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Line 78: − + − + + − Daedalus is our suite of technology development projects. The work done here pushes forwards on our long-term plan for a space shot. Each project will involve some mechanical, electrical, programming and simulations work, so feel free to join any one of them - but each focuses on a different aspect of rocketry. + + − Icarus - Reefed Parachute, '''Lead: Saylor'''+ + − *Icarus is building a rocket with a reefed parachute - one which changes size during flight to adjust the rocket descent. This project will intimately involve: − ** Mechanics and mechanical engineering - designing, simulating and building a deployment mechanism. − ** Mechanics and aerodynamics - designing the parachute and its aerodynamic properties. − ** Electrical engineering - PCB design, electrical integration and programming. Focus on high reliability and low size & power. − Charybdis - Spin Stabilization '''Contact: William'''+ − *Charybdis is building a rocket that spins like a rifle bullet, then stops spinning mid-air to deploy parachutes. + − ** Mechanical engineering - designing reliable deployment mechanism. + − ** Aerodynamics and simulation - designing fin system to create desired spin. − + − Argus - Distributed RF Camera System '''Lead: John''' − − *Argus is building a rocket equipped with a new camera system, allowing us to easily take video (and possibly stream live!) from the interior and exterior of rockets as they fly. − ** Electrical Engineering - circuit board design, electrical integration. − ** Signals - RF & transmission tech. − − − * Structures, '''Lead: Will''' − ** Design and test all airframe hardware − ** Design and build tools for integration of the rocket − ** Ensure all subsystems are designed and build to correct dimensions − * Payload, '''Lead: WANTED''' − ** Design and execute an interesting research project of your choice − ** Design a payload of 8.8lbs to be carried to 30,000ft − * Recovery, '''Lead: Saylor''' − ** Design and sew a parachute and test it to confirm its Coefficient of Drag − ** Design and test a deployment mechanism for our rocket − ** Ensure our rocket comes down in one piece − * Avionics, '''Leads: Sharon, Julea''' {{slack-user|splatt}} {{slack-user|juleachin}} − ** Design, implement, and test all the hardware and software that goes into our flight computers − ** Design and manufacture structures for avionics bay and work with other subteams to implement interfaces and integration processes − ** Design and test radio communications system for our rocket to talk to the ground − ** Write software to parse and visualize data, build a protective cooling case for laptops & other electronics so they don't die in the blazing desert heat and dust (yes there's a story here) − * Launch Operations, '''Lead: Tylor Jilk''' − ** Work with each subteam to coordinate and prepare launch materials − ** Plan & execute travel and launch logistics − ** Oversee launch procedures, checklists, and go/no calls − ** Many more additional projects for ground support designable around personal interests − * Simulations, '''Lead: Ruqayya''' − ** Develop computer simulations to predict the flight path of our rocket − ** Inform the decision making of the team with analysis of motors, weights and design − − Line 144:
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As you can see from the length of this list, there will always be more SSI to do than you will have hours in a day, week, month, or year -- don't feel pressured to overextend yourself! If you have questions, are feeling overwhelmed, or just want to chat with someone, don't hesitate to reach out to a leadership member. ''SSI exists for, and because of, its members (that's you.) Your sanity, health, and overall well-being always come first.''
As you can see from the length of this list, there will always be more SSI to do than you will have hours in a day, week, month, or year -- don't feel pressured to overextend yourself! If you have questions, are feeling overwhelmed, or just want to chat with someone, don't hesitate to reach out to a leadership member. ''SSI exists for, and because of, its members (that's you.) Your sanity, health, and overall well-being always come first.''
= Mars =
== Mars ==
Team Leads: {{Slack-user|@shreya garg=Shreya Garg|@Kylie=Kylie Holland}}
Team Leads: {{Slack-user|@shreya garg=Shreya Garg|@Kylie=Kylie Holland}}
This subteam won an opportunity to send an experiment to the ISS via SPOCS (Student Payload Opportunity with Citizen Science), a NASA design competition. We will send a payload that will test how BSC dries in microgravity aboard the International Space Station, which will provide valuable data to compare with ground experiments, hopefully shedding light on the material’s usage on the Moon and Mars.<span data-stringify-type="paragraph-break" class="c-mrkdwn__br"></span>Over the next year, we will process data and publish results from our ISS experiment. Additionally, we will finish designing our brick-making machine and start testing and iterating! This project would be particularly well suited for people interested in urban studies/housing, chemical engineering, materials science, MechE, EE, CS, and product design, as well as anyone who loved playing in mud puddles as a kid!
