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- Pack tools & GSE listed in assembly checklists
- Pre-charge cameras, payload, and ALL altimeter batteries
- Stow in containers that will go to LA
- Pack coolers of food, tents, tables
- Transport only those tools to the hangar
- Assemble Hermes II in the hangar
- forgotten tools require time delays, missing parts require require time delays to be recorded
- Put in "Final Integration" state
- Go to sleep, wake up early the next morning
- Collect everyone at the hangar prior to going to Field A
- If people sleep in, they are "sick" and cannot take on the usual role
- Set up stuff prior to transport (simulate "FAR")
- Transport to Briggs Field A with GSE, including test stand as "launch tower"
- Perform Integration & Prelaunch procedures (except igniter, incl. raising to vertical)
- Verify telemetry in launch ready configuration
- Perform "rocket take down" procedures
- "Launch" with telemetry and video during a ground test
- Recovery team walks 2 miles with ballasted backpacks
- Rest of team does launch site cleanup
- Use recovery procedures to pick up & safe the rocket
- Recovery team walks 2 miles with the rocket and backpacks
- Transport back to lab
- Log all data
- Report estimated total time (with delays)
Goals:
- Test flight team with realistic & adverse launch environment
- Train support people
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