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OPAL General Meeting Agenda - November 11, 1998 
Minutes are in italics. 

Announcements 

  • None. 
Subsystem Discussion 
  • General
    • Any word on when Darpa money will arrive? 
    • Need to schedule in slip to our schedule.  

    • Also seeing time difficulties with testing.
    • Twiggs suggested making Woody Allen as close to flight as possible so that we can work on ops after we deliver.  Brian said this is not a problem from an ops point of view with the caveat that Woody Allen be the same as flight OPAL.
  • System Integration 
    • Update on OGIWED work.   Should be ready by the 18th -- work has been split up between Wade, Sean, and Alejandro by tray to finish up
    • Need complete OGIWED by the 18th (pico launcher and accelerometers/magnetometer).
  • Accelerometers / Magnetometer
    • Update.  all schematics complete with 3 kinds of accelerometers with the exception of two issues:  current sensors and 5V solid state switch.  Design for boards should be ready by next week
  • Communications 
    • FCC Approval.  Prof. Twiggs update. 
  • Launch Interface 
    • Update.  Work split up and proceeding -- David to send out revised schedule tomorrow.  The people we can shake with can provide a fixture.
  • Picosatellite Launcher 
    • Update on EM. -- delivery of EM to be on Friday, take it to have Dicronite applied immediately afterward
    • Update on instrumentation. -- 50% soldered up, should be ready before the EM is delivered.  Decided that we don't need a board to collect data when we shake, since all data is collected when we fire actuators after shake test.
    • Update on launch sequence.  .
  • Power 
    • Update.  -- have all side panel masks complete, need to do top and bottom
    • Update from PIWG regarding 30 minute turn-on delay? -- haven't heard back from Orbital yet as to whether beacon will be a problem
    • News on glue, masks? --  we have a quote and are just figuring out how much we need before we order
    • Any news from Lockheed? --  LM starting to move on getting interconnects, but still moving slowly
  • Structure 
    • Update. -- need a couple more mass boxes; finished the adapter between the 2 interface shafts, as well as the launcher EM front stops
    • Shipping box.
  • Testing  
    • Update. -- Deskin fell through -- their facilities won't be refurbished until the first of the year, but they were anxious to help.  WSU willing to help, need to do some paperwork, but should be able to get in at any time.  Aerospace can also help, can shake at any time in LA.  Pretty definite, just need to call them, but wants us to come 1-2 days beforehand to set up
      David to talk to WSU and Aerospace tomorrow.  Also need to check on possibility of delivering mass model to WSU a couple days late.
    • Shake at Deskin. 
  • JAWSAT
    • PIWG/CDR update. 
      • Launch turn on after separation? -- we don't need to be off after separation, just not transmitting.  still waiting to hear back from orbital whether or not our beacon will be fine.
      • Create master list of issues that need to be resolved.
  • Ops
    • Update. --  rough draft of ops guide handed out by Brian.  Brian to have Jamie link it to the OPAL web pages.  Still need to fill in some blanks and need the ops format of the individual experiments.