This subteam won an opportunity to send an experiment to the ISS via SPOCS (Student Payload Opportunity with Citizen Science), a NASA design competition. We will send a payload that will test how BSC dries in microgravity aboard the International Space Station, which will provide valuable data to compare with ground experiments, hopefully shedding light on the material’s usage on the Moon and Mars.<span data-stringify-type="paragraph-break" class="c-mrkdwn__br"></span>Over the next year, we will process data and publish results from our ISS experiment. Additionally, we will finish designing our brick-making machine and start testing and iterating! This project would be particularly well suited for people interested in urban studies/housing, chemical engineering, materials science, MechE, EE, CS, and product design, as well as anyone who loved playing in mud puddles as a kid!
= Balloons =
== Balloons ==
'''Please see the [[Balloons]] page for more info.'''
'''Please see the [[Balloons]] page for more info.'''
== HABMC ==
=== HABMC ===
'''Please see the [https://ssi-wiki.stanford.edu/HABMC HABMC] page for more info.'''
'''Please see the [https://ssi-wiki.stanford.edu/HABMC HABMC] page for more info.'''
Team Lead: {{slack-user|sunet-id = richchen|display-name=Richard Chen}}
HABMC is SSI's in-house developed web-based High Altitude Balloon Mission Control (HABMC) platform. From here, we can track our balloons all over the world, streaming live telemetry data from onboard sensors and controlling the balloons altitude and trajectory by sending commands. Infinitely adaptable and expandable, HABMC allows balloons to launch a diverse set of payload types and receive data ''from'' anywhere in the world, ''to'' anywhere in the world. HABMC can be found [https://habmc.stanfordssi.org/flight here.]
HABMC is SSI's in-house developed web-based High Altitude Balloon Mission Control (HABMC) platform. From here, we can track our balloons all over the world, streaming live telemetry data from onboard sensors and controlling the balloons altitude and trajectory by sending commands. Infinitely adaptable and expandable, HABMC allows balloons to launch a diverse set of payload types and receive data ''from'' anywhere in the world, ''to'' anywhere in the world. HABMC can be found [https://habmc.stanfordssi.org/flight here.]
== Cycloon ==
=== Cycloon ===
Team Lead:
'''Please see the [https://ssi-wiki.stanford.edu/Cycloon Cycloon] page for more info.'''
Team Lead: {{slack-user|sunet-id = hagop|display-name=Hagop Chinchinian}}
Balloons launched by SSI from California have flown over three continents and two oceans. What better way to leverage these high-precision, long-endurance flight capabilities than to fly into and collect data from hurricanes, nature’s most awe-inspiring and destructive storms?
Balloons launched by SSI from California have flown over three continents and two oceans. What better way to leverage these high-precision, long-endurance flight capabilities than to fly into and collect data from hurricanes, nature’s most awe-inspiring and destructive storms?
Our task is exciting and ambitious, and a ton of cool challenges await. Want to design lightweight, power-optimized embedded systems? Have a ham radio license and ideas for scaling up data downlink? Interested in inventing new search and optimization algorithms? Just love meteorology and want to direct engineering efforts for a scientific objective? Can’t wait to see the day when the next NHC advisory means dozens of balloons launched within 48 hours? We can’t either! Join Cycloon to develop cutting-edge technology, perform important scientific research, and create a meaningful impact on the world!
Our task is exciting and ambitious, and a ton of cool challenges await. Want to design lightweight, power-optimized embedded systems? Have a ham radio license and ideas for scaling up data downlink? Interested in inventing new search and optimization algorithms? Just love meteorology and want to direct engineering efforts for a scientific objective? Can’t wait to see the day when the next NHC advisory means dozens of balloons launched within 48 hours? We can’t either! Join Cycloon to develop cutting-edge technology, perform important scientific research, and create a meaningful impact on the world!
== Balloonerang ==
=== Balloonerang ===
'''Please see the [https://ssi-wiki.stanford.edu/Balloonerang Balloonerang] page for more info.'''
