2023-05-05 Weekly Meeting Minutes

Rocketry Stuff

Cesar!

• Asked us questions

  • Stuff about funding, what the project is

Soldering Party!

Peter

• Soldering party all week whenever anyone’s free

• Anyone can help! Go find Jack and tell him you want to solder

Ground Station Rotator

Tim

• Rotator almost done!

  • Today will achieve Pi communication after debugging

• Tuesday is a poster work day

Starshade fun

Miguel

• Deployment mechanism is chillin

Open

• Asks Peter about power draw

  • Can have <500mA, 300mA instantaneous should be good

• Looking into mitigating cold welding

  • Doing 3D printing to prevent metal contact

• How it works:

  • Screws guide mechanism so it deploys evenly

  • 12W linear actuator

  • 5-6cm for box

ADCS

Lance

• Documented all the things in the simulink simulation

• Will look into reaction wheel stuff

Summertime stuff

Morrison

• Will probably try to meet

• More individual projects-type stuff

Senior Design

Morrison

• Sent email to Simoni, Simoni says yes while dragging feet

• Going after him to get a strong yes