Announcements 

• Opal delivery moved up to May 1, 1999.
• New Opal web pages can be found at http://ssdl.stanford.edu/opal/new/ .  Please review and  send comments to Jamie (jwc@stanford.edu).
• Tuesday, the 29th, PDR has been cancelled.  Need to come up with new time.
• Discuss new meeting time for general meeting.
• Lab Cleanup sign up list in 007 on inside of 007 door.

 Woody Allen completion - End of fall quarter, 1998. 
 Flight Opal completion - March 1, 1999 
 Environmental testing completion - April 1, 1999 
 Closed operational testing completion - April 29, 1999 
 Opal delivery to JAWSAT - May 1, 1999 
 Big sigh of relief - May 2, 1999 
 OSP Launch party - September 1, 1999

• See attached below.

• General
• Develop task list
• Work on schedule
• Miscellaneous 
• Canvas on the PCs in the library can edit OGIWED.  Either modify it upstairs or run Canvas remotely from down in 007 (possible?). 
• Accelerometers 
•  Anyone? (terribly urgent) 
• Communications 
•  Anyone? (not pressing yet) 
• Launch Interface 
• Rebuild for Opal shake test. 
• Magnetometer 
• Power system and evaluating at Ames. 
• Picosatellite Launcher 
• EMs 
• Power 
• Solar panels. 
• Structure 
• Shake that thing. 
• Testing  
• Set up shakes for EMs and structure 

Accelerometers 

• Update prototype design and build new prototype. 
• Separate power supplies for magnetometer and accelerometer testbeds.
• Build separate power on switches.
• Simplify circuitry.
• Find ways to mount accelerometers to PCB.
• Verify and characterize operation of the prototype. 
• Build flight accelerometer testbed. 
• Test flight testbed. 
• Integrate into flight bus. 
• Documentation. 
Communications 
• Manufacture antennas and antenna mounts. 
• Obtain FCC approval for frequency allocation. 
• Determine susceptibility of radio EEPROM to radiation.  Will we loose our frequency setting? 
• Determine susceptibility of TNC EEPROM to radiation. 
• Implement ASSET beacon. 
• Modify communication system to handle Artemis' black box. 
• Ensure transmitter is off when being trickle charged. 
• Documentation. 
CPU 
• Rewire or rename wires to accommodate new picosatellite launcher. 
• Rewire or rename wires to accommodate redesigned magnetometer and accelerometer testbeds. 
• Make flight EEPROMS work in Vesta board.  May involve obtaining new radhard EEPROMS from SEI that actually fit our sockets. 
• Debug, debug, and debug. 
• Documentation. 
Launch Interface 
• Actuator redesign 
• Minor modifications to fit OPAL and JAWSAT 
• Shake interface with OPAL vertically to verify higher g loads and vertical orientation 
• Include separation switch, turn-on mechanism if OPAL fails to separate 
• Redesign if necessitated from testing 
• Documentation. 
Magnetometer 
• Build power supply for magnetometer 
• Modify boom to fit into JAWSAT 
• Characterize operation of magnetometer in Helmholz chamber and measure induced magnetic fields from Opal. 
• Take design to be reviewed by PI. 
• Documentation. 
Picosatellite Launcher 
• Design tweaks 
• Instrumentation  
• Drawing update 
• Fabrication quote and production 
• Build testing apparatus 
• Testing schedule and procedures (vibe, micro-g, thermal-vac) 
• Launch sequence software and hardware controls 
• Budget 
• Revise drawings for flight hardware 
• Documentation. 

Power 

• Determine lifetime in off state. 
• Determine requirements for trickle charge during launch. 
• Build solar panels. 
• Documentation. 
• Battery trickle charger through ASU 

Structure 

• Verify OPAL structure.
• Assemble old shake structure 
• Assemble OPAL flight structure 
• Build 10g dummy masses
 
• Build OPAL flight structure: 
• Gather, build, and/or order fasteners, inserts, L-brackets 
• Build antenna mounts 
• Modify magnetometer boom 
• Build plexiglass solar panel covers 
• Build transport box 

Testing  

• Launcher EM testing 
• Interface verification testing  
• OPAL structure verification testing 
• OPAL flight satellite shake 
• Thermal vac testing 

JAWSAT and Orbital Sciences Corp.  

• Interface Control Document 
• Computational mass model 
• Physical mass model 
• Finite element model 
• Weekly telecon 
• Integration meetings at OSC in Chandler, AZ 
• Battery trickle charger through ASU