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OPAL General Meeting Agenda - November 18, 1998 
Minutes are in italics. 

Announcements 

  • Mentors meetings are there for our benefit.  Let's use them to talk about software, hardware, and mechanisms.
  • When mentors email, please respond and let them know you received it.
  • Two paper opportunities coming up:
    • AIAA student paper competition, abstract Jan 15
    • ESA Conference, abstract Feb 5 
  • Full Opal CDR early next quarter
  • Richard Anderson right next to Olander for parts.
Subsystem Discussion 
  • General
    • No word yet on Darpa funds.
  • System Integration 
    • Update on OGIWED work.  Do we have the completed OGIWED including summary of updates and changes?
  • Accelerometers / Magnetometer
    • Update.  Schematics?  Layout?
  • Communications 
    • FCC Approval.  Anyone hear from Twiggs on this?
    • Several EE's interested in system.  Jamie will follow-up on this.
  • Launch Interface 
    • Update.  Will it be ready for the shake?
  • Picosatellite Launcher 
    • Update on EM. Return of launcher?  Testing schedule?
    • Need to hold design review at end of quarter...say during finals.
    • Update on instrumentation. 
    • Mass models?
  • Power 
    • Update. 
    • Any news from Lockheed?
  • Structure 
    • Update. 
  • Testing  
    • Update. 
    • Make sure we let our test sites know that we have an opportunity to shake but that we'll need to shake again in the future.
  • JAWSAT
    • Update
  • Ops
    • Update.