Rocket University
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Meet the team
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- Doug Astler
- Kristen Bury
- Jeff Chin
- Deb Goodenow
- Steven Korn
- Jeremiah Mcnatt
- Justin Niehaus
- Anthony Roberts
- Vikram Shyam
- Matt Smith
- Amanda Stevenson
- Fransua Thomas
- DER
- DSP
- RTM
- DPE
- DSP
- RPV
- REC
- DPC
- RTT
- QER
- DER
- RXN
Mentors
- Paul Bartolotta
- Rochelle Gallagher
Training
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Completed Training
- Rocket U Orientation and Group Training
- Lifecycle Processes and Systems Engineering
- Project Proposals and Selection
- Requirements Development and Management
- CREO (Pro-E) Workshop
- COMPASS Analysis of Alternatives
- Project Planning Analysis and Control
- Fabrication Overview
- MAGNET Training
- Space Systems Verification and Validation
- Python Training
- Version Control Systems
- Scientific Computing
Future Training
- 3D Printing
- Inertia Navigation
- Rocket Propulsion
- Lessons Learned with Larry Ross
- Microcontrollers
- Embedded Linux
- Real time operation systems
- AeroPropulsion Basics
- Instrumentation Selection
- RM1 and STEP Level 1
- Communications Telemetry
- Dynamics in Structures: NASTRAN
280 hours of training + Weekly Meetings + System Reviews + Group Presentations
+ Balloon Payload Development
DSM Presentation
04/02/14
Balloon Gondola Protection System
Presented by: Doug Astler, Jeffrey Chin, Justin Niehaus
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Outline
- Introduction to Rocket University
- Project Selection
- GHAPS Background
- Rocket University Project Scope, Cost, and Schedule
- Rocket University Project Success Criteria
- Forward Works
Introduction to Rocket University
- What?
- Cross-discipline technical development program – design, build, test, and fly a system
- When?
- Twelve to eighteen month program – started in November 2013
- Who?
- Twelve early career employees – diverse backgrounds in engineering, research and safety
- How?
- Hands on project - $30,000 budget
- Training
- Four APPEL courses
- Eighteen GRC-developed courses led by subject matter experts
- Mentors
- Where?
- Come visit us in our “clubhouse” – I-Lab (Building 5, Room CW-12)
- Reliable, reusable, and low-cost balloon-borne platform for planetary science.
- Providing decadal class planetary science observations that cannot be achieved from current ground and space assets
- Launch from any Columbia Science Balloon Facility for ultra-long duration missions (100 days)
- Being reconfigured to meet a broad envelope of science mission needs
- Design and build a re-usable balloon gondola that can be refurbished within one year for no more than 20% of the cost of the original flight
Stretch Goal
- Perform a risk reduction analysis on controlled decent
- Mitigates landing impact forces, aiding in the reusability of the balloon gondola
- Minimizes the risk of landing in unfavorable environments, such as water
Resources
- Airborne Systems has offered the following:
- Customized controlled descent system, scalable to DRAGONFLY
- Assistance with design integration
- Formal training for system and software
- In-kind system contribution of $100,000
Payload 1
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Basement Level
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