2022

January 22' Progress Update

Due to a few minor setbacks, The team has had to go back and reassess our goals for the new academic year. Management has been working hard on getting orders ready to be summited and placed, while the rest of the team works on Critical Design Reviews for their individual sub-systems.

March 22' Progress Update

The subteams have completed work on their Critical Design Reviews for various subsystems and future areas of interest. After presenting these reviews, work has begun to implement these subsystems, primarily a redesigned controls system which will be easier to operate and provide more accurate data, as well as incorporating multiple new safety features.

August 22' Progress Update

Over the summer, progress slowed down as much of the team became involved in internships and jobs, but progress still continued toward completing updates on the system and planning began for static fire, involving looking for a test site that would better suit the team than the previous one. Management also created the schedule shown to the left for the semester, allocating plenty of time for static fire to be pushed back.

September 22' Progress Update

In preparation for static fire, the team has begun preparing for a series of high-pressure integration tests (HPIT), which are designed to test the gse system at the expected operating pressure of 800 PSIG, but to get to the test, the team must first pass a test readiness review (TRR) to prove that the team is ready and capable of safely completing this test.

October 22' Progress Update

In October, the team completed an extremely successful series of high-pressure integration tests, showing that the system is operating nominally and is mostly prepared for static fire. At the team's test readiness review, the reviewers gave us some great feedback about some of our subsystems, and the team is now focusing on working on some of these substems, primarily the ignition system and the manual abort system. Unfortunately, the test site we planned on using didn't work out, and now much of the progress toward static fire cannot be continued until a new site is found.

November 22' Progress Update

The team has found a new test site, but at this point, it is too late in the semester to get the logistics worked out in time, so the static fire has been pushed back to January. Now the team is working towards completing the test readiness review for the static fire, as well as wrapping up the last few subsystems that need to be finished before hot fire. The ignition and abort systems are mostly complete and are just waiting on some parts to be ordered, and the logistics for testing at the new test site are underway.

December 22' Progress Update

The team is spending december break preparing for our hot fire TRR in early January, and a hopefully subsequent hot fire test in late January. The subteam leads are also preparing to hand over their positions to the next generation of Tartarus, as subteam lead elections are also happening in January.

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