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4:03 pm
January 11, 2010
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SpaceMonkeyCU
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Hello CSTART,
I hope everybody enjoyed their holidays. I found your organization through Reddit, and I became highly interested in offering my skills, ideas, and insights. I am a recent college graduate, now working full-time. I have a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering. My course experiences directly related to the objectives of this agency (particularly the current projects, OHKLA and CLLARE) include:
- Serving as the mission design specialist on a Spacecraft Design team, with a fictional goal of returning a Martian soil sample to Earth
- Designing a CubeSat, a small 10x10x10 cm cube, to deliver a payload to an altitude beyond 30 km via weather balloon
- Course topics: Aerodynamics, Thermodynamics, Propulsion, Structures and Materials, Orbital Mechanics, Dynamics, Electronics
I look forward to offering any and all help that I can, as well as learning more along the way!
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4:35 pm
January 11, 2010
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Luke Maurits
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Welcome! It is fantastic to have you onboard, we are in desparate need of people like yourself, particularly with CLLARE (OHKLA I think we will mostly try to attract the attention of amateur rocketry people for).
How much have you read up on CLLARE so far? At the moment there is a lot of stuff somewhat scattered around the place. If you like I can try to throw you together a list of links to relevant things you may like to read. We'd love to hear your thoughts on every aspect of the project!
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Main CLLARE workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.
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4:50 pm
January 11, 2010
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SpaceMonkeyCU
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Post edited 10:51 pm – January 11, 2010 by SpaceMonkeyCU
So far, I have only just begun browsing the Forum and Wiki. I'm still familiarizing myself with the organization of information, but I should begin contributing very soon. Also, I forgot to mention my non-technical expertise:
- Advanced knowledge of MATLAB / Simulink
- Intermediate knowledge of C++ and Visual Basic
- Intermediate knowledge of Photoshop / photo editing, as well as movie making (using Windows Movie Maker and iMovie)
- Basic CAD knowledge, although I do not currently own a license to any CAD software
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4:53 pm
January 11, 2010
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Luke Maurits
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Great! Let me know if you have any questions about anything, I'll try to make it as easy as possible for you to get up to speed. Things have been changing rapidly lately and the Wiki is probably quite out of date in a lot of places. Hopefully browsing the forums will give you a clearer idea of where we are now.
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Main CLLARE workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.
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5:12 pm
January 11, 2010
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Rocket-To-The-Moon
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You have no idea how nice it is to finally have someone with a specialty degree in a subject that can directly help us. As the project grows in complexity it is critical that we increase our membership so that members can begin to specialize on certain areas.
Once you become familiar with the general goals and operation of CSTART it would do wonders if you could contact some of your buddies who may be interested in helping out. One of our biggest challenges so far is turning the energy online to the real world so that physical objects can be built.
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Main Workgroups: Propulsion & Spacecraft Engineering
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5:34 pm
January 11, 2010
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brmj
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Post edited 4:51 am – January 12, 2010 by brmj
Welcome to the team! You are exactly the sort of person we need to make this succeed. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. If you want a snapshot of where we are right now, there is currently a lot of work going on seeing if we can make the stack for the one launch variant of our mission plan (the one currently favored) fit within the size and mass limits of a Falcon 9 with the standard fairing. This thread has most of the discussion for that. The current stack looks something like this, though the tanks may end up being replaced with a single one with an internal bulkhead to reduce mass and the lander might end up being put in front of the CM to eliminate some of the big, heavy supports that the current design requires. That's just a rough concept render and I don't think it has the actual tank volumes we will need yet, but it ought to give you a rough idea of the sort of things we are thinking.
Update: A new thread on that topic.
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Main work groups: Propulsion (booster), Spacecraft Engineering, Computer Systems, Navigation and Guidance (software)
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