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Posted
5 months
ago
Project update Rocket Tracks Tacking Talked with the SightLine folks Still willing to donate a system for rocket tracks! Think they can nail the tracking. Old ATV video not real helpful (too much airframe and RC fins in
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the way)
Horizon cam probably better for horizon tracking (i.e., pitch, yaw)
Can use wide angle + zoomed cameras and hand off between them
Thermal IR sounds like a good idea too.. maybe they have one? :)
Bob's RF tracking
4 helical antennas to do monopulse tracking on 2.4 GHz ATV signal
Make our own combiner on the EPL PCB router
Test on Dan's helicopter with ATV
Demod outputs digitized by local microcontroller, then what? Local PID, or off to a PC?
Worried about backlash on the chain
Capstone updates
Fall/winter CS capstone
Working on FC software infrastructure
May need hardware to test their system soon
Winter/Spring ECE capstone
Working on power distribution + data distribution + battery charger board
Waiting on avionics team technology decisions
AV3 Technology Change
We're deciding to slowly move to the STM32F4xx family of microcontrollers. Possibly we should have done this quite a while ago :)
We ordered some STM32F407 dev boards with Ethernet from Olimex which should arrive later this week.
Hope to have an end-to-end Ethernet technology test with latency numbers by January 8th.
2013 Schedule
Next meeting is January 8th, 2013. That includes a 6pm intro meeting. We have enough funding to do at least two launches in 2013:
Late spring/early summer launch in Bend
Goal: planned first flight of AV3 + roll control
Late fall launch in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada
Goal: Probably improved AV3 + roll control, possibly first 6DOF? [Less]
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Posted
11 months
ago
Calendar Weekend Dates Notes July 28-29 Oregon Rocketry "Desert Heat" launch August 4-5 Full Moon
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August 11-12
August 18-19
New Moon
August 25-26
September 1-2
Oregon Rocketry "September Sage Xtreme" launch + Full Moon
September 9-8
September 15-16
PRIMARY2: XPRS (Black Rock) New Moon
September 22-23
PRIMARY1: BALLS21 (Black Rock)
September 29-30
End of first week of Fall 2012 term
October 6-7
October 13-14
New Moon
October 20-21
BACKUP: Oregon Rocketry "Rocketober" launch
Dates to Keep Open
July 28-29: The first date would be the ORock July launch "Desert Heat". This is probably too soon to be comfortably done with the rocket.
September 22-23: The second date would be either BALLS21 or XPRS in Black Rock Nevada, ideally BALLS for the cool rockets and comradery.
October 20-21: Backup date - hopefully we'll launch before this date, since this is right after midterms and it's cold out there in October. [Less]
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Posted
about 1 year
ago
Tuesday April 24th at 7:00pm, Martel Martinez, from the Aeromechanical Design Group at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center will talk about Dryden, what projects they're working, and what's new in aerospace engineering.
More info on title and talk soon!
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over 1 year
ago
PSAS got some fantastic press this month in Portland Monthly Magazine's December 2011 edition. The article, called "The Mile High Club" (ha!), did an excellent job capturing the spirit of our group.
Much thanks goes to Zach Dundas, PDX Monthly, and to Nathan, Chris, and Rob, who hosted Zach and David at the July 2011 launch attempt.
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Posted
almost 2 years
ago
Potential Fall Launch Planning We have the possibility to turn around and re-launch with a new motor after the failed launch in July. Important Dates Event Date
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Beginning of term
September 26
First Weekend before School
September 24-25
First Weekend during School
October 1-2 *Target Launch Date
Roctober (ORock)
October 14-16 *Backup Launch Date
Dave can't make it 25th and Jamey can't make 16th. Therefore:
Our target launch date is set for October 2nd. [Less]
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Posted
almost 2 years
ago
Review of Avionics Module
Module Todo:
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Posted
almost 2 years
ago
July Launch of LV2.3 July 31st 2011 we headed back to Eastern OR to launch our rocket again with the same roll control as the previous launch, but this time with much of the full flight computer we have been planning for years in in place
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and running.
Unfortunately the rocket motor failed on ignition ejecting the fuel (unburnt) from the rear of the rocket. The force of the depressurization lifted the rocket several feet into the air and it came down again fairly hard. There was minor damage to the rocket.
Launch Day
Photos
Video
Failure Analysis [Less]
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Posted
almost 2 years
ago
At tonight's meeting we got everyone on board for an end of July for the next launch of LV2.3. We had previously discussed launch days and came up with end of July, we were just waiting for a few key people to get on-board. Now we think we
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have everybody so:
It's Official, Launch date set for Sunday, July 31st.
As a backup we picked Sunday August 21st.
We will be launching at the Oregon Rocketry's Brothers launch site in Eastern Oregon.
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If you would like to attend you can drop us a line at info@psas.pdx.edu [Less]
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almost 2 years
ago
At tonight's meeting we got everyone on board for an end of July for the next launch of LV2.3. We had previously discussed launch days and came up with end of July, we were just waiting for a few key people to get on-board. Now we think we
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have everybody so:
It's Official, Launch date set for Sunday, July 31st.
As a backup we picked Sunday August 21st.
We will be launching at the Oregon Rocketry's Brothers launch site in Eastern Oregon.
View Larger Map
If you would like to attend you can drop us a line at info@psas.pdx.edu [Less]
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Posted
about 2 years
ago
PSAS in the Oregonian This Saturday Portland State Aerospace Society was featured in an article in the Oregonian. This was our first main stream bit of publicity in a while and we were able to share our success with the roll control from our
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last launch.
Here is a archive copy of the online version of the article:
Many thanks to Jenny Furniss and the Oregonian for their interest and support! [Less]
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