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- Better packing lists.
- Clearer organization by subteam - which exact tools are which? make sure tools aren't doubled
- Easy way to add/remove things to packing list
- Serialize boxes for prelaunch / flight - log which tools are in which box
- Clearer enforcement of packing for transit so we don't lose items and/or become disorganized during transit
- Add specific sets of flight spares for small parts
- Go-nogo poll
- Faster/clearer who to ask for each go/nogo
- Multiple boxes for each item – several opportunities
- Easy way to log attempts (misfires are likely)
- Altimeter state at launch
- Temp/wind speed/direction at launch
- Tie roles in more distinctly throughout Launch Ops
- Make quality/consistency integration checklists better across subteams
- Pad cameras were very difficult on launch day:
- Lack of training
- Lack of knowledge of which cameras were available and exact placement of each type of camera
- No documentation of aluminum foil shades/sunshields for cameras
- Roles not enforced strongly from the beginning
- We did a verbal walkthrough of the rocket prior to launch – might be nice to have
- Data recovery was not well-enforced. We took a lot of checkout photos but it's not clear how many of them made it back
Structural changes to acheive changes:
- Table of contents
- Better packing lists
- Spreadsheet for transit tracking
- By box & list of missing items
- Single master sheet on cloud --> sharable and traceable
- Assign spreadsheet manager(s) for launch and enforce that they do their job
- Color-coding tape & boxes by subteam to enforce accountability (with general category)
- Each tool or item has a designated spot
- "Master Key" all tools and all boxes
- Add specific sets of flight spares for small parts
- If a part is <$50? (Jakob&Julia?) or single point failure? get 2x
- Link boxes to cars for launch site transit
- Or a column for "vehicle" – FedEx or Jakob's car or On Foot... how does it get from A -> B (if applicable)
- Pre-transit checklists
- Print checklist with food, water, fuel, cash for tolls, small first-aid kit... etc (common across cars)
- Open area to write down which rocket parts/boxes go in cars
- Spreadsheet for transit tracking
- Go-nogo
- Full page of GO-NOGO that is very clear to see
- Is a checklist with checkboxes to fill and roles to call GO-NOGO for certain fields
- Multiple copies of this page in large print
- Launch attempt number: __ is a field
- New Fields:
- Altimeter state at launch
- number of satellite
- Temp/wind speed/direction at launch
- Time & date
- Some way to connect launch attempt with video files
- Altimeter startup time
- Camera startup time
- Liftoff time (seconds)
- Altimeter state at launch
- Tie roles in more distinctly throughout Launch Ops
- Train people for their roles at rehearsals
- Define windows of "useful roles" vs "free hands"
- MUST BE DONE BY: XYZ? i.e. Julia calls FAA
- Ask Jakob & Julia
- Make quality/consistency integration checklists better across subteams
- ENFORCING CHECKOUT PHOTOS
- Assign a role for that & have a "Master Key" of checkout photos needed for flight
- Checkout photos are GO-NOGO criteria
- AVI: More detail on programming of altimeters on the integration checklist
- Prop & Struc: Torque spec on bolts, Torque stripe all bolts
- Keep checkout photos in bold
- Get rid of ambiguity (e.g. what does "Secure" mean? Pull test? Wobble test? ??)
- ENFORCING CHECKOUT PHOTOS
- Pad Cameras
- Identify Pad Cameras & order them (How much money do we have to do this???)
- ID each camera and show where it should be placed
- Make sunshades for each camera
- Enforce roles & train for roles
- Add in Camera setup if necessary
- Add in "take photo of camera running with your phone"
- Identify when pad cameras should be turned on and someone from the Pad should signal when that time is
- After altimeter & onboard camera startup complete
- Add in verbal walkthrough of integration checklists?
- Data Recovery
- Checkout photos - see above
- File management scheme: What do you name your files and where do they go so they can be found
- Expand post-launch checklist - add in roles for all subsystems
- Enforce roles!! Launch is not done until this is completed
- In the Event of...
- Premature loss of control in flight, etc... proceed to ballistic recovery
- Medical Emergency
- Rocket otherwise becomes dangerous?
- Go over failure modes at the launch site before flight – add to preflight on-site meeting / safety review thing (in a Kahoot?)
- Other TODO:
- Ask Jakob & Julia questions from this sheet
- Andrew & Jamie make structure for packing lists but DO NOT FILL IN ANY ITEMS
- Get teamleads to start working on their packing lists after structure is made
Added 9/24:
- Pre-transit driver checklists
- One car ran out of gas on the way to the launch site, risking safety and delaying launch
- Prevent with list of things.
- Gas, food, water, list of riders (or # of riders), list of rocket components
- PRE-PRINT and give to drivers
- Maybe have matrix of rocket component / tool boxes (serialized earlier) to car number.
- Structural change idea:
- Minimize "launch ops" parts to the pad preparations in parallel with final integration onsite and the "pad setup" portion
- Pad setup == pad camera setup, rocket vertical
- Prelaunch == arm avionics, turn on cameras, arm propulsion
- Launch == go/nogo & contingencies
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