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Payload
- DARWIN
- Assemble DARWIN
- Complete DARWIN support software
- XBee configured
- XBee ground library complete and integrated with ground software
- Complete DARWIN testing
- hardware checkouts
- full integration test with ground software
- Rig 2nd DARWIN to use as ground receiver
- Connect to Teensy 4.1 w/ Ethernet kit
- Wiring harness
- Flight computers → arming switches → batteries
- Camera → DARWIN
- VTX → DARWIN
- Batteries → DARWIN
- Antenna mounts / cabling
- BigRedBee Antennas Mounted
- L-Band
- 70cm
- DARWIN Antenna Mounted
- 900MHz
- BigRedBee Antennas Mounted
- Chute bay
- Chute bay welded
- Lid manufactured
- Eyebolt inserted
- Chute bay attached
- Side plates
- Find where the acrylic went
- Cut acrylic & mount in slots
- Sabot
- Manufacture
- Drill vent/switch holes
- Video system test
- Tracking test
- Deployment test
IREC Avionics
- Structures
- Cut/glue end caps
- Cut sleds
- Cut coupler tube
- Drill mounting/switch holes in coupler tube
- Integration
- Drill mounting/switch holes in tube
- Drill cable passthroughs (2 per bulkhead)
- Test integration with body tube
- Mount electronics
- 2x RRC3
- 2x 2S LiPo
- 2x Screw Switch
- 1x BigRedBee
- L-Band Antenna
- 70cm Antenna
- 2x DE-9 Breakout
- Wiring Harness
- 2x Battery → (Umbilical) Switch → RRC3
- 4x RRC3 → DE-9 → External Cable
- Deployment test
- Outside sabot
- Inside sabot
- Sabot yank
Admin "stuff"
- order screw switches - Will Merges
- order Teensy 4.1 / Ethernet kit for "ground receiver" - Will Merges
- source DE-9 Cables for charges (2 passthroughs per bulkhead)