These are the new magnet brackets for the submarine. We will mount two under the nose and two under the tail. Each gets an electromagnet that will hold a 40 pound emergency drop weight.
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JPA in HobbySpace
HobbySpace has an article about our Kickstartr effort. Check it out!
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JP Aerospace in Air and Space Magazine
There is a great six page article about JPA in the May issue of Air and Space Magazine.
Here’s the link to the on line version:
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New Kickstarter Fund Raising Effort
JPA is crowd sourcing through Kickstarter to fund the September 2014 PongSat mission. We will be flying 2000 PongSat student experiments. We need your help to make it happen. Clink the link and check it out!
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Building Away
Last night we continued sewing frame sleeves on the Ascender 26. The team also repackaged our main flight controller into the Ascender 26 configuration. We did two shock tube firings, both at mach 2.2 and lastly we flipped over the submarine in order to mount the magnetic drop weight system.
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Mach 3
We’ve reached over Mach 3 in our shock tube. We were shooting for conducting our tests at the mach 3 level, however it’s going so well we’re going to try for mach 4.
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Ascender 26
The Ascender 26 airship is moving forward in leaps. We’ve built a external stiffener frame out of carbon tubing. We did an inflation last weekend to verify it’s position.
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Shock Tube at Mach 2.4
The hypersonic shock tube is progressing in leaps and bounds (or should I say waves?). We redesigned the sensors and are now getting much cleaner output. Last Saturday we reached mach 2.4. As soon as we’re over mach 3 we will start the active drag reduction tests.
