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• Log single point failure locations
• Refine packing lists
  • Add missing tools & materials
  • Add missing flight parts
• Log Assembly times
  
  • Overall start/finish
  • By subsystem
  • Final integration
• "Wish List" for additional GSE
• Practice rocket integration in hangar

Test 3: Launch Rehearsal, 4/

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27 and/or 5/4

Scope: 

1. Pack tools & GSE listed in assembly checklists
2. Pre-charge cameras, payload, and ALL altimeter batteries
3. Transport only those tools to the hangar
4. Set up tables & test stand as "launch tower" on Briggs prior to transport (simulate "FAR")
5. Assemble Hermes II in the hangar
   1. Log & acquire any missing tools/GSE
6. Put in "Final Integration" state
7. Transport to Briggs Field A with GSE, including test stand as "launch tower"
8. Perform Integration & Prelaunch procedures (except igniter, incl. raising to vertical)
9. Verify telemetry in launch ready configuration
10. Perform "rocket take down" procedures 
11. "Launch" with telemetry and video during a ground test
12. Use recovery procedures to pick up & safe the rocket
13. Transport back to lab
14. Log all data

Goals:

• Log times for: 
  • All subsystems' assembly
  • Integration & Prelaunch (separately, at each step if possible) 
  • Rocket take down
  • Pick up & safe the rocket
• Assign some of the roles
• Estimate time loss from tools/extra parts left behind
• Loosely simulate launch environment
• Allow extra tools to be obtained easily as long as they are logged 
• Determine Determine additional tools/GSE needed for successful launch/recovery
• Train flight team

Test 4: Launch Simulation, 5/12-13

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Required:

• All results from previous tests
• GSE for packed configuration
• Refined checklists from above tests
• Pre-set, reasonable adverse conditions

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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 packed 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
   1. Depart hangar at 7am
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. Change out a battery in the AV Bay
17. Bring rocket back to launch-ready configuration, verify telemetry
18. Perform "rocket take down" procedures 
19. Perform "Launch" with telemetry and video during a ground test
20. Recommended: Recovery team walks 2 miles with backpacks & water & snacks
21. Rest of team does launch site cleanup
22. Use recovery procedures to pick up & safe the rocket
23. Recommended: Recovery team walks 2 miles with the rocket and backpacks & water & snacks
24. Transport back to lab
25. Log all data
26. Report estimated total time (with delays)

Goals: 

• Test flight team with realistic & adverse launch environment
• Log times for: 
  • All phases
  • On Pad --> changing a battery --> back to the pad
• Train support people
• Get Hype

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