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RockOn! 2009
RockOn:RockOn:
- Arrive at Hotel- Arrive at Hotel
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Welcome:
- You are finally here!
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Welcome:
- It took many people, many long hours to get here
- Colorado Space Grant – Chris Koehler, Brian Sanders, Shawn Carroll, Riley Pack, David Ferguson, Eric Pahlke, Emily Logan, Jessica Brown, Aaron Russert, Justin Simmons, Brian Cox, Frankie Ning, and Kendra Kilbride
- Virginia Space Grant – Mary Sandy, John Companion, Debbie Ross, Kevin Shinpaugh, Robbie Robertson, Steve Nelson, Kareem El-Gohary, and Max DePiro
- Wallops Flight Facility – Phil Eberspeaker, Keith Koehler, Rick Weaver, and Andrew Mandigo
- NASA HQ’s – Joyce Winterton, Diane DeTroye, and Katie Pruzan
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Welcome:
- And YOU!
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Welcome:
- Thank you for coming and believing in this workshop
- We will take a few minutes to find out why you came…
The students you represent…
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Welcome:
- This workshop has been done once before
- This workshop will be fun
- This workshop will be hard
- This workshop will give you the tools, skills, and experience to start your own rocket payload program
- This workshop has been done once before
- Things may not go as planned…
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Workshop Goals:
- The goals of this workshop are…DARFFALS
1. FUN – have an experience like no other
2. LEARN – how to build simple sounding rocket payloads
3. DO – use your hands to do the above
4. FLY – put all the above on a rocket and launch it
5. ANALYZE – understand the data from your flight (recover)
6. ACCESS – create standard access platform to space (RockSat)
7. START – Go home and start your own student program
8. RETURN – in the future with your own rocket payload
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Workshop Origins:
- Based the successful Boulder BalloonSat workshop
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Workshop Origins:
- This workshop has been held five times with great participation
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RockOn:RockOn:
- Arrive at Hotel- Arrive at Hotel
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RockOn 2008:
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What we told them…
- This workshop has never been done before
- This workshop will be fun
- This workshop will be hard
- This workshop will give you the tools, skills, and experience to start your own rocket payload program
- This workshop has never been done before
- Things may not go as planned…
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RockOn! 2009
Workshop Goals:
- The goals of this workshop are…DARFFALS
1. FUN – have an experience like no other
2. LEARN – how to build simple sounding rocket payloads
3. DO – use your hands to do the above
4. FLY – put all the above on a rocket and launch it
5. ANALYZE – understand the data from your flight (recover)
6. ACCESS – create standard access platform to space (RockSat)
7. START – Go home and start your own student program
8. RETURN – in the future with your own rocket payload
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What we told them…
- You will form teams of three (you pick them)*
* one team of four
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What we told them…
- Teams will get a kit of parts
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- Electronics Build on Day 2
What we told them…
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Workshop Vision:
- You take this experience and do something with it
- When you are ready to fly, you’ll come back to Wallops
- You’ll fly your payload on next summer’s workshop flight
- Your launch fee will directly supports the 2009 workshop flight
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Future:
- Four RockSat Payload Canisters will be flown on the same flight
- Cost is $12K per canister for 20 pounds
- Launch is June 26, 2009
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Future:
AUG 2008- Intent to Fly - RockSat Users Guide
OCT – DEC 2008- Design Reviews
FEB 2009- Wallops Final Reviews
JUN 2009- Launch
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Future:
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PL3
PL4
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PL6
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Participating Schools
Boston University
Colorado State University
Metropolitan State College
Penn State, Mont Alto
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Minnesota
University of North Dakota
University of Puerto Rico
University of Wyoming
Virginia Tech
University of North Dakota
Metropolitan State College
Colorado State University
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Future:
- Wallops has already committed to a much bigger rocket for next summer
- A two stage Terrier-Orion Sounding Rocket
- Expected to reach 140 km
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June 21 – 26, 2009
spacegrant.colorado.edu/rockon
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RockOn 2009…
Includes…
$ Breakfast and lunch every day
$ Dinner twice
$ All reusable kit hardware
$ Handbook and software
$ Shirt and other items
$ Launch and recovery
$1,875
PricelessTotal Experience…
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Workshop Origins:
- The workshop kit or RocketSat has been under development and testing since January 2006.
