@rachaelt316 coming from someone studying mechanical engineering: yeah, you probably made the right choice lol
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@zoi716
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@OmanTheHuman1 Thermo isn’t too bad, I took RIT’s version of thermo 1 in the fall and it was pretty easy and also really fun. Best ratio of difficulty to fun I’ve had in an engineering class so far
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@zoi716 ough I need a machining class but I am overworked as it is. and next semester I have aerodynamics/aero lab and thermo to deal with,,
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Mission options I’m thinking about for my L2 cert rocket:
1) Conformal VLF antenna (might require single-bay dual-deploy reco to have a long section of unbroken tube)
2) lightweight & aim for 15k apogee (just under site ceiling)
3) deployable 360 can payload
Any other ideas?
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@OmanTheHuman1 I got to CNC some gears recently in my intermediate machining class and it was so incredibly satisfying because they were acrylic and it just cut like butter so I got to just stand there and appreciate the machine doing its thing
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@zoi716 hell yeah that's awesome. last excuse I got to play with a CNC was milling the Obelisk for a race our drone team was putting on. they wanted to cut all the wood on a bandsaw, including such wonderful things as a 22.62° angle
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I actually think that the limiting factor for this would be the combined cadence of FH and New Glenn. I don't know if they could launch enough times before 2032 to boost it into a stable orbit.
celia@_petalite
"it needs refueling to keep from falling" just like, send up a booster and throw it out into the solar system or something dude, send it into a solar orbit idgaf, dont kill my fucking wife because its expensive when we spend more money bombing civilians in foreign countries
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@OmanTheHuman1 I got all the 3d printed parts TwT
But I did get to machine one of our linkages, which was really fun because it was just complex enough for me to break out the conversational milling skills but not quite enough to have to like deal with annoying CAM stuff
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@zoi716 🔥🔥🔥 god I need an excuse to work on hardware like that. I'm sick of plastic and 3d prints, let me play with the tormach
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@OmanTheHuman1 I spent a long time on the night before our CDR standardizing the entire airbrakes system around M3 and M5 and it has been incredible for my ability to not lose my sanity during testing
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@zoi716 M2x40 is criminal what the hell
also yes M3 is the absolute goat. m6 is also pretty great, I used it a lot in one of my more recent projects
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@OmanTheHuman1 Meanwhile I spent an hour yesterday explaining to an EE why we should not buy M2x40 screws for their questionable avbay design and they should consider using a more sane screw (I have opinions on metric screw sizes, M3 is the goat and I HATE M2 and especially M2.5)
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@zoi716 so real tbh. I only barely understand it bc I'm a drone guy, but I talk to one of the EEs and I'm instantly lost
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@yFactr My rocketry team has a title on each subteam called “systems engineer” which is simply another kind of engineer who just happens to be the subteam’s representative on the systems subteam lol
I’m a mechanical engineer but I get to be called “airbrakes systems engineer”
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they're called "systems engineers" because nobody trusts them with anything more dangerous than a screenshot of a CAD model of the actual hardware
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@OmanTheHuman1 Yeah I think so? But to be fair when our avi people speak I understand about every fifth word they say so I could be wrong
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@zoi716 oh that's funny. does that mean they're using 5.8 for telem??? sounds suboptimal
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@OmanTheHuman1 Its weird now bc as far as I understand at IREC this year they allocated the frequency we usually use for VTX to hybrids telemetry I think so we’re not allowed to actually transmit video and have to just demonstrate on the ground that it could theoretically transmit in flight
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@zoi716 oh that's sick. our team was thinking about doing it last year, altho I left before I found out how that went
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@OmanTheHuman1 Ooooo good one. My competition team flies VTXs like every year so I would have people to help me figure it out
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@Orbital_Perigee @SpaceArchivist_ Hmmm… maybe I will spend my tax return on one…..
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@maneuvermogged I want to up the ante from my L1 payload which was in itself pretty cool (test hardware/software for the competition rocket’s airbrakes)
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Two 4th-year EEs on my team had to have me, a 2nd-year MECE, explain wire gauge to them
robin ★@pynchceo
this is what group work feels like in college
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