Status updates!

Alright, I'm going to give some updates about what's going on with our senior project.  Designs continue forward we just bought a 6 degree-of-freedom program to determine where our rocket is going to land when we launch it and it's been having problems.  We are currently talking with their technical support to get it fixed.  Hopefully it will get resolved quickly.  Also we are currently in process of getting clearance for our launch in March both from the FAA and the Black Rock Nevada park.  We just found out that we may have to get the police to close off the lake bed during the launch and recovery, at our cost! That could be a problem, we are going to ask to see if the local police there will volunteer their time to help us out.  If you know someone in the police department with connections let us know!  Also we are pleased to add a new sponsor to our project. Steve's Intermountain Service Center. Thanks for the help, we are willing to accept any donations no matter how big or small they may seem!  Let us know if you'd like to contribute. Check out www.stevesintermountain.com for more information on them. More to come on some of the demos we've been doing lately.

AIAA Presentation and results

A couple weeks ago we did a presentation for AIAA which is the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.  It went really well, thanks to everyone involved!  Victor Ruiz is the local student chapter of the AIAA and he set up the meeting for us, he is also an mechanical engineering student on the airframe team.  We are currently working with Northrop Grumman through AIAA and will be receiving a donation from them soon!  We'd like to thank everyone over there at Northrop for believing in us and hope to gain even more support so that we can finish up this exciting project. Here's a picture from the presentation:

Left to Right: Brandon Terry, Justin Cote, Victor Ruiz, Danielle Hudson, Rachelle Heiselmeyer, and Kelvin Bailey