Team Lead: {{slack-user|sunet-id = rsanda|display-name=Rohan Sanda}}
Retrieving payloads is just as important as launching them. Balloonerang tackles the challenge of payload recovery with a single, integrated, guided recovery system, simulating when aerodynamics, mechanical, and controls work become inseparable. It is the newest and fastest growing balloons team.
Retrieving payloads is just as important as launching them. Balloonerang tackles the challenge of payload recovery with a single, integrated, guided recovery system, simulating when aerodynamics, mechanical, and controls work become inseparable. It is the newest and fastest growing balloons team.
A Balloonerang payload is launched to near-space and then autonomously glides to land near the outskirts of inhabited areas, reducing time and cost of recovery operations. This stubby glider spends up to a week in the freezing upper atmosphere, ballasting weight, recharging batteries with onboard solar panels, keeping itself and the payload warm, and communicating important data back to Earth with its satellite radio system. When it’s time to terminate the mission, the glider severs its connection to the balloon and zipps back to earth at over 70mph, fighting hundred mile per hour jetstreams, stabilizing itself in high altitude turbulence, and guiding itself to a mission defined recovery site. At 400 feet above the ground, the glider deploys the parachute and descends safely to the ground. Whew! What a journey! And what an adventure for you to go on!
A Balloonerang payload is launched to near-space and then autonomously glides to land near the outskirts of inhabited areas, reducing time and cost of recovery operations. This stubby glider spends up to a week in the freezing upper atmosphere, ballasting weight, recharging batteries with onboard solar panels, keeping itself and the payload warm, and communicating important data back to Earth with its satellite radio system. When it’s time to terminate the mission, the glider severs its connection to the balloon and zips back to earth at over 70mph, fighting hundred mile per hour jetstreams, stabilizing itself in high altitude turbulence, and guiding itself to a mission defined recovery site. At 400 feet above the ground, the glider deploys the parachute and descends safely to the ground. Whew! What a journey! And what an adventure for you to go on!
If you’re interested in CAD design, board fabrication, data visualization, aerodynamics, optimizing flight paths, or anything electronics, Balloonerang has a place for you to shine. Join this tight knit team to experience a little bit of everything: flight control algorithms, complex mechanical design, and hands-on electrical engineering experience.
If you’re interested in CAD design, board fabrication, data visualization, aerodynamics, optimizing flight paths, or anything electronics, Balloonerang has a place for you to shine. Join this tight knit team to experience a little bit of everything: flight control algorithms, complex mechanical design, and hands-on electrical engineering experience.
== ValBal ==
=== ValBal ===
'''Note: the below project is no longer active in SSI. Please see the [[Balloons]] page for an updated list of projects.'''
'''Note: the below project is no longer active in SSI. Please see the [[Balloons]] page for an updated list of projects.'''
ValBal (Valve and Ballast), is a world record-breaking high-altitude balloon payload that autonomously maintains a set altitude for days of flight by venting helium gas and dropping ballast. If you are interested in MechE, EE, CS, Physics, or even MatSci or ChemE, there's a place for you on the ValBal team!
ValBal (Valve and Ballast), is a world record-breaking high-altitude balloon payload that autonomously maintains a set altitude for days of flight by venting helium gas and dropping ballast. If you are interested in MechE, EE, CS, Physics, or even MatSci or ChemE, there's a place for you on the ValBal team!
*MatSci/ChemE -- '''Lead: Paige Brown'''
*MatSci/ChemE -- '''Lead: Paige Brown'''
ValBal has a '''fatal problem''': latex balloons are quickly weakened by UV radiation and ozone at high altitudes, leading to mission ending failure in just a few days. If this sounds like an interesting problem to you, and you want to be an integral part of helping us circumnavigate the world someday, come help us figure out how to strengthen or alter the latex balloon with s c i e n c e. Contact {{slack-user|paigebrown}} if you're interested!
ValBal has a '''fatal problem''': latex balloons are quickly weakened by UV radiation and ozone at high altitudes, leading to mission ending failure in just a few days. If this sounds like an interesting problem to you, and you want to be an integral part of helping us circumnavigate the world someday, come help us figure out how to strengthen or alter the latex balloon with s c i e n c e. Contact {{slack-user|paigebrown}} if you're interested!
