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- Arrive at Hotel- Arrive at Hotel
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Welcome:
- We 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 Fergurson, Eric Pahlke, and Ana Ilic (plus more)
- Virginia Space Grant – Mary Sandy, John Companion, Debbie Ross
- Wallops Flight Facility – Phil Eberspeaker, Keith Koehler, Rick Weaver, and Andrew Manidgo
- 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…
- Please introduce yourself
- Tell us who you are and why you are here
- Tell us what you hope to learn from this workshop
The students you represent…
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Welcome:
- 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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Workshop Goals:
The goals of this workshop are…DARFFALS
FUN – have an experience like no other
LEARN – how to build simple sounding rocket payloads
DO – use your hands to do the above
FLY – put all the above on a rocket and launch it
ANALYZE – understand the data from your flight (recover)
ACCESS – create standard access platform to space (RockSat)
START – Go home and start your own student program
RETURN – in the future with your own rocket payload
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Workshop Goals:
- You will form teams of three (you pick them)*
* one team of four
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Workshop Goals:
- Teams will get a kit of parts
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Workshop Goals:
- Launch, analyze, and celebrate on Day 6
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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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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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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 DJune 26, 2008- RocketSat IV June 27, 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
- You – the participants (Registration Fee)
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Workshop Registration:
Includes…
$ Breakfast and lunch every day
$ Dinner twice
$ All reusable kit hardware
$ Handbook and software
$ Launch and recovery
$ Shirt and other items
$1,500
PricelessTotal Experience…
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Workshop Preparations:
- All that said, we think we’re ready…
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Workshop Preparations:
- All that said, we think we’re ready…
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Workshop Preparations:
- All that said, we think we’re ready…
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Workshop Preparations:
- All that said, we think we’re ready…
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Workshop Preparations:
- All that said, we think we’re ready…
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Workshop Preparations:
- All that said, we think we’re ready…
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Workshop Preparations:
- All that said, we think we’re ready…
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Workshop Preparations:
- All that said, we think we’re ready…
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Workshop Preparations:
- All that said, we think we’re ready…
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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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Sounding Rocket Overview:
- Unmanned
- High altitude, not orbital
- Typically recovered
- Telemetry
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Sounding Rocket Overview:
- Various missions and payload configurations
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Sounding Rocket Overview:
- Many configurations
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Sounding Rocket Overview:
- Many configurations
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Team Activity:
- Teamwork can make or break a project
- Many problems with teams can be attributed to those initial moments together
- Having fun together is a great way to get to know each other
- This activity will set each team off in a good direction
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Team Activity:
- Each team will work with another team for this activity
- Both teams will work toward a common goal
- Goal is the first to finish building this…
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Team Activity:
- All great feats begin with a solid foundation
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Team Activity:
- All great feats begin with a solid foundation
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Team Activity:
- All great feats begin with a solid foundation
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Team Activity:
- All great feats begin with a solid foundation
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Team Activity:
- All great feats begin with a solid foundation
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Team Activity:
- All great feats begin with a solid foundation
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Team Activity:
- All great feats begin with a solid foundation
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Team Activity:
- All great feats begin with a solid foundation
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Team Activity:
- All great feats begin with a solid foundation
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Team Activity:
- All great feats begin with a solid foundation
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Team Activity:
- All great feats begin with a solid, common sense and concrete foundation
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Team Activity:
- All great feats begin with a solid foundation
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Team Activity:
- Each team member must participate in some way
- Two teams must work together
- Devise a plan
- This will be your “buddy” team throughout the workshop
- Set must be built correctly
- Set must operate
- Everyone wins
- Are you ready?
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Team Activity:
- You will have 5 minutes to come up with your combined team strategy
- You may open the box and look at the instructions only
- Do not open the piece bags at this time
- When you have completed your set, bring it to the front with your team sheet for inspection.
- Please keep all the pieces together with the box and instructions as we plan to use these sets again next year.
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Last Minute Updates:
- Leave for Wallops ~6:25 AM
- Arrive at Wallops security gate ~6:45 AM
- Be at Breakfast location by 6:58 AM
- Bring Wallops ID and Photo ID
- CARPOOL, CARPOOL, CARPOOL
- Dress code: comfortable pants, closed toed shoes, no tank tops
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Directions to Wallops from Refuge Inn
- Plan on about 15 - 20 minutes to get from Refuge Inn to Wallops- Lost, call 303-378-4765
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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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You will be coming in fromRoute 13, turning onto VA 175At T’s Corner toward Chincoteague.You pass Wallops to get to Chincoteague Island and the Refuge Inn.
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Buildings off to your right when you turn left onto Stubbs Rd.
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The Williamsburg Room in the Cafeteriais to the right of the Lobby
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Turn left off Stubbs onto Bond Rd. just past these flagpoles.F3 is the brick building in the background and the van Is parked in the parking lot that we will use.This picture was taken from the parking lot of the Cafeteria.
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Entrance to Building F3 coming from the parking lot
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Workshop Room in Building F3
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Workshop Room in Building F3, looking theOther way and showing the projection screen