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  • GSE for packed configuration
  • Refined checklists from above tests
  • Pre-set, reasonable adverse conditions that are unknown to the flight team

Scope: 

  1. Pack tools & GSE listed in assembly checklists
  2. Pre-charge cameras, payload, and ALL altimeter batteries
  3. Stow in containers that will go to LA
  4. Pack coolers of food, tents, tables
  5. Transport only those tools to the hangar
  6. Assemble Hermes II in the hangar
    1. forgotten tools, missing parts require time delays to be recorded
  7. Put in "Final Integration" state
  8. Go to sleep, wake up early the next morning
  9. Collect everyone at the hangar prior to going to Field A
    1. If people sleep in, they are "sick" and cannot take on the usual role
  10. Set up tables & test stand as "launch tower" on Briggs prior to transport (simulate "FAR")
  11. Pack a car with rocket & GSE, drive to Kresge oval
  12. Transport to Briggs Field with GSE
  13. Perform Integration & Prelaunch procedures (except igniter, incl. raising to vertical)
  14. Verify telemetry in launch ready configuration
  15. Perform "rocket take down" procedures 
  16. Perform "Launch" with telemetry and video during a ground test
  17. Recommended: Recovery team walks 2 miles with backpacks & water & snacks
  18. Rest of team does launch site cleanup
  19. Use recovery procedures to pick up & safe the rocket
  20. Recommended: Recovery team walks 2 miles with the rocket and backpacks & water & snacks
  21. Transport back to lab
  22. Log all data
  23. Report estimated total time (with delays)

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