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.
Nov 26 - Dec2
- Work on the CDR, which is the last presentation with Audrey in the Fall
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
- Worked on Solid Works to create a duplicate canister for testing.
- 3D printing the canister
- Done in the senior lab with goners help from Tom
- Design the power regulating circuit
- Tested the ADXL 377 Accelerometer
- Check meeting with Audrey at Monday
- Ordered the parts
- 3D Printed the multipurpose port
- Designed the voltage sweep circuit
- 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
- 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
- Spring Break, we hadn't had much.
- 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
- 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
- Start working on assembling the Gigiercounter
- We will have to use use different approach, count the clicks instead of measuring the voltage
- Finish the 3D design for giger compartment
- Assembled the voltage sweep, step, power regulator and INSS in suppurate demo PCB boards
- Test all sub systems, PASSED
- Meeting with Audrey Friday at 12:30
- Registration is Due next Friday May 10
- We have to start looking for accommodation near Wallops Flying Facility
May 6 - 10
- Start working on designing the PCB board
- Design a battery enclosure for our 11.1V 25C Lithium-ion Polymer batteries