HokieSat ACTION ITEMS

 

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Action

Actionee

Status

Comments

5/23/02

Get HokieSat model into IDEAS

Belcher

CLOSED

 

5/23/02

Determine connector and component pin outs of Panel 2

Einsmann

CLOSED

Done as much as can with info that we have. Need 1 WB info and info from USU

5/23/02

Test solar cells outside and inside using lamp

Pressl, Skelton

CLOSED

Testing completed on 5/31. Need to send Swenson and Tyler an email.

5/23/02

Sort fasteners

Lennox

CLOSED

Have 6 boxes now. Assembly team working on getting them into the clean room.

5/23/02

Clean the clean room so it can be used

Hibbert

CLOSED

Cleaned, going to clean once a week.

5/23/02

Clean side panels and place in clean room

Assembly Team

CLOSED

In clean room on 6/10

5/30/02

Get people roof certified

Lennox, Skelton, Ginde, Kumar, H. Kim

CLOSED

Respirators are in.

6/6/02

Check IO board connector with connector on the board to make sure they fit. Dawgstar had a problem with this

Jones, Ginde, Kumar

CLOSED

Need to order new one if we can not find it.

6/6/02

Test solar cells for power output

Gilliom, Pressl, Skelton

CLOSED

Completed. Results in power directory on website

6/6/02

GPS wire lengths to wiring team

Lennox

CLOSED

Completed

6/13/02

Determine connector and component pin outs of Panel 3 and 4

Einsmann

CLOSED

Done as much as possible

6/13/02

Meeting on July 4 moved to July 2

 

CLOSED

Meeting is on July 2 at 2:30 pm in Rand 221.

6/20/02

Send USU and Cornell their GPS cables/connectors from the first order.

Schwartz, Lennox

CLOSED

Sent on 6/27

6/27/02

Send the downlink patch antenna and the science patch cable lengths to Joel at USU.

Schwartz, Jones

CLOSED

Sent 7/29/02.

7/9/02

Did we send the IO board and the backplane traveler to USU with the boards??

Kumar, Lennox

CLOSED

Package arrived at USU on 7/11 and backplane traveler sent on 7/11

7/11/02

Need to get TC and comm wire lengths to the wiring team

Pressl, Schwartz

CLOSED

 

6/20/02

Compile wiring and connector questions for USU and Cornell

Jones, Schwartz, Einsmann

CLOSED

 

6/27/02

Order Bbox epoxy (Stycast 2850 FT with Catalyst #9) and 20 gauge wire

M. Kim

CLOSED

Epxoy has arrived with CofC. Wire delivered 8/9

8/8/02

Send Fall semester schedules to Lennox to set up a meeting time.

EVERYONE

CLOSED

Meetings at 2:30 on Friday for the semester.

7/18/02

Goddard people coming to visit us.

Lennox, Hall, Schwartz

CLOSED

Tuesday August 20. Everyone in the lab to meet them. Hall will send out an email.

5/23/02

Urelane battery box

M. Kim, Schwartz

CLOSED

Completed 8/23/02

5/23/02

Figure out the 1 WB

Jones

CLOSED

 

5/23/02

Software

Berry, Ginde, VanDyke, H. Kim

 

Move into sub action items

8/30/02

Disassemble the structure and components

Assembly team

CLOSED

Get done this week.

5/23/02

Determine GPS antenna mounting and placement

Ginde, Lennox

CLOSED

Ground plane needs to be 70 square mm. Epoxy has arrived.

7/2/02

Can fasteners be used to attach skins to isogrid?

Lennox

CLOSED

Yes if we can go into stay out zones. Need feed back from GSFC

8/1/02

Determine what needs to be done with ground station antennas

Lennox, Pressl, Ginde, Skelton, Kumar

CLOSED

Uplink antenna mounted.

8/30/02

Set up a time for Orbital wiring class

Hall, Lennox, Wiring Team, M. Kim

CLOSED

September 17 or 19. Waiting for Hall to determine.

6/6/02

Design and fab new torque coil mounts

Lennox

CLOSED

Out of shop. Needs to be iridited. Waiting for other Al parts.

6/27/02

Order new GPS crosslink cables

Schwartz, Lennox

CLOSED

Ordered. Should come arrive in Oct.

6/27/02

Order epoxy (Dow Corning 93-500 silicon) to fix solar cell cover glass

Lennox, Schwartz

CLOSED

Have procedure. Needs to be done. Pressl and Winiski will help. Do this on 9/23

9/6/02

Fix tapped structural hole in side panel

Lennox

CLOSED

 

9/27/02

Clean side panels

Assembly Team

CLOSED

 

9/6/02

Onboard time keeping

Berry, Paul

CLOSED

USU is taking care of this.

