USLI Final Scores

Posted: 25th May 2011 by Silent Renegade in Documents, Launches, News
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http://blogs.nwic.edu/usli/files/2011/05/NWIC-USLI-Final-Scores.pdf

Yahoo!

Posted: 22nd May 2011 by gbrandt in News
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We just found out that we finished 17 out of the 33 colleges and universities that started this years USLI project. We are pleased with the results, especially since Frankenstein II had issues with the launch pad. The top five finishers are:

1) Utah State University
2) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3) Vanderbilt University
4) North Carolina State University
5) Inver Hills Community College

Congratulations to them and the rest of the teams. We all worked so hard on this project.

Post Launch Assesment Review Posted

Posted: 9th May 2011 by gbrandt in News
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Nearing the end of a long, sometimes arduous journey. The PLAR has been posted. Now we wait and start to think about next year.

Alabama Trip

Posted: 25th April 2011 by Silent Renegade in General, News
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Whew! It’s Almost Done!!

Posted: 22nd April 2011 by gbrandt in General, News
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We returned home after and interesting, exciting, and somewhat frutiful adventure in Huntsville, Alabama at the University Student Launch Intitiave portion of the NASA Student Launch Project. This link will take you to a quick recap.  Much, much more to follow!

Today’s Meeting

Posted: 6th April 2011 by Silent Renegade in News
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Today was the last day for the meetings until the University Student Launch Initiative competition. Though many of us were nervous, not including myself (wink, wink) we did great work and remembered all the parts of our rocket and our presentation. The questions we were asked about our rocket involved, how Frankenstein 1 failed, how many trails and errors we had with the odd design of our rocket, and finally we were told that we recovered well from many things that went wrong with our rocket.

Rainy Day!!!

Posted: 6th April 2011 by Silent Renegade in News
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On the 26th of February, the Rez-Riders went to the Mansfield launch site yet again to test launch the new and improved Frankenstein 2. The drive was boring and uneventful as usual, many of the members slept the entire way including myself (Silent Renegade AKA Kyle). Due to a weather forecast that threw off the entire day, it began to rain canceling the rest of the rocket launches for the day. The rocket team returned to Mister Gary’s pad and enjoyed sweet “victory” pizza for Paul Ballew’s level one certification.

Frankenstein II, the REZurrection

Posted: 21st March 2011 by gbrandt in News
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He lives! He lives! 3/20/11 saw Frankenstein II rise majestically into the sky on a CTI J330 reload. Altitude was 2389 and a heart-thumping recovery as the winds blew him toward the sea ponds and the open water of the Straits of Georgia. Frankenstein II landed on the dike road, the sea pond 20 feet to the left and the Straits of Georgia 30 feet to the right.

Video here

Frankenstein’s Mansfield Adventures

Posted: 7th March 2011 by gbrandt in Launches, News
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Just a brief post that shows some videos of the Death of Frankenstein.  Stay tuned for Frankenstein Part 2, the REZurrection!

The flight

Aft-facing camera 2

Aft-facing camera 3

Critical Design Review Complete

Posted: 24th January 2011 by Silent Renegade in Documents, Uncategorized
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We just added the Critical Design Review (CDR) documents in the documents section. Read and enjoy!