SRP-5: Past Members
Matthew Posey, EE Undergraduate - Project Manager
Responsible for design and layout of the websites for the Student Rocket Project, Alaska Teacer's Resource Manual, and the Alaska Space Grant Program. For each of these sites the primary goal is to promote the projects worked on in each of the programs and to provide basic information and documentation to encourage public inerest. Designed a NiMH fast charge heat, current, and voltage sensitive battery charger to maintain charge ofthe battery pack during flight and preflight exercises. Redesigned IMU to expand dynamic range of gyros and to account for possible open circuit errors. Added error correction for gyro null drift. Created layout and assembly for the umbilical interface. Helping to test the SMU. Currently testing the flight version of the power supply.
2005 - 2007
- SRP
- ATRM
- ASGP
- Battery Charger Design
- Umbilical Interface
Travis Peltier, ME Graduate - Mechanical Lead
Travis is the mechanical team leader, and is currently working on his Master's Degree in mechanical engineering. Travis is responsible for ensuring that all mechanical tasks are assigned and that these tasks are completed in a timely manner with sufficient documentation to allow fabrication of components and provide adequate design defense.
2003-2006
- NPD
- Thermal Charachterizations
David Leetch, EE Undergraduate - Electrical Lead
David is one of the two electrical engineers working on the rocket project. He has designed the flight instruments for the rocket, and is currently working on redesigning the power supply. He is also a candidate to become the new electrical team leader since Gaelen, the current electrical team lead, is moving on to other work.
2003-2006
- Power System
- SMU
- IMU
- Flight Instrument Board
- General Documentation
John Henry, CS Graduate - Chief Programmer
Responsible for developing real time visualizations of data channels as transferred from the TM stack to the ground station. Adapted IDACT and previous visualization software to current mission requirements
2004-Present
- Data Visulaizaion
- IDACT
Roxanne Beem, CS Graduate - Lead Programmer
Roxanne is lead embedded systems firmware programmer. She works closely with the electrical and mechanical engineers on the Solar Measurement Unit (SMU) and the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), with the goal of developing and flight-qualifying a Low-Cost Attitude Determination System (LCARS).
The LCARS is primarily intended as a development step toward a low cost attitude control system, though the ISIS implementation of LCARS will be limited to attitude reporting. The SMU microprocessor processes data gathered from four solar sensors mounted on the skin of the rocket to determine rocket spin rate and relative angle of the sun to the rocket. This data is then transmitted to ground support via the telemetry stack. The IMU microprocessor gathers data from gyroscopes positioned to register rocket orientation information (pitch, yaw, and roll rate), then also transmits the data to ground support via the telemetry stack. She has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of South Florida, and is currently finishing her Master's degree.
2004-2005
Gaelen Hatfield, EE Graduate - Electrical Lead
As electrical team leader Gaelen was responsible for tying all projects together and producing a complete electrical design. He will act as the power system and telemetry manager assuring that adequate power is provided to all systems and that telemetry requirements are met. He will work with NSROC to design a low cost attitude determination system in conjunction with his master’s thesis. He will also work with the plasma team to oversee electrical aspects of the project and delegate the requirements as need.
- Telemetry Stack
- Anti-Aliasing Filters
- Flight Instruments
- Umbilical Interface
- IMU
- SMU
- Power Supply
Adam Saunders, EE/ME Undergraduate - Project Manager
As project manager Adam oversaw all aspects of the project. He worked with both mechanical and electrical design teams to ensure dead lines were met. He delegated tasks to ensure that the design review package finished by the end of the semester. Chaired all club meetings and involved interested individuals based on knowledge and commitment. Acted as science liaison with Tokai and TPU. Worked to smoothly integrate between their experiments and the launch vehicle. Finally, he led design the rocket's battery and power system.
2004-Present
Preston Miller, Mining Engineering Undergraduate - Web Development
Preston was the in-house fabricator for the mechanical components. He designed and built the non-pyro door for the mission. His other duties included maintaining the ASGP website, including the SRP site. Preston also helped coordinate outreach activities for the rocket project and ASGP. He is currently studying mining engineering.
2000-2005
- Non-Pyro Door
Jim Rasmussen, ME Undergraduate - Nose Cone Design
Jim was a member of the mechanical team. Jim designed and built the SRP-5 fiberglass nosecone. Jim studied mechanical engineering.
Venkata (Ravi) Mudunuri, ME Graduate - Mechanical Lead
As former mechancial team leader Ravi was responsible for gathering all mechanical documetnation and insured that mechanical aspects of the projects moved forward in a timely fashion. Additionally as part of work on his master thesis he performed design work on the rocket's nose cone. Ravi performed thermal modeling of the payload.
