2023-04-21 Weekly Meeting Minutes

Introductions

everyone

• New people! (Capstone, etc)

• Capstone paperwork + CSLI paperwork → getting it done well :)

Summary of people doing stuff now

Sam

• Lance work: head of ADCS, simulation,

• Morrison work: transceiver

• Onur work: ground station CAD

• Tim work: ground station power

• Sam work: ground station ME

• Peter work: flight computer

• Miguel work: Starshade payload, mechanical

Capstone discussion

Sam

• Where does capstone fit into the project?

  • Louis work, reversible adhesive

  • Design a transceiver module (Sam thinks it’s good, if we can get a client, this is fantastic)

  • Finalization of design of the satellite is accelerated by capstone team, very good as long as we don’t step on each other’s toes

• Capstone project scope

  • ME: ConOps, Systems, Mission Risk assessment and feasibility studies (Payload)

  • Louis' reversible adhesive

    • TRL 4, to go up to 7 or 8, one needs a mission in space, our satellite can supply that

    • Payload options (finding a balance between our educational benefit and ATSP’s technological benefit):

      • 1. Company gives us payload, and we build a satellite around that

        • Pros: Support and Money

        • Cons: Quite strict

      • 2. Louis helps and acts as client

        • Pros: gives us a chance to build stuff without COTS, and we work with Louis

      • 3. We design our own payload independently

        • Cons: Harder, work less with Louis

      • Sam’s proposal: implement a payload to raise TRL level with option 2.

        • Requires heat analysis, good opportunity for ME work

        • This leaves power management, ADCS, payload, flight computer, ground station

• Discussion

  • The plan is that the outcome of capstone project is the CSLI proposal

  • For ECE documentation, there will be very little needed for CSLI, but Dr. Simoni will need more, so the documentation for ECE is going to be twofold

  • The team will incorporate younger members and capstone members for writing proposal.

ECE capstone items

Morrison

• Meet with BK from Amergent (a bona fide satellite company)

• Hold back on inviting Dr. Simoni until documentation and a solid plan is achieved

Leadership Roles

Sam

Sam and Morrison want underclassmen to step up for leadership, especially from a project management standpoint so that the program doesn’t end with Sam and Morrison.

Sam wants to pass on systems engineering knowledge

General Updates

Everyone

• Radio club is meeting with ground station

• Miguel:

  • Looking into deployment mechanisms (servo, burn wire, spring, etc)

  • Looking for people to tag on the project (Onur tagging on), help with brainstorming and prototyping ideas

  • Set up a meeting, documentation on confluence

• Peter:

  • Components have arrived, waiting for Jack to tell us when he’s ready for a soldering party

  • Power management needs to happen

  • Herniter Hoard depleted (all gone)

• Lance:

  • 2/3 of the time in sun

  • Added a reaction wheel, and now math works! We have control. Recommends we add a reaction wheel for sure

  • Comments from Sam: we need to do a trace study to determine if we can do the reaction wheel (size won’t be a problem though, maybe bumping up to 2U). Recommends Lance look into both reaction wheel and non reaction wheel.

• Yejia:

  • Bullied (met with) Peter, discussed the PiCubed board and assembly

• Onur:

  • Joining Miguel (through ritual of fist bump)

Rocketry Membership

Sam

• Rocketry is trying to consolidate a big 'ol network of space club people

• They have access to SGA funding and promotion, would be good for us

• Plan for next year is to update main board once a month on what’s going on

• Pillars of rocketry:

  • USLI

  • Hobby rocketry

  • Associated organizations

    • SmallSat

    • Electric Propulsion Group

    • Rose Propulsion Laboratory

• We may need a treasurer that works with main Rocketry

• Members of this club can be an active member, with weekly meetings.

• Everyone is allowed to be a member of rocketry, a voting session is on Monday at 7pm in the KIC.

• We will decide next year if we need an official “project manager,” up to the team. Formal leadership is a possibility

• Access to SEDS; grants, meetings, etc. Join Rocketry discord for more info

• Rocketry has a new constitution, members of SmallSat can vote on ratifying it