= Rockets =
== Rockets ==
== Daedalus ==
=== Hestia ===
Our newest team, Project Hestia will be starting this Fall! This team will focus on on-campus launching, hopefully launching a rocket right from Lake Lag! We’ll be developing new, nontraditional ways of designing and testing rockets and welcome everyone’s input. Project Hestia has the potential to completely change rocketry for SSI - for the first time ever we can launch right from home. Come bring your out-there ideas and excitement to learn new things as we build a rocket weirder than anything SSI has ever done!
=== Phoenix ===
According to Greek myths, the phoenix is a magnificent bird, famous for bursting into flames and being reborn from the ashes. Project Phoenix is an ambitious competition based rocket with the goal of launching at FAR1030. Project Phoenix is all about firsts. After having completed SSI’s first ever staged rocket, Phoenix is getting ready to fly once again! After a year hiatus, a Phoenix will finally be SSI’s first entry into FAR 1030, and if successful igniting our upper stage for the first time to go higher than we ever have before.
=== Olympus ===
With a goal of launching a rocket to the cruising altitude of an airplane, we strive to push the boundaries of what’s possible in college rocketry. After competing and winning three awards at the Spaceport America Cup in New Mexico, we’ve set our sights on a new challenge: building SSI’s first custom propulsion system and competing in the high-altitude liquid propulsion category.
'''Now for a balloons and rockets crossover...'''
=== Spaceshot ===
Spaceshot is an epic crossover between the rockets and balloons team, and it is SSI’s unconventionally awesome attempt to send a rocket all the way to space. Instead of approaching this problem the way most other schools have, the Spaceshot team is building a rocket/balloon hybrid called a rockoon. A balloon will lift a rocket to 30 km, and from there the rocket will launch all the way to space (100 km)! When we succeed, we’ll be both open-source and the cheapest way to get to space by several orders of magnitude, impacting how people reach space for years to come!
== Satellites ==
== Competition (IREC/SA Cup) ==
= Satellites =
===🌲🛰Sequoia 🛰🌲===
===🌲🛰Sequoia 🛰🌲===
**'''The People To Talk to''' Connor, TaNia
**'''The People To Talk to''' Connor, TaNia
= Biology =
== Biology ==
== Enzymatic DNA Synthesis Methods ==
=== Enzymatic DNA Synthesis Methods ===
'''Lead: Michael Uttmark''' {{slack-user|uttmark}}
'''Lead: Gwyn Uttmark''' {{slack-user|uttmark}}
** Test commercial blocking groups for compatibility with [[Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase]]
** Test commercial blocking groups for compatibility with [[Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase]]
** Chemically synthesize nucleotides with different reversible blocking groups
** Chemically synthesize nucleotides with different reversible blocking groups
** Design and test your own synthesis method!
** Design and test your own synthesis method!
== Sequence Verification ==
=== Sequence Verification ===
** Execute and optimize any one of our existing verification procedures--[[Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis]], [[Pyrosequencing]], or [[Ligation and Sequencing]]
** Execute and optimize any one of our existing verification procedures--[[Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis]], [[Pyrosequencing]], or [[Ligation and Sequencing]]
** Adapt LCMS or MALDI-TOF procedures for detecting single-base addition or determining the sequence of a sample.
** Adapt LCMS or MALDI-TOF procedures for detecting single-base addition or determining the sequence of a sample.
** Come up with new ways to verify single-base addition to a starting strand of DNA
** Come up with new ways to verify single-base addition to a starting strand of DNA
== Microfluidic Device Design ==
=== Microfluidic Device Design ===
** Design and program an [[Electrowetting on Dielectric]] microfluidic PCB
** Design and program an [[Electrowetting on Dielectric]] microfluidic PCB
** Simulate and test how a microfluidic system would work in microgravity
** Simulate and test how a microfluidic system would work in microgravity
** Build testing rigs for DNA synthesis methods that are needed for experiments in lab
** Build testing rigs for DNA synthesis methods that are needed for experiments in lab
= Policy =
== Policy ==
Outer space is cold, dark, and dangerous, yet people keep risking lives and spending billions of dollars to venture into its depths. Space projects have historically been some of the most dangerous and time consuming human endeavors ever attempted. So… why do we do it?
SSI’s Policy Team investigates the politics of space. Whether you are an economist, philosopher, engineer, or anything else, whether you are fascinated by today’s rapidly changing space industry or wish you were around for the first moon landing, Policy Team is the place for you. Join us for our weekly general meetings to discuss the trends and issues of the space industry, or take part in one (or more!) of our subteams below! The future of space is in your hands.
