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Apearently, Project Meteor hasn't done much for years, but they still have the room and the equipment and the faculty advisors and some of the grad students who had worked on it are still around. I've been told it ought to be easy to get cardswipe access if I talk to the faculty advisor, but that is besides the point at the moment.

I plan on tracking down one of the faculty advisors to ask questions and in general see what benifit we can derive from their efforts. I've started this thread so we can compile a list of things I ought to ask about or discuss. Keep in mind that they have experience with cubesats and rocketry, and possibly high altitude ballons, so all of our neer-ish term projects are essentially fair game.

brmj said:

I plan on tracking down one of the faculty advisors to ask questions and in general see what benifit we can derive from their efforts. I've started this thread so we can compile a list of things I ought to ask about or discuss.

Maybe you could ask if they could help us as mentors/advisors or even combine forces possibly.  It would be nice to have some input on designing the nozzles and fuel grain.

Also, any luck on tracking any faculty advisors down?

Post edited 2:49 am – December 10, 2010 by brmj

I never did manage to track them down, but I stopped trying after the first couple of attempts. I'll try again.

They have a wealth of papers, old engineering notebooks and so on that ought to be useful. Unfortunately, however, Meteor is essentially dead. There are only a few grad students around who worked on it back when it was active. They still have the room, but people mostly just go there to use the radios. I don't think joining forces with Meteor would really work, since there essentially isn't any Meteor left. The people involved would almost certainly be okay with sharing their expertise, though, and if I'm really lucky they'd be enthusiastic about seeing the project room used for what it was allocated for again and let me make us of it for work on CSTART stuff. That might help them hold off the space allocation nazis, so it could be a win-win. Probably best not to go into any such meeting expecting that, though.

I'll see what I can do about input on the nozzle and fuel grain.