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12:08 am
March 25, 2010
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hayburg
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Post edited 12:21 am – March 25, 2010 by hayburg
Hey All,
Just saw this today on Reddit. Despite the fact that all I do is lurk on Reddit, I knew I had to actually get involved in this project. I'm a Mechanical Engineering student at Harvard. I worked last summer at an aerospace company and I'm hoping to work at SpaceX this summer. I have a lot of CAD experience, I'm in a class on finite element now, and I have a bit of programming knowledge. Perhaps more importantly, I have access to all the shops and professors here and at MIT. Hope I can help.
Hayburg
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1:15 am
March 25, 2010
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Luke Maurits
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Welcome! It is fantastic to have you here. It sounds like you have a wonderful skillset that we can make great use of.
Here is a very quick attempt to get you up to speed on things. CSTART has been going through a lot of internal change lately (see this blog post for some background), so at the moment it may be a little hard to get a good picture of what is going on.
CSTART has two active projects right now, OHKLA, a suborbital sounding rocket project, and CLLARE, a manned lunar landing project. A decent amount of preliminary work has been done on both projects, which you can find at the pages linked above. However, much of this work was done in a very ad hoc fashion, with no set procedures for how to make decisions (doing proper trade-off studies, etc). We are currently trying to organise ourselves a bit better so we can work more efficiently – you can see the beginnings of this at this page, outlining our fledgeling engineering process. As part of this process, we are thinking of making the first stage of large projects (like CLLARE) consist of people submitting proposals for broad-level solutions to the project's requirements. After a certain date, the proposals will be voted on, and the engineering process will be applied to the most popular proposal. You can read our discussions on getting this proposal system up and running in this forum thread (toward the end) and (more specifically) this forum thread. If this plan goes ahead (and I suspect it will), all of the preliminary work done on CLLARE so far will be "downgraded" to one proposal. This proposal is fairly detailed, you can read a thorough summary of it in this document. There is only one other proposal with any kind of detail so far, you can read about it in this thread.
Anyway, have a look around, check out the forums and the Wiki, ask any questions you may have, pop into our IRC channel if you like, etc. Please let us know which parts of CSTART you find most and least interesting and where you think your skills will be most useful. We would love to see you fit into the community well and find something you can enjoy working on.
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Main CLLARE workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.
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1:43 am
March 25, 2010
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brmj
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Welcome to the team. That looks like a great skill set. You have pretty much exactly what we need.
In addition to the projects Luke mentioned, it looks like we might be absorbing the reddit cubesat team as a third project at some point. They come with a comunity of their own, though, so even if this happens, the current CSTART projects would probably be the best place to focus your efforts for now.
What Luke said pretty much sums up the important tings I would want to cover, so I'll pretty much leave it at that. Once again, though, if you have any questions, comments, suggestions or concerns, please don't hesitate to make them known.
I look forward to working with you.
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Main work groups: Propulsion (booster), Spacecraft Engineering, Computer Systems, Navigation and Guidance (software)
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9:02 am
March 25, 2010
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Rocket-To-The-Moon
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Welcome to the team and congratulations on being the 100th forum member! It goes without saying that your skills are very welcomed. A lot of preliminary work has been done on OHKLA, but with talks of getting started working on the motor, now is the time to begin detailed engineering work on the structure of the rocket body itself. We are also in the process of working out a partnership to develop the navigation and telemetry hardware so we are to the point where we have some push toward all of the main components.
Again, welcome to the team.
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Main Workgroups: Propulsion & Spacecraft Engineering
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11:20 am
March 25, 2010
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hayburg
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Sounds fantastic. I'm really interested in working on the structural design of the rocket.
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12:58 pm
March 25, 2010
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rpulkrabek
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I'd also like to welcome you here. I am also a mechanical engineer. I have done quite a bit of the design work the OHKLA rocket. What software are you familiar with for CAD and FEA? If you are going to work for SpaceX, I would assume Siemens NX for CAD and Ansys for FEA. Am I correct? I have been using Pro/ENGINEER for CAD and Ansys for FEA, because what we are using at my work. I have uploaded the CAD documents to our repository, although they need to be updated once we determine diameters and lengths needed for the fuel and oxidizer. I had planned on also creating these in NX. It would be nice to have a format that others would be able to contribute with too.
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