=== UN Proposal & Citizens for Space Exploration ===
Ever dreamed of visiting the United Nations or meeting with senators in Washington DC to discuss hot topics in outer space? SSI’s Policy Team provides incredible opportunities to delve into the intriguing, controversial, and challenging world of space policy.
Each year, Policy Team sends members to the Citizens for Space Exploration Conference in Washington, DC, where you — yes, you! — can speak directly with lawmakers and elected officials, lobbying to promote space exploration and determine the role of government in space.
Last year, eight students from the Policy Team worked with the nonprofit [https://www.forallmoonkind.org/ For All Moonkind] to write a proposal about the preservation of human heritage in space, and the paper is going to be published by the Astrosociology Research Institute. Normally these students would get to travel to Vienna, Austria and present their research to the UN’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space; although we weren’t able to last year due to COVID, we plan on going again this year!
== [[SpaceJams]] ==
=== Podcast ===
Space policy is a large, complex, intergenerational conversation — and we want you to join! Our weekly space news podcast “This Week in Space” (check us out on Spotify or iTunes!) addresses what's currently going on in the space industry through discussions among team members and interviews with distinguished members of the space industry. We currently have listeners in 25 countries and are looking to keep expanding!
== Your Project Here ==
=== Book Club ===
Love space related pop culture? Interested in how science fiction eventually becomes science fact? Eager to meet sci-fi authors? Just looking for a place to vibe with really cool people? Come join our book club! We read sci fi novels and discuss them at our biweekly meetings.
= Operations =
== Operations ==
== Community ==
=== Community ===
* Come up with a theme for Special Dinner and make decorations (like a model Falcon 9!)
* Come up with a theme for Special Dinner and make decorations (like a model Falcon 9!)
* Help {{slack-user|dragland}} run SSI general dinners
* Help {{slack-user|dragland}} run SSI general dinners
* Plan and run general community events like Trivia Night, Pathfinder, and Movie Night
* Plan and run general community events like Trivia Night, Pathfinder, and Movie Night
== Diversity ==
=== Diverssity ===
* Find diverse speakers to bring to campus
* Find diverse speakers to bring to campus
* Organize diversity mixers (including with other engineering groups)
* Organize diversity mixers (including with other engineering groups)
* Help {{slack-user|ruqayyatoorawa}} run workshops
* Help {{slack-user|ruqayyatoorawa}} run workshops
== Events ==
=== Events ===
* Find an interesting company and arrange a tour or talk
* Find an interesting company and arrange a tour or talk
* Help handle logistics of an existing talk, like by meeting an astronaut and walking him to Durand 450
* Help handle logistics of an existing talk, like by meeting an astronaut and walking him to Durand 450
* Give a CEO or Venture Capitalist a tour of ESIII
* Give a CEO or Venture Capitalist a tour of ESIII
== Finance ==
=== Finance ===
* Complete reimbursements
* Complete reimbursements
* Apply for grants & seek out new sponsors
* Apply for grants & seek out new sponsors
== Marketing ==
=== Marketing ===
* Design awesome swag (t-shirts, jackets, posters)
* Design awesome swag (t-shirts, jackets, posters)
* Reach out to reporters
* Reach out to reporters
* Designing flyers for upcoming talks
* Designing flyers for upcoming talks
* Going on launches to take pictures and videos
* Going on launches to take pictures and videos
== Outreach ==
=== Outreach ===
* Start discussions with local highschools and their science clubs
* Start discussions with local highschools and their science clubs
* Organize or join an existing trip to a local school
* Organize or join an existing trip to a local school
== Sponsors ==
=== Sponsors ===
* Pursue a sponsorship (we'll walk you through how!)
* Pursue a sponsorship (we'll walk you through how!)
* Compile a list of bay-area aerospace companies
* Compile a list of bay-area aerospace companies
== Website ==
=== Website ===
* Overhaul the budgeting system
* Overhaul the budgeting system
* Give the sponsors page dynamic content
* Give the sponsors page dynamic content
* Manage this very wiki
* Manage this very wiki
* Manage our public and internal websites
* Manage our public and internal websites
== Workspace ==
=== Workspace ===
* Make space-themed artwork to decorate ESIII
* Make space-themed artwork to decorate ESIII
* Plant more herbs
* Plant more herbs