Re: [PSAS] Shuttle Launch Party
I'm in2 it. Gotta be at a meeting at 10 at PSU in any event... On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Nathan Bergey nat...@psas.pdx.edu wrote: I was hoping that a few people might want to get together to watch the very last shuttle launch ever live on screen somewhere. This is a pretty historic event for rocketry and for humans in general. Unfortunately it's going to be early in the morning here. The target launch time is 8:21:46 am Friday morning. There is a lot going on in the last few hours before launch, so if anyone does want to meet up, at least an hour before launch would be a good idea. Reply if you want to meet up, and if anyone can get us into the conference room where we normally meet that would be awesome because I know it has a projector and internet. Otherwise I highly recommend everyone setting apart some time on Friday morning and tune into http://www.spacevidcast.com/ and watch the launch live. They're already streaming coverage 24/7 now. As I write this the countdown clock is at T-13:34:15 and counting. Also watch your email because I will update with any information about scrubs or off-nominal conditions. -Nathan ___ 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. ___ 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.
[PSAS] dynamics, required reading
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mgFdn4lfrE (it's only like three minutes and totally worth your time. plus, the dynamics are outrageous.) ___ 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.
[PSAS] innogrant results
Ahoy! Radio tower is a no-go for external funding, liquid propulsion is go for funding. --bk ___ 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.
[PSAS] imagine this: a joke
A 747's pilot and copilot both have heart attacks mid-flight. A flight attendant gets on the PA to ask if anyone knows how to fly a plane. Two Polish men stand up, saying that they're crop dusters. The flight attendant escorts them to the cockpit. They stare at all the levers and buttons in clear befuddlement, until one turns to the flight attendant and says, I'm sorry. We're just two simple poles in a complex plane. ___ 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.
Re: [PSAS] New room for Saturday meeting
I...am going to sleep in. On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Jeremy Booth jboo...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds good. Let's meet up in the fishbowl, we can hit any quick questions, then fork for independent work. On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Andrew Louie aloui...@gmail.com wrote: Long and i will still meet up and work on some controls practice problems. whoever wants to join can. We will be in the FAB fish bowl at 9am. On 3/5/11, I kirk...@pdx.edu wrote: Dave's not available tomorrow, and neither is Marius or Rob, and Chris is probably tied up as well. Jeremy and I were thinking about meeting up to discuss our project, but I don't have any controls stuff to go over tomorrow because I'd rather wait until the whole crew is present. So, If Jeremy is up for it, I'll be meeting up with him. Otherwise, I wont be coming into Portland Tomorrow. I'll check email when I get up in the morning. ~D Quoting Andrew Louie aloui...@gmail.com: I wasn't able to get access to the room in time in time. Are we going to meet at the PSBA tomorrow? On 3/4/11, Jeremy Booth jboo...@gmail.com wrote: Andrew: Probably a good thing for you to look into. I understand the room is part of the CS department. Marius: Since we are starting to have presentations on various topics at the Tuesday general meetings, maybe you could work with someone to arrange an intro to Kalman Filters on a Tuesday? It could be a good primer if we ever do get an outside speaker to present on Kalman Filters, and you'd get to help set the time, ensuring it works with your schedule. On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Andrew Louie aloui...@gmail.com wrote: how hard would it be for me to get badge access to 86-01? i have access to the building and labs. On 3/3/11, Jeremy Booth jboo...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't reserved anything, but I'll try to grab 86-01. I don't know that we have badge access to 86-01, so that's a consideration, but I'll make arrangements for this upcoming Saturday. I will likely not be available the next Saturday. I'll try to reserve the room, but I won't be available to get people in if we don't have badge access. We've generally met in 150 or at the PSBA. Side note: I picked up the 2 wandering posters, and have them in my office. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Jamey Sharp ja...@minilop.net wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Andrew Louie aloui...@gmail.com wrote: Do we have the new room reserved for Saturday? If you mean FAB 86-01, Josh and I didn't reserve it for any time other than Tuesdays. I'd bet nobody else reserves it on weekends, so you could just show up there and take over until somebody tells you to stop. Or you could talk to department staff to officially reserve it. What space have you been using for the control theory class, and what time have you been meeting? Jamey ___ 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. ___ 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. ___ 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. ___ 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. ___ 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
