[PSAS] Videos are Posted

2010-07-03 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

Re: [PSAS] Trimmed in-flight video

2010-07-03 Thread Nathan Bergey
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:

Re: [PSAS] Sony-sponsored student rocket project

2010-08-04 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

Re: [PSAS] Another rocket project

2010-08-23 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

Re: [PSAS] MCECS BBQ - volunteers?

2010-09-20 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

Re: [PSAS] GPS programs for phones

2010-10-16 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

[PSAS] Masten Summer Intern

2011-01-27 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

Re: [PSAS] youtube page

2011-02-16 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

[PSAS] $5000 prize for 100,000 foot flight

2011-02-28 Thread Nathan Bergey
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. ___ psas-team mailing list

Re: [PSAS] $5000 prize for 100,000 foot flight

2011-02-28 Thread Nathan Bergey
getting on the aRocket list now. Super annoying that it's closed. -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

Re: [PSAS] $5000 prize for 100,000 foot flight

2011-02-28 Thread Nathan Bergey
, 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

Re: [PSAS] $5000 prize for 100,000 foot flight

2011-02-28 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

Re: [PSAS] meeting tonight, including geometry/physics discussion

2011-03-01 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

Re: [PSAS] meeting tonight, including geometry/physics discussion

2011-03-01 Thread Nathan Bergey
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... ___ psas-team mailing list psas-t

Re: [PSAS] meeting tonight, including geometry/physics discussion

2011-03-01 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

Re: [PSAS] rocket science session summary

2011-03-02 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

Re: [PSAS] optimal trajectory dynamics

2011-03-09 Thread Nathan Bergey
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:

[PSAS] Launch Date

2011-05-06 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

[PSAS] Trackmaster Update

2011-05-26 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

[PSAS] Jeff Greason: A Settlement Strategy for NASA

2011-06-04 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

Re: [PSAS] simple three-axis Kalman filter

2011-06-08 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

Re: [PSAS] Shuttle Launch Party

2011-07-07 Thread Nathan Bergey
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,

Re: [PSAS] Portland Monthly Article

2011-11-23 Thread Nathan Bergey
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 ___ psas-team mailing list

[PSAS] Nano/Microsatellite Launch Demand Assessment

2011-12-02 Thread Nathan Bergey
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.

Re: [PSAS] Meeting tomorrow (1/10/2012)?

2012-01-09 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

[PSAS] Space Links

2012-03-28 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

[PSAS] Fwd: PSAS + Open Source Bridge

2012-04-03 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

[PSAS] Space News for June 19, 2012

2012-06-19 Thread Nathan Bergey
* 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

[PSAS] Launch This Summer: June 2nd

2013-02-16 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

[PSAS] Moving to github

2013-02-21 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

Re: [PSAS] Raising the Launch Tower Tomorrow

2013-06-08 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

[PSAS] Roll Control Win

2013-06-26 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

[PSAS] Packing for Launch

2013-06-28 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

[PSAS] Successful Launch AKA Party Time

2013-07-01 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

[PSAS] Official Launch Date: July 20th

2014-06-02 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

Re: [PSAS] Launch site repeater information (2 meter)

2014-07-16 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

[PSAS] Github Access

2014-07-29 Thread Nathan Bergey
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/

Re: [PSAS] [psas-avionics] GPS Study Group

2014-08-12 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

[PSAS] Reminder: GPS Study Group

2014-09-23 Thread Nathan Bergey
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 ___ psas-team mailing list psas-team@lists.psas.pdx.edu

Re: [PSAS] FW: Congratulations! You qualified as a Finalist in the Intel NUC Challenge!

2015-03-02 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

[PSAS] Meeting Tonight Moved To FAB 150

2015-07-28 Thread Nathan Bergey
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 ___

Re: [PSAS] Gorgeous 360 video from Launch 12 posted!!

2016-06-13 Thread Nathan Bergey
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

Re: [PSAS] ADIS data format questions

2016-05-31 Thread Nathan Bergey
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:

Re: [PSAS] JAXA SS-250-4 launch in T-2:45!!

2017-01-10 Thread Nathan Bergey
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