and psas-general mail lists. Visit http://lists.psas.pdx.edu to individually subscribe/unsubscribe yourself from these lists.
