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[[File: IREC2018pose.jpg|400px|thumb|right|frame|The team posing with the fully integrated rocket before launching it at the competition.]]

[[File: IREC2018pose.jpg|400px|thumb|right|frame|The team posing with the fully integrated rocket before launching it at the competition.]]

IREC 2018 was the second SSI IREC team to participate in the [[Intercollegiate Rocketry Engineering Competition]], placing second in the 30k commercial off-the-shelf motor category. The rocket was named Redshift and featured an avionics bay with a long-distance radio system, a reduced-diameter recovery system, a fiberglass airframe with a carbon fiber fin lay-up, a powered decoupling mechanism, and a software-defined GPS payload.

IREC 2018 was the second SSI IREC team to participate in the [[Intercollegiate Rocketry Engineering Competition]], placing second in the 30k commercial off-the-shelf motor category. The rocket was named Redshift and featured an avionics bay with a long-distance radio system, a reduced-diameter recovery system, a fiberglass airframe with a carbon fiber fin lay-up, a powered decoupling mechanism, and a software-defined GPS payload. The successor to the project was [[Olympus 2019]].

=Overview=

=Overview=

The main boards in the avionics system were:

The main boards in the avionics system were:

* [[Skybass]], an altimeter developed by [[User:Johnldean|John Dean]]

* [[Skybass]], an altimeter developed by [[User:Johnldean|John Dean]]. Testing of Skybass was referred to as SHITL (pronounced "shittle," /ʃɪt(ə)l/)

* Motherboard, which was the main interface between all other boards and contained the power distribution, arming systems, and e-match firing pathways.

* Motherboard, which was the main interface between all other boards and contained the power distribution, arming systems, and e-match firing pathways.

* Daughtership, a board for mounting the StratoLogger and Raven COTS altimeters.

* Daughtership, a board for mounting the StratoLogger and Raven COTS altimeters.