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  • Practice integration with flight team
  • Verify electronics can be turned on from outside the rocket, including cameras
  • Verify fully integrated pad life

Status: 

  • Completed Avionics + Recovery Ground Test without cameras
  • Refined packing lists 

Test 2

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: Launch Rehearsal, 4/13 or 4/14

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. Assemble Hermes II in the hangar
    1. Log & acquire any missing tools/GSE
  5. Put in "Final Integration" state
  6. Finish integration in hangar

Goals:

  • Refine packing lists with finished flight hardware
  • Test camera operation while integrated
  • Practice rocket integration in alternate location

Test 3: Launch Rehearsal, 4/20, 4/27 and/or 5/4

Scope: 

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

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  • Loosely simulate launch environment
  • Allow extra tools to be obtained easily as long as they are logged 
  • Determine GSE needed for successful launch/recovery
  • Train flight team

Test 4: Launch Simulation, 5/12-13 (stretch goal)

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