5/23/02

Finish CEE base plate

Homb

CLOSED

Done, need to iridite

9/6/02

Clean fasteners

Assembly team

CLOSED

One box left to clean.

5/23/02

Design and fab new GPS bracket

Lennox, Homb

CLOSED

Done, need to iridite.

5/23/02

Determine materials and components for bake out, schedule time with Goddard

Lennox

CLOSED

Can take materials to Orbital. Going to bake out the pigmat soon and the boards later.

5/23/02

Test ground station radios

Ginde, Kumar

CLOSED

This is on hold for the moment.

9/19/02

Pigmat Bakeout

Skelton

CLOSED

Going up over Thanskgiving break.

11/8/02

Need to get 200°C wire from USU for battery box.

Lennox

CLOSED

Got some from A. E. Petsche

11/8/02

Move clean room.

EVERYONE

CLOSED

Done

12/6/02

Send your spring schedules to Lennox so that a meeting time can be setup for next semester.

EVERYONE

CLOSED

Email me at slennox@vt.edu

12/6/02

Power team needs to have a meeting

Gilliom, Schenck, Lee, Kim, Cardoza

CLOSED

Tentative time is set for 2:30 on Tuesday. Let Lennox know if this will not work for you.

5/23/02

How, when to install helicoils

Pedraza, Lennox

CLOSED

Pedraza and Lennox have done this. Need to install helicoils right before final assembly.

9/6/02

Compile a new fastener order

Lennox

CLOSED

Sent into to GSFC

1/21/03

Repair solar cell cover glass

Lennox, Pressl

CLOSED

 

2/18/03

Fit check APL boxes with brackets

Lennox, Pedraza

CLOSED

 

7/9/02

Fix rate gyro board with Tom Mattick’s solution

VanDyke, Lee

CLOSED

Gyro board is tested and works.

5/23/02

Hole in honeycomb for monopole fasteners

Homb, Pedraza

CLOSED

Drawing is in Shop

9/6/02

GPS patch antenna ground plane

Homb, Lennox

CLOSED

Work order is in the shop.

9/27/02

Get loop antenna mounts into shop

Lennox

CLOSED

In shop.

2/25/03

Make a list of things good, things that need to be done and big problems for the software team

Software team

CLOSED

Berry sent out to ION-F software listserv on 2/28/03

2/25/03

Ask Steve if he can fix the power supply in the tracking lab.

Einsmann

CLOSED

Steve says he cleaned it and it is working.

5/30/02

Testing of Magnetometer

Pressl, VanDyke

CLOSED

Complete

11/1/02

Do we have all needed parts to make flight TC and power boards???

Pressl, Gilliom, Schenck

CLOSED

Parts are in.

3/11/03

Progress of items in shop

Lennox

CLOSED

Loop antenna mounts, patch antenna ground plane, and holes in the honeycomb are complete.

3/25/03

Who is going to be here this summer and what will they be working on?

Everyone

CLOSED

Send an email to Lennox with your plans.

5/23/02

Define thermal nodes and material properties for components

Belcher, Langone,

Open

Model is done. Need some kind of MLI to cover zenith and nadir panels. Belcher needs to send his documentation to Lennox.

5/23/02

Prototype battery pack

M. Kim, Lee

Open

Need to complete charge tests of different pack configurations to get max temps that the batteries will see. Need to call Ken and Michelle about the battery test plans. Emailed Michelle with questions on programming in Labview.

5/23/02

Get flight loop antenna from Christian (450MHz ± 500kHz)

Lennox, Hall

Open

Has a prototype working using the big mounts. Will be handing prototype over to Lennox soon. Need to vibe it to make sure it is structurally sound.

5/23/02

Integration of computer boards

Einsmann

Open

Loaded a program and trying to run it. CPU board does not work. CPU board layout has been sent to Gilliom. Gilliom thinks that it might be the power conditioning chip. Aroh has pointed out the power pins. We need to figure out what went wrong.

5/23/02

Determine CEE cage modifications for wires and connectors

Jones

Open

Depends on if we are going to get the science board from Utah.

5/23/02

Determine procedure for thermal cycling on boards

Skelton, Belcher, Pedraza, Hibbert

Open

Got a vacuum. Need to put 50 connectors in the face plate. Need to find some time in the shop to make the face plate.

