All the launch videos (that I know of) are now posted on the wiki on our
launch page! (shift refresh if you don't see them)
http://psas.pdx.edu/lv2c_launchdata-2010-06-27/#index4h2
http://psas.pdx.edu/lv2c_launchdata-2010-06-27/#index4h2Before everyone
starts complaining about video formats and
Again, I can't recommend VLC http://www.videolan.org/ enough. It's open
source and just works™.
Also here is the video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKw75YMiLA0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKw75YMiLA0
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Frank Mathew fpmat...@comcast.net wrote:
Yes, and many larger, clustered rockets do this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Solid_Rocket_Booster#Hold-down_posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Solid_Rocket_Booster#Hold-down_postsIt
is more impractical for small rockets because, where you might loose a
tenths of a
and in fact are using their home built submarine to tow the sea-launch
platform. Too much cool stuff.
I've been watching this group for a while now. The launch should be
interesting regardless of what happens.
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Ian Osgood i...@quirkster.com wrote:
Yeah, that is
Could you tell us in two sentences what the MCECS BBQ is? Also where it is?
Regardless, I can likely come by any time and help. I have a laptop,
pictures, and videos.
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Jeremy Booth jboo...@gmail.com wrote:
PSAS has been invited to attend the Annual MCECS BBQ
Well im standing there right now and my service is fine, so is Rob's.
Verizon and ATT respectivly.
On Oct 16, 2010 4:04 PM, ~Me ctr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm basing the service based on last year standing in the trailer and
uwsing al three providers for data connections to access th internet.
They
Hi Students:
I just noticed the Masten Space Systems in Mojave CA has an opening for a
summer intern.
http://masten-space.com/opencats/careers/index.php?m=careersp=showJobID=6
The application is due Midnight on Sunday (the 30th) so you would have to
hurry, but it might be worth a shot (applying
Fixed.
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Jeremy Booth jboo...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been finding that directing outside folks to our youtube page seems
get them pretty excited about the project. It looks like sometime recently
some videos were switched around, and now our main video On Board
FYI
http://www.rocketryplanet.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=3542Itemid=29
100,000 ft is not even space, only a mere 30 km. Note the requirement of
having GPS. Something we should already know how to do.
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-Nathan
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Jamey Sharp ja...@minilop.net wrote:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Nathan Bergey nat...@psas.pdx.edu
wrote:
http://www.rocketryplanet.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid
, Keith Packard kei...@keithp.com wrote:
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:53:51 -0800, Nathan Bergey nat...@psas.pdx.edu
wrote:
Yes, I think the main goal is to get people to think about GPS on
rockets.
Even if we don't make an attempt this should be fun to watch.
More (selfishly) importantly I've
Hey, now that you mention it, we *do* have the code and public data
sources to simulate down to the correlator level if we want to. :-)
Ha, no cheating! Too bad we don't have the time or money to do this though
because it would be a fun project. 100,000 feet is a pretty number. Maybe
when I
I guess you can't wait a week for me to get back? Would be very interested
in the quaternions info. Also I might be able to help a little with the
kenimatics - I'm sure Dan has it covered though.
l sneaked into a suborbital research conference today. At least for the
time being everyone is
of their needs? I
hope you are passing out plenty of PSAS cards!
Ian
On Mar 1, 2011, at 10:28 AM, Nathan Bergey wrote:
I guess you can't wait a week for me to get back? Would be very interested
in the quaternions info...
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dwell time, etc) that these
suborbital folks are desiring? Would our rocket meet any of their needs? I
hope you are passing out plenty of PSAS cards!
Ian
On Mar 1, 2011, at 10:28 AM, Nathan Bergey wrote:
I guess you can't wait a week for me to get back? Would be very interested
Thanks Jamey.
Now I'm going to call it rocket science
Sure, we even have a rocket science page on the
wikihttp://psas.pdx.edu/RocketScience/.
If we keep writing up good content it might even be worthy of the side bar.
After all it's integral to the mission to understand the underlying maths
and
and sharing giant 1960s papers on the subject that were written using
typewriters. (Nathan, if those papers are available publicly, could you post
links please?)
All 17 volumes are here:
Hi All,
Last week we talked about trying to launch mid July in Brothers.
To summarize: We would love to launch again soon. We are not ready to fly a
6DOF rocket yet, but we are desperate to finally fly the flight computer
with the GFEs and sensors and new patch antennas/802.11a. We also want to
Some cool news from the last meeting: on Tuesday Jared shared his progress
on a motorized antenna tracker. He's been working on it all this term and
has posted his work on google code:
http://code.google.com/p/2-axis-trackmaster-psas/
There is code and video on the site, notably this nice video
In a bit of space news that takes longer than a few minutes to watch:
A week-ish ago at the 2011 NSS International Space Development
Conference the president of XCOR Aerospace, Jeff Greason, gave a keynote
that has the rest of the space world talking. It's a 45 minutes long
discussion on
Sorry, we have slightly non-obvious git url's
This should work:
$ git clone git://git.psas.pdx.edu/git/filters
Also we have a wiki page with some PSAS specific git stuff on it:
http://psas.pdx.edu/git/
-Nathan
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:40 PM, W Isaac Carroll icarr...@pobox.com wrote:
On
That would be awesome! Lets aim for 7:00. Right now the weather is looking
really bad, so don't get _too_ excited. But NASA won't scrub for weather
until T-5 minutes so unless it's looks absolutely abysmal I plan to be up
and watching early tomorrow morning.