Re: [PSAS] meeting tonight, including geometry/physics discussion
I have a copy of the same book Dan recommended for quaternions in the mail, so while I'm looking forward to your condensation of the important bits, I'm going to hold my own questions off for a few weeks while my book arrives and I wrap my head around the math. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Jamey Sharp ja...@minilop.net wrote: First off: Like last week, we're meeting in FAB 155, not the CS lounge/fishbowl. We're going to look into reserving FAB 86-01 for future meetings, and we'll announce tonight if that worked out. Last week Ben and I chatted about taking an hour of the regular meetings to explore rocket physics and, at his request, geometry topics---first up, quaternions. So let's try that tonight. During tonight's regular weekly meeting, from 8pm to 9pm anyone who's interested is invited to chat about rocket physics: how physicists model the forces on a rocket in the abstract, and how a practical computer model of those forces should work. I took some time last week to wrap my head around quaternions so I'm prepared to discuss what they are, why you want to use them in practical physics models, and how the important operations on them work. If we have time, I'd like to follow that up with discussion of how to implement forces that cause rotation in rockets. Several people in PSAS have been trying to explain this stuff to me over a period of years and I'm hoping to get some of it to stick, preferably in the form of executable code. See you tonight! Jamey ___ 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. ___ 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.
[PSAS] torsion rod
oooh oooh oooh also if I can borrow the torsion rod from whoever currently is caretaking, the ROV team would be even further in PSAS' debt... ___ 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.
[PSAS] shuttle launch from a passenger plane
http://patrickmylund.com/blog/catching-the-space-shuttle-discovery-launch-from-the-air/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+patrickmylund+%28Patrick+Mylund+Nielsen%29 ___ 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.
Re: [PSAS] project mgmt
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that we should switch knowledge capture over to some new system. I do think that the wiki is total *crap* at managing goals, generating calendars and getting tasks, subtasks and dependencies cleanly delimited. If you get an install running, would you let me know? I'd like to put the motor project on it and experiment with task delegation for 6dof there as well. It's worth talking about in a group meeting though. On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Nathan Bergey nathan.ber...@gmail.com wrote: I think this is a great idea and I can help. I've been looking at some free hosted suites but I'm not in love with any of them. But I have used redmine once. It seemed nice. On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Benjamin Kaplin ben...@gmail.com wrote: I am interested in getting us onto a project management suite (for resumé padding purposes etceteras plus also wiki = yucki). The ROV team uses Redmine, and from the little bit that I've spent poking around in it, adding tasks, assigning tasks to myself etc, it looks like the bees knees. http://www.redmine.org/ Does anyone have any input on this? ___ 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. ___ 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. ___ 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.
[PSAS] other rocketeers musing about gps
http://unreasonablerocket.blogspot.com/2011/02/gps-progress.html ___ 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.
[PSAS] project mgmt
I am interested in getting us onto a project management suite (for resumé padding purposes etceteras plus also wiki = yucki). The ROV team uses Redmine, and from the little bit that I've spent poking around in it, adding tasks, assigning tasks to myself etc, it looks like the bees knees. http://www.redmine.org/ Does anyone have any input on this? ___ 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.
Re: [PSAS] SolidWorks 2010-2011 academic licenses in
I believe that I remember asking for twenty, but have no real clue. On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Andrew Greenberg and...@psas.pdx.eduwrote: Hi everyone, We just received the (2) CDs for SolidWorks. Apparently we use these two CDs to install, and then we have as many licenses as team members (Ben, how many team members do we have?) I'll bring them Tuesday - see you then! Thanks, Andrew -- --- Andrew Greenberg Portland State Aerospace Society (http://psas.pdx.edu/) and...@psas.pdx.edu P: 503.788.1343 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. ___ 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.