5/23/02

Prototype and fab power boards

Gilliom, Lee, Cardoza

Open

Test procedures need to be written and sent to Skelton. Need a formal request to VPT. Need VPT part numbers. Can the power board charge the batteries? We might need a 20V 2 Amp op amp to get the circuit working.

5/23/02

Testing relay board

Gilliom

Open

In the process of testing. Waiting for maxim parts. Need to send out to Tom when the tests are complete. Lennox has solution to connector issue.

5/23/02

Design and fab pcb for 1 WB, and TCs

Gilliom, Lee, Cardoza

Open

Need to make a prototype. Gilliom has a few more questions for Jones.

5/23/02

Prototype and fab torque coil board

Schenck, Lee

Open

Testing is complete. Layout has been updated. Test plans complete. Need to order new flight PCB.

5/30/02

Determine what testing can be done and should be done

Skelton

Open

Waiting for test plans. Structural test with Dr. Wicks?? Resend email.

6/6/02

Fab GSE top hat for assembly team

Pedraza, Homb, Hibbert

Open

Main part done. Extender needs to be made.

6/20/02

Update of the assembly procedure

Hibbert

Open

On hold.

7/11/02

Determine a product that can be used for a thermal path from different board components to the CEE cage

Belcher, Lennox

Open

We could use the COTHERM that we are looking at with the bbox.

7/11/02

Power budget and sim.

Aoyagi

Open

The power draw needs to stay below 19.2 W. Trying to get it into tasks.

8/1/02

Find the FPGA from Chad

Gilliom

Open

Lennox is trying to figure out what to do on this. Gilliom needs to send me the information on the FPGA that was supposed to be supplied.  

8/15/02

Write test plans

Gilliom, Schenck, Lee

Open

Lee has sent Eugene the TC test plan. Gilliom is working on the one for the power board.

8/22/02

Need 2nd tower for downlink?

Lennox, Langone

Open

Hall’s has the list of things needed for the tower.

8/30/02

Update of Mass SS

Pressl

Open

Updated 030321. Need to update the connectors and fasteners.

8/30/02

Update drawing package

Lennox, Zullo

Open

A few more need to be done. Zullo is working on Bbox drawings.

9/6/02

Attitude determination software

VanDyke

Open

Updating Kalman Filter with a new Rate Gyros idea.  Debugging and writing into a task at the moment.

9/6/02

Orbit and attitude control

Berry, H. Kim, Turner

Open

Need to look through them. Need to switch to mean elements, include more maneuvers and add power. Need to work on Task manager and timing. Have it working with the orbital class

9/6/02

Overall software arch

Berry, Turner, Paul

Open

We need to get our messaging program running. Turner is working on his simulator. Needs to test AD software. Have a global spacecraft class.

9/6/02

PCM matrix

Lennox, Turner, Berry, Samir

Open

We have a new one. Need to get together and discus. Need someone that understands comm and its software. Lennox is making a list of measurements to send to ground station.

10/11/02

The effect of the nadir pointing angle on comm.

Lagone, Turner, Hall

Open

We need to just get a DL antenna with a big field of view.

10/18/02

Make a trip to EPR for iridite

Lennox

Open

Sometime in this next week.

10/25/02

Order new PCBs for Power boards, TC board, 1 WB, TC.

Gilliom, Schenck

Open

Split into two orders. One for the PCBs and one for the boards. Wait until battery test on power board is complete.

11/22/02

Wiring Team

Lennox

Open

Have a few more pinouts to figure out with the I/O and power boards. Grounding scheme looks to be good.

1/21/03

Determine placement of four fasteners in side panels

Pedraza, Homb

Open

Have this started. Need to finish. Lennox sent an email.

1/21/03

Determine how to apply accelerometers to nadir and zenith panels

Pedraza, Lennox

Open

Cornell is looking into what accelerometer to use.

1/21/03

Buy cotherm for the battery boxes

Lennox

Open

On hold until after the thermal test on the battery box.

2/25/03

Fix GPS bracket 2

Lennox

Open

Lennox needs to get it into the shop

2/25/03

Crosslink cables

Lennox

Open

All cables have been assigned. The cables have been sent. Waiting for them to come back.

3/25/03

Fix uplink antenna on roof

Lennox, Skelton, Pressl, Edwards

Open

Waiting until classes are over

3/25/03

Get a few new people certified

Lennox

Open

Have Van Dyke and Turner get certified to work on the roof.

4/8/03

Formation Flying software

 

Open