-N
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:40 AM,
Okay, I hope everyone had a chance to read it! Since we really can't
distribute the article I'm pulling it down now. There will be a link
when it becomes officially available online through Portland Monthly.
-Nathan
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From the internetz:
A small aerospace consulting company SpaceWorks released a small
satellite launch demand projection. Who knows how accurate it is, but
regardless it's interesting and has good information about the history
of small satellite launches and lots of graphs.
Is there a meeting tomorrow. If so, where will it be. A few posts ago
somebody mentioned a pub. ???
We resumed normal meetings (7:00 in 86-01) last week, so yes, we'll be
there tomorrow.
Around Christmas a few of us met up at a pub on Tuesday because there
weren't enough people around for a
This weeks space news:
Stars on Earth?
Don Pettit's (ISS) photos of off shore oil rigs looking like a
constellation of stars, but on Earth
http://blogs.airspacemag.com/pettit/2012/03/14/mar-del-fuego/
ATV Launch to ISS
ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle -- a large cargo ship for the space
more below
-- Forwarded message --
From: Igal Koshevoy i...@pragmaticraft.com
Date: Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 5:13 PM
Subject: PSAS + Open Source Bridge
To: Nathan Bergey nathan.ber...@gmail.com
Nathan,
We're holding the fourth Open Source Bridge conference this year, June
26–29
* Super Draco engine fire
SpaceX's launch escape and landing motor being tested in Texas
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/214831794103664640/photo/1/large
* CS capsule tests
Copenhagen Suborbitals is making progress with their capsule
spacecraft, now officially named Betty Page.
Separation
Attention all rocketeers
Oregon Rocketry has announced their Brothers launch dates for this
year! The early one (in May) is too soon and doesn't fit well with
our schedule.
So we have picked to very next one:
June 2nd, 2013
as our scheduled launch day! If you can, clear that weekend on
Hi all,
I've been thinking for a while that we should move most or all of our
git repos to github.com.
I have a few reasons for this:
1.) Currently we actually have to do work to manage gitweb and user
keys, etc. Not much work I guess, but why do something that someone
else already offers as a
pick you up, just send me your address.
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Dave Camarillo
dave.camari...@gmail.comwrote:
Noon or later works best for me...
On Jun 7, 2013 6:27 PM, Nathan Bergey nat...@psas.pdx.edu wrote:
Hi all,
We need 4 to 5 people to come out to Dave's house tomorrow
Great news!
After an epic hack session last night, in the wee hours of the morning
we successfully demonstrated a running control loop on the new flight
computer framework.
The full data path of all critical systems has now been shown to work
in theory. It remains to be decided what exactly will
We're nearly all packed and ready to leave tomorrow morning!!
If anyone is coming and not on the invite list, let me know as soon as possible.
For those coming: most of us are meeting at Dave's house at 8:00 am to
start the convoy. You don't have convoy with us, you can just show up
at the
Yay!!
If you weren't there, or haven't heard, the launch yesterday was a success!
We came straight off the pad and all the recovery systems worked perfectly.
We got back 100% of the rocket with no obvious damage.
We did get some packets from the flight computer to the ground in flight
with data
Hi All,
If you weren't sure, or perhaps forgot, our target launch date for Launch
11 is *Sunday July 20th.* As always things might change at the least
minute, but we're really going for this weekend.
If you've never been to a launch before what usually happens is we prepare
and pack through the
Thanks!
And to clarify, these are potentially busy public repeaters, *not*
what we will be using for launch coordination.
However, we've got all weekend so some HAM people might be interested
in working them for fun, and with the very large range it might be
useful for the convoy or people
Just a reminder that if anyone doesn't have push access to psas repo's on
github just email me your github user account name! (don't have one??? It's
easy! https://github.com/join )
Totally lost? Check out all the guides and docs on github's site!
https://guides.github.com/
I just quietly released a PSAS blog. We could add a 'GPS' category and
put minutes there. By far the most useful thing would be links to
resources looked at during the lesson. Besides that it could just be a
couple of sentences, e.g., Tonight we talked about Costas loops, look
at this paper
Hi!
We're meeting, we *hope* in 86-01. Andrew and I still can't get in, so
look for us at the bottom of the EB stairwell if 86-01 is locked.
Regular meeting after this at 7:00!
-Nathan
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Cool.
I asked Julie if she actually has them yet. I'll get it if she does
and bring it the next PSAS meeting. Then we can see if we can get
anything installed on it :)
Thanks Philip
-Nathan
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Philip Arola philipar...@hotmail.com wrote:
Looks like the
Hi,
Due to a schedule conflict with a CS program we can't use our usual
room (86-01) tonight, instead we'll be in FAB-150 (upstairs near the
North end of the building).
Also we'll start a little late, there is a class in 150 until 7:05.
-Nathan
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Also cool, I got Sketchfab to work. I converted the Solidworks CAD of
the camera module.
Now you can view the CAD right in the webpage! Fullscreen, look
around, and it also supports VR.
http://psas.pdx.edu/projects/360-camera/#d-model
hashtag vr-all-the-things.
-Nathan
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016
All the message packing unpacking and unit conversion should be
handled by the psas_packet project. I was working on a branch that
included much nicer documentation, but it never got very far.
You can see in the code itself that each field has a units:
I'm hearing upper level winds too high
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Jeremy Louke wrote:
> Boo, launch scrubbed... can anyone confirm it was weather related?
>
> On Jan 10, 2017 12:09 PM, "Andrew Greenberg" wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> Ian just pointed
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