UQ + MIT + UW = mars gravity satellite?

[Denny Trimble]

Anybody from Queensland or MIT involved in this project?
MarsGravity.org

It doesn't have quite the appeal of FSAE, since the budget is $20M and the timeline is several years, but I'm tempted to add "Spacecraft" to my resume, alongside racecars and robots...

[Denny Trimble]

Anybody from Queensland or MIT involved in this project?
MarsGravity.org

It doesn't have quite the appeal of FSAE, since the budget is $20M and the timeline is several years, but I'm tempted to add "Spacecraft" to my resume, alongside racecars and robots...

[RiNaZ]

I was learning spacecraft attitude dynamics last semester and it was like imagining the dynamics of a body in space (literally!) . I joined a satellite program when i was a freshmen and ... most of the stuff i did was on attennas and some radio waves and all ... so that wasnt fun (but at least it was progressing a lot better than the FSAE did )

[AmandaG]

Im from UQ, i tried to get involved, but the guys were really slack, i think the whole "its not happening for a few years", created some slackness.

[Denny Trimble]

Yeah, I got the same feeling from the students here. It's much less organized than our FSAE team, and I'd hate to join it and have to straighten the whole thing out...

Back to R&R

[Patrick W. Crane]

I like Mars as much as the next planet... but... what happens when a wheel falls of your spaceship?!? I'm sticking to earth.

Now a student built airplane competition... at least you could have a parachute.

[EliseS2]

This really reminds me of one long night in the shop when we had a competition to come up with the most dangerous SAE competitions. Some of the better ones were formula solid rocket booster, formula motorcycle, formula helicopter, formula nuclear power plant, and formula space suit.

[J. Schmidt]

After a long Saturday night we have the Formula Paper Airplane competition. The winning plane is still stuck in the air vent.

[drivetrainUW-Platt]

joel,
don't forget FSAE CD! generally someone told us that if you wrapped some tape on the chuck of a dremmel and stick the hole of the cd on there, get it spinning to the 30,000 rpm then lightly tap the cd off the chuck and watch it fly down the hallway at terminal velocity....we did this a few times in the dorm hall, until, we saw a stress crack in the cd, the guy was like, ah, run it anyways, well a few seconds of acceleration on the chuck and the thing exploded, shiney parts all the way down the hall.....we attemped to rerun it in the fsae shop but both of those cds exploded before they left the dremmel as well...good times...do not try this at home thou