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- Practice integration with flight team
- Verify electronics can be turned on from outside the rocket, including cameras
- Verify fully integrated pad life
Status:
- Completed Avionics + Recovery Ground Test without cameras
- Refined packing lists
Test 2
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: Launch Rehearsal, 4/13 or 4/14
Scope:
- Pack tools & GSE listed in assembly checklists
- Pre-charge cameras, payload, and ALL altimeter batteries
- Transport only those tools to the hangar
- Assemble Hermes II in the hangar
- Log & acquire any missing tools/GSE
- Put in "Final Integration" state
- Finish integration in hangar
Goals:
- Refine packing lists with finished flight hardware
- Test camera operation while integrated
- Practice rocket integration in alternate location
Test 3: Launch Rehearsal, 4/20, 4/27 and/or 5/4
Scope:
- Pack tools & GSE listed in assembly checklists
- Pre-charge cameras, payload, and ALL altimeter batteries
- Transport Transport only those those tools to the hangar
- Assemble Hermes II in the hangar
- Log & acquire any missing tools/GSE
- Put in "Final Integration" state
- Transport to Briggs Field A with GSE, including test stand as "launch tower"
- Perform Integration & Prelaunch procedures (except igniter, incl. raising to vertical)
- Verify telemetry in launch ready configuration
- Perform "rocket take down" procedures
- "Launch" with telemetry and video during a ground test
- Use recovery procedures to pick up & safe the rocket
- Transport back to lab
- Log all data
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- Loosely simulate launch environment
- Allow extra tools to be obtained easily as long as they are logged
- Determine GSE needed for successful launch/recovery
- Train flight team
Test 4: Launch Simulation, 5/12-13 (stretch goal)
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