Welcome to the CU Spaceflight Wiki
This wiki is intended as a place to document work in progress projects as well as to collate useful information and documents.
We also have an SVN Server where you should put source code and files, to get up and running with SVN, have a look at Using SVN.
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Flights
| Name | Date | KML | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nova 1 | 09/09/06 | KML | First CU Spaceflight launch |
| Nova 2 | 19/11/06 | Flight to test new hardware, unfortunately lost at sea. | |
| Nova 3 | 07/01/07 | Flight to test new cutdown design, found in Germany! | |
| Nova 4 | 07/03/07 | Test-bed gondala for an early Martlet design, now lost in the mists of time. | |
| Nova 5 | 24/03/07 | Launched at the National Science Week event at the Cavendish laboratory. | |
| Nova 6 | 23/07/08 | KML | First flight of Badger1. |
| Nova 7 | 25/07/08 | Second flight of Badger1, launched at dawn to catch sunrise. | |
| Nova 8 / HAPS-D | 29/08/08 | Flight in collaberation with Doug Ellison again to catch sunrise. | |
| Nova 9 | 01/12/08 | Teddies launch with Parkside and Colleridge schools. | |
| Nova 10 | 22/03/09 | KML | Star-tracker test flight with two balloons. |
| Nova 11 | Re-flight of the star-tracker experiment | ||
| Nova 12 | A flight to take some images for a marketing firm. | ||
| Nova 13 | UK Space Challenge launch carrying 3 payloads built by secondary school teams. | ||
| Nova 14 | 21/08/09 | KML | BadgerCub first flight and first uplink to payload. |
| Nova 15 | |||
| Nova 16 | 03/12/09 | KML | Badger2 first flight and uplink tests |
| Nova 17 | 24/02/10 | KML | Badger2 and BadgerCub integrated uplink and downlink test |
Flight page template you can use to add details of a flight.
Notes on Filling out a launch card.
Electronics and Software
Electronics and Software Team page for ideas and coordinating things we need to do.
Landing Prediction
Landing predictions can be made online, Online Landing Prediction
Source code is available, for more details and documentation see Landing Prediction
Also see our Ballooning Calculator. Available online here: http://www.cuspaceflight.co.uk/calc
Avionics
Beginner's guide to Tracking CU Spaceflight Payloads
Badger1, Badger2, BadgerCub High-altitude balloon flight computers.
RocketBoard1 Experimental rocket flight computer for testing the software GPS.
Documents
UK Space Challenge Rules, UK Space Challenge Details
Getting Started
To get started creating and editing pages, please read the Wiki Syntax
To get started with the SVN server, see Using SVN
You can also browse the SVN server online, WebSVN
You can play in the Sandbox
CU Spaceflight Internal
Only accessible to CU Spaceflight members, if you think you should have access then please make sure you have signed up for a wiki account and then email the team mailing list with your username and we will add you.
Recent SVN Commits
The last 5 SVN commits were:
- Added a little more error checking and removed dependency on ... by ag611 (2010/03/15 22:31)
- New JavaScript-based burst calculator by ag611 (2010/03/15 22:07)
- Ferret tracker arduino code by icw26 (2010/03/05 10:23)
- added payload to trackatron interface by eam52 (2010/02/24 13:30)
- dxfs for the waterjetting of the test rig. backing plate ... by icw26 (2010/02/14 16:24)
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