[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! ___

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

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

[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

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

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

[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] 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.

Re: [PSAS] project mgmt

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

[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

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,

[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

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

[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

[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

[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

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