The team is home safe and sound. We had a big push at Area 42 last weekend. Seven plasma engine tests, 3 rocket flights testing a gliding parachute and a lot of site work getting ready for the Away 136 balloon mission.
What’s Happening at JPA
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Sub Upgrade
The sub is getting a new “full daylight” monitor. This is the new monitor on the new rotating mounting system…
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Telemetry Madness
New Video:
https://youtube.com/shorts/_YVPRo16QSw?si=XU3F7ziC6b7AfT9t
10,000 messages to the edge space, and back… A short peek at the wildest telemetry mission we’re ever flown.
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New Submarine Sensor Computer
The sub has a new computer for sensors. Sensors are managed at 3 levels. 1st, A&D sensors connected to an Arduino. It handles any big swings, the “reflex” actions. Data then passes to this PC for display, logging, warnings. Then data is bluetoothed to the AI PC for big decisions.
This is the architecture that we will use for the sensor system in the high altitude crew module.
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Build Spaceships!
New Video!
https://youtube.com/shorts/1-qNsIE51Hg?si=G4F-WkMjGoA_7j7O
24 seconds of both a rallying cry and just for fun.
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Submarine Test 3
New Video: https://youtu.be/Bu7vB2WkPv8 Submarine Test 3.
A bit of a higher adventure to mission ratio than I like but the lessons learned were worth it and we lived to tell the tale.
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STEM Launch
New Video Short! https://youtube.com/shorts/yVuQwA6xnM0?si=fEb5XoyXk5mOpDFS
Last December we did a night model rocket launch at Katherine Johnson Middle School for an open house for their new campus. We just may have made some new astronauts that night.
