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OPAL General Meeting Agenda - January 6, 1999 
Minutes are in italics.   

Announcements   

  • Fill out meeting schedule
  • Opal EM done by Feb 1.  CDR immediately following around the 3rd. Flight done on March 1 to do environmental testing.  Opal complete on April 1 to do final ops testing.
  • Lab cleanup
Subsystem Discussion   
  • General
    • Any word on darpa money?.  Twiggs will send email to find out
    • Inhouse prototyping of boards. Thurs 1pm in 007
  • System Integration 
    • Need several system engineers to work on ops, testing, and integrating Opal
    • Still work to do on OGIWED.  Friday at 11am Ogiwed meeting
    • Harnesses and integration testing.
  • Accelerometers / Magnetometer
    • Update.   Working on board design
  • Communications 
    • Update.  Monday meeting at 5:30 with mentors.  
  • CPU
    • Get Opal up and running
    • Use EEPROMS
    • make watchdog power cycle cpu/tnc
  • Launch Interface 
    • No news.  Jawsat to return mass model by end of January
  • Picosatellite Launcher 
    • Pro E license, Prof Twiggs.  He will check into this
    • Plan of attack.  Testing!  David and Jeff to meet to discuss this
    • Launcher instrumentation.  Box size
    • NEAs and actuators.
    • News from Aerospace?
    • Artemis talking to NEA needs info.  Jeff will work on this, have by Friday.
  • Power 
    • Update. 
    • Any news from Lockheed?
    • Woody Allen working off batteries, getting flight ready
    • Sun simulator
  • Structure 
    • No News Returned end of january
  • Testing  
    • Update. 
    • Identify testing needs
  • JAWSAT
    • Update
  • Ops
    • Update. 
    • Test plans