Sep 7-Sep 14:

• Meeting with the group and look for Ideas. We came up with many ideas and we will talk to Dr. Cotton about it.
  • Autonomous Scanning Drones
  • Power Monitoring Electric Plug
  • Interactive Gloves
  • Mammal Spotter
  • Electric Massage in a Bottle

Sep 15- Sep 28

• Group meeting with Dr. Cotton, in the meeting Dr. Cotton offered us the opportunity to be the RockSat-C UD team for the 2019 year. The RockSa-C program allow students to launch their mini experiments in a suborbital rocket under NASA supervision.
• In regard to the registration fees and process, Dr. Cotton will secure a grant form the Delaware Consortium to cover the registration fees and he will contact with the program coordinator to get us in.
• What is going to be launched:
  • Dr. Cotton informed us that there are some professors at the ECE department whom interested in sending their experiments to spaces.
  • We will have to come up with an idea to what we want to do or collect from space.
  • Dr. Cotton, proposed a project which is going to be run by him directly.

Sep 29 - Oct 12

• Our Intend to Fly From has been approved by the program coordinator.
• We met with Dr. Cotton to discuss our timeline for this semester.
• The canister will contain 4 main projects :
  • Dr. Cotton High School project
  • Dr. Zang HEMT transistor tester
  • Dr. Merotiznik 3D printed Radar Aetna
  • Our team High Accuracy GPS
• Met with the group to analyze how we are going to tackle this mission.

Oct 13 - Oct 19

• We started composing the CoDR report
• I did not get a specific section to work on, put I was helping the team in different areas

Oct 20 - Oct 26

• Met with Dr. Cotton and got a feedback regarding our CoDR.
• Concluded the work on the CoDR.
• Started working on choosing the necessary equipments for the mission.
• We will have our CoDR with the program coordinator next week via Zoom

Oct 27 - Nov2

• This week we had our CoDR presentation with Audrey ( the program coordinator from Colorado). The presentation took around 50 min then Audrey had some comments for us.
• Our next presentation PDR (Plenary Design Report) will take place at Nov 13, 2018 7:00PM EST
• Comments for us to work on for the PDR:
  • Add CAD design for the canister.
  • Specify the activation mode we will use.
  • Specify which port we will be using.
  • Specify the power supply.
  • Add block diagrams for the system to illustrate our mission.

Nov 3 - Nov 16

• Meeting with Dr. Zang to go over the specifications of what she want from us in regard to her experiment.
• No reply from Dr. Merotznik
• Start composing the PDR, I'll handle the system part and the CAD design.
• CAD designs and Block Diagrams

• We had our PDR at Nov13,2018 7:00PM EST.
• After the PDR:
  • Audrey complemented out presentation since we stick to the templet she provided.
  • Our CDR will take place at Dec 7, 2018 ( Time TBD)
  • We will need to include detailed schematics for our CDR
  • We will have to include port CAD design.
  • We will have to provide primary test results for the CDR

Nov 17 - Nov 25

• Thanksgiving Break, lay down and eat some turkey.

Dec 3- Dec 7

• present our PDR in front of Dr. Cotton @ Tuesday Dec 4 7:00 PM
• Cont. working on finishing up the CDR
• Presenting to Audrey @ Friday Dec 7 11:00 AM EST

After the CDR:

• Power budget to be delivered
• Mechanical Drawing to be delivered
• We have to notice that the mid plate is 0.5 inch and we have to take that into account
• Editing the port design to fit the one Rock-Sat have
• Structural Design Review, will be in the Mid Feb
• Audrey is going to ask about the GPS use regulation

SPRING 2019

Feb 11 - Feb 16

Feb 18 - 22

• 3D printing the canister
• Done in the senior lab with goners help from Tom

Feb 25 - March 1

• Design the power regulating circuit
• Tested the ADXL 377 Accelerometer

March 2- March 8

• Check meeting with Audrey at Monday

March 9 -15

• Ordered the parts
• 3D Printed the multipurpose port
• Designed the voltage sweep circuit

March 18- 22

• We had our ISTR (Integrated Subsystem Testing Review) with Audrey at March 18.
  • We talked about using a 400V gigercounter and she was fine with that
  • We finalized our port connector, we chose 9 Pin connector
  • She mention that we have to contact with our canister partner
• We are still waiting of the fabrication lab to finish the Gen HEMT transistor fabrication and wire bonding

March 25-29

• received most of the parts for the GPS and Gigercounter, still waiting on the 400V step up
• Working on building a physical module of the power regulator

April 1-5

• Spring Break, we hadn't had much.

April 8-12

• Received the canister from Dr. Chase
• continue working on getting the power regulator to work
• Successfully tested the GPS and we were able to get fast response and correct measurement
  • we still have problems exporting the data
• We did a simi system testing with the GPS and the accelerometer and the power regulator

April 15-19

• we had our update meeting with Audry and she was very exited.
  • Asked us to send her the form that came with the canister
• We have our Full Mission System Review in 2 weeks
• We have to get all systems up and running before that

April 22-26

May 13-17

May 20-24