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3:01 am
December 7, 2009
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rpulkrabek
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I'm back. Sorry for being away. I have been quite busy. I had a week vacation with troubles finding time and a network connection. Then afterwards I had to catch up on my "actual" work that pays the bills, but enough excuses. Now that I can focus on the "important" work, I would like to know if there is a way to catch up on the things I have missed. It was once brought up that we would have a post or youtube videos or something to describe the progress that was made, whether it was weekly or biweekly, I don't know. So, for my main question:
What has been done with CSTART for the past two weeks so that I can quickly catch back up?
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3:19 am
December 7, 2009
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Luke Maurits
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Welcome back! Good to know you are still around!
Here's a quick summary of things I can remember:
- We decided that the command module – service module structure for CLLARE might not make much sense since we want the same spacecraft to be able to scale down to suborbital flights where we would want all essential equipment inside the CM. This is probably best discussed here.
- We decided to go with hybrid fuelled rockets for all our boosters, mainly for fuel handling reasons. This was discussed on the forums here.
- Realising that none of us knows that much about hybrid fuelled rockets and that the CLLARE boosters would be way too large and expensive to learn on, we created a second project OHKLA which is just about building a hybrid rocket that can get higher than 100km above the ground (the border of space, or Karman line). This is supposed to be a small, realistic project so that we can attract amateur rocketeers, learn about which kinds of fuel work best, etc. and also get some attention for ourselves by achieving something awesome in 1 or 2 years. This was discussed on the forums here.
- We discovered Copenhagen Suborbitals, an awesome group a lot like us and a little further along who we will make contact with soonish.
- We have done a lot of good work on striving toward 501(c)(3) status (including raising US$120 toward filing costs!) and thinking about our bylaws. This has culminated in a recent (this morning) "call to arms" on finalising our organisational work soon.
I think those are all the major points. We have certainly been busy!
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Main CLLARE workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.
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3:53 am
December 7, 2009
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rpulkrabek
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Great to hear! Thanks for the update. It was a perfect way to describe the past two weeks, and I think it would be a good idea if we could somehow put something like this on the front page or to some link that says something along the lines of "recent activities". I will read these links you sent me and see how I can contribute and see how I can even possibly donate towards the 501(c)(3) status.
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4:55 am
December 7, 2009
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Luke Maurits
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Post edited 10:58 am – December 7, 2009 by Luke Maurits
I think this situation (i.e. me having to summarise a lot of major changes while you were away for just two weeks) makes a pretty convincing case that we have not been using our blog, Twitter account and possibly even the Wiki as well as we should be. People should absolutely be able to take a week or two off and be able to catch up easily when they get back without having to trawl through the forums.
I think more frequent blog posts and Tweets would help with this, and maybe we should have a "News" page on the Wiki. What do people think?
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Main CLLARE workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.
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6:26 am
December 7, 2009
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Rizwan
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I suggest a blog post every week, summarising all the changes. May be we should be using this topic
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