Re: [PSAS] Fwd: staging designs, code inspection
I have some questions about masses as defined as well. If the proposed numbers mean anything, I'm not sure our final mass can be 1.22 kg. We need weight of last stage tanks, motor(s), etc. with the 1kg cube-sat. This is what I was talking to Dave about this past Saturday - I'll explain the estimation procedure to anyone interested tonight. I'm actively interested in its flaws and other flaws like moving through lower atmo at 3000 m/s. ___ 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.
[PSAS] Fwd: staging designs, code inspection
REPLY TO ALL SHOULD BE DEFAULT SETTING. -- Forwarded message -- From: Benjamin Kaplin bkap...@pdx.edu Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:11:40 -0800 Subject: Re: [PSAS] staging designs, code inspection To: David Harris dharris...@gmail.com the code is aero model independent: plug in stages and delta v for each stage, isp and fif, and it spits back masses. Aero modeling should inform delta v apportioning. delta v for leo is like 7500 (?) m/s, so there's a fat ol' margin in those examples. I'd like to discuss aero modeling at the next meeting (what it gets us, what we can engineer around, extreme values, max q and whatnot. On 1/31/11, David Harris dharris...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ben, What aero model are you using and how are you calculating the gravity turn and angle of attack losses? Or at this point are you just adding some margin to the delta v target figure and just approximating? David On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Benjamin Kaplin bkap...@pdx.edu wrote: Ex: - m_i1 Mass of 1st stage only, including fuel - m_f2 Mass of 2nd stage only, excluding fuel This comment pointed out to me that the script was really only useful for designing a particular stage. So, to provide a more general tool, I rewrote the script. It should be a lot more user-friendly now. It allows for cool things like specifying the supportmass/fuelmass ratio on a per-stage basis. Enjoy! ___ 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. ___ 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.
Re: [PSAS] staging designs, code inspection
Ex: - m_i1 Mass of 1st stage only, including fuel - m_f2 Mass of 2nd stage only, excluding fuel This comment pointed out to me that the script was really only useful for designing a particular stage. So, to provide a more general tool, I rewrote the script. It should be a lot more user-friendly now. It allows for cool things like specifying the supportmass/fuelmass ratio on a per-stage basis. Enjoy! ___ 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.
Re: [PSAS] Weather advisory, Tuesday 11-Jan-2011 meeting canceled?
Well, those of us willing to brave the conditions will be here - and some in fact are already! On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 6:21 PM, James Perkins ja...@loowit.net wrote: On 01/11/2011 06:13 PM, Glenn LeBrasseur wrote: I just talked to Andrew (6 pm) and he thinks the weather is bad enough to cancel tonight's meeting. I'm in SE Portland right now and there is freezing rain coming down, and it seems to be sticking on the road. Temperature is 30 deg F here. It certainly could get bad enough. I'm net control for KD7ZDO at the moment, Clackamas ARES, we're running a weather reporting net (I'm running it from my home station - listen to 147.12 to hear me, or 147.32 for all NW Oregon/District 1). It seems to be getting colder with light precip everywhere. Near the gorge people are getting some icing. Cheers, James KN1X -- James Perkins ja...@loowit.net KN1X www.loowit.net/~james 28950 S Girard Rd, Colton, OR 97017+1.971.344.3969 mobile ___ 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. ___ 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.
[PSAS] new NASA centennial challenges - nanosattelite challenge
*The Nano-Satellite Launch Challenge*: to place a small satellite into Earth orbit, twice in one week. The prize purse is $2 million. http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ipp/innovation_incubator/centennial_challenges/cc_info_detail.html The race is on! ___ 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.
