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- All documents must be uploaded to your website in advance of the Gate Review - Complete
- The team should not use gate review time to conduct a detailed examination of specific deliverables unless related to discussion items in the status review - Complete
- Is prototype hand-off complete, is the team's workspace cleaned up, and have all tools been returned? - Complete Complete (Prototype handed to MSD team)
Lessons learned, etc.
- What advice would you give to future teams?
- Vishvam: Obtain concrete customer requirements early saves a great deal of time early. Having a data sheet is greatly important.
- Kate: Simpler designs are preferred. Once designs become complicated, greater risks follow. Meeting with subject matter experts helps guide the design process. Environments that we were not well acquainted with needed to be considered - such as a vacuum.
- August: Use your simulation results to plan for physical tests. Double check for shorts and other easy to miss but very troublesome issues. Think carefully about what components you might need to replace.
- Sam: Begin the prototyping process and design process early. Rapid prototyping is extremely important in design iteration. A team would likely learn more with having several iterative prototypes than they would with one prototype where the design is frozen prior to testing.
- Brandon: Have a more realistic scope for the project to begin with. Our scope narrowed significantly between the beginning of the first semester and what we ended up doing. We initially started with researching communications, thrusters, and other components which we did not have the time to do. We should have been more conservative when considering the number of employees on a team for NASA or SpaceX.