This blog will keep a record of the Mt SAC team's rocket launch project. The goal is to send a rocket into low-earth orbit and collect some data as an exercise in combining engineering and scientific research.
- We will need data storage on the same magnitude of 35kb. An SD card was suggested.
- We will attempt the use of three button-cell batteries to run our experiment.
- Brandon and Nick Weiner are using the program solidworks to draw up a digital representation of the containers and structures we will need to build so that we can possibly use 3D printing to create them.
- Nick E. is assembling a rocket launch simulator for testing the durability of our payload including a mock shell for us to use as the rocket's body (payload holder) in the simulator.
- Michelle is going to find out the extraction techniques available to us post-mission for extracting the space junk (particles, gas molecules, microorganisms, organic material) we collect.
- Stephen(team leader) and Kyle are going to research the current draw of the sensors and servo we are using and will be learning to program the arduino.
- Dr. Mason is going to bring the researched parts to Kyle and Stephen tomorrow so they can start programming right away.