- RocketSat has been developed by undergraduate students from the University of Colorado at Boulder
- RocketSat has flown three times in different configurations- RocketSat I September 2006- RocketSat II April 2007- RocketSat III June 2007- RocketSat DMarch 2008 (moved to June/July 2008)- RocketSat IV June 24, 2008
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RocketSat I:
Objectives:
1. Easily reproducible payload design (COTS)
2. Qualitative data description of flight environment with altitude
3. Science Package:- Geiger Counter- Microwave Detector- Temperature sensor- Accelerometers- Pressure sensor
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RocketSat II:
Objectives:
1. Easily reproducible payload design (COTS)
2. Record detailed flight data:
- Video Camera
3. Environmental sensors:- Temperature- Pressure- Humidity- Three-axis accelerometers - Strain gauges- Faculty GPS experiment
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RocketSat III:
Objectives:
1. Re-fly all hardware from RS I except microwave sensor and Geiger counter
2. New Sensors:- Silicon pressure sensor- New Geiger counter- New microwave sensor
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RocketSat D:
RocketSat D (for Donut) Objectives
1. Sanity check for RockOn workshop kit
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RocketSat IV:
Objectives:
1. Highest recording of greenhouse gases via Aircore process
2. Prove RockSat standard and RockOn sustainability concept
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Workshop Preparations:
- Numerous reviews, meetings, and telecons with Wallops
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Workshop Preparations:
- Lots and Lots of cash…
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Workshop Funding:
- Workshop is being funded by…
- Wallops Flight Facility
- NASA Education
- CO and VA Space Grant
- RockSat teams
- You – the participants (Registration Fee)
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Workshop Preparations:
- All that said, we think we’re ready…
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Your Handbook:
- One copy for each participant
- Everything we use in the workshop is in the handbook
- There is a DVD-ROM with electronic version of everything
- Put your name on the handbook, we do not have extras
- You will use it in conjunction with the projected slides
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Other Items:
- Hotel OK? Problems, let me or Debbie know ASAP
- Who is not staying at the Refuge?
- Anyone have a flight before 1:00 PM on Saturday?
- Anyone need transportation to Wallops tomorrow?
- Special needs?
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- Plan on about 15 - 20 minutes to get from Refuge Inn to Wallops- Lost, call 303-378-4765- You will need to display both your name tag and security
badge at all times
- Keep them with you everywhere you go
- Safety briefing is on Monday so stay off the runway, construction sites, and buildings we are not working in
- You will be traveling to and from the hotel and Wallops numerous times this week
- Allow for plenty of travel time
Workshop Logistics:
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- Plan on about 10 - 20 minutes to get from Refuge Inn to Wallops- Lost, call 303-378-4765
Directions to Wallops from Refuge Inn
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Directions to Wallops from Refuge Inn
- Exit LEFT on Maddox from Refuge Inn- Turn LEFT on N. Main Street- Turn RIGHT on Chincoteague Road (175)- Cross Chincoteague Bay on 175
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Directions to Wallops from Refuge Inn
- Follow Chincoteague Road around Wallops Station- Turn RIGH at Atlantic Road
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Directions to Wallops from Refuge Inn
- Turn RIGHT on Fulton Street, guard station on left, security office on right. Badges should let you pass through guard station.
Security Office
Guard Station
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Directions to Wallops from Refuge Inn
- Continue on Fulton Street- Take LEFT on Stubbs Boulevard
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Directions to Wallops from Refuge Inn
Breakfast
Park HereOur Meeting LocationBuilding F3
Turn LEFT on Bond St and LEFT into Parking Lot
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Buildings off to your right when you turn left onto Stubbs Rd.
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The Williamsburg Room
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Workshop Parking Lot
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Entrance to Building F3 coming from the parking lot
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RockOn! 2009Workshop Room in Building F3
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Workshop Room in Building F3, looking theOther way and showing the projection screen
Directions to Wallops from Refuge Inn
