Countdown to FRR

It's down to the wire. Both teams is working strenuously hard to develop or put together their Flight Readiness Review. The electrical team is working on putting their circuit board Layout on Express PCB. The Software team is finalizing or correcting their flowcharts, so they can get ready to write their codes to load programs onto the BalloonSat or you can say the Data Archive subsystem. The Mechanical team is down in the workshop slicing and dicing on foam cutting out the set dimensions required to be able to construct the final payload. So, if your guessing where I should be right now. I should be heading down to the workshop for today's task...Until Next time Adios Amigos...

All work, no food

I wish I could eat, but I can't. I went to 459 and tried to eat some fruit and my stomach started to hurt. This is ridiculous. I still feel under the weather. I might have to finish everything soon. So, I could rest a little bit more. I'm feeling sleepy. I'm happy I made an effort to come today,instead of staying in my bed complaining. I feel I got alot accomplished. Now i'm caught up with my team. So I need to just take it a bit further and try to finish everything tonight. After, I'm done hopefully I could fully recover and eat some real food.Hopefully, we'll get our checks and we could go get groceries for the room and I could get some tylenol for my headache and other medicine. Until Next time....I'll blog a little bit more when I get better.

A New Day

I'm in the lab working on my thermal calculations. The time is 10:40 in the morning. Let's see how long I could last before I get nauseous again. I'm feeling weak.I haven't eaten anything.Everything I eat, I end up throwing it back up again. So Jim told me to stick to liquids for now. I'm not 100% today, but i should be able to do sufficient work to catch up. Right now, I should work on my narative part for the CDR and do my calculations later on tonight. So back to work I go. Hopefully I could stay up to finish my work because the meds in my system is making me sleepy. I'll fight through it and stay up. I should win today because I've been suffering for two days now....and i look like a mess. Even in my condition I still found a way to wake up and made it to my 9:00 meeting on time. Also, i'm in the lab working diligently on an empty stomach.That's what you call Dedication and being a team player. Until next time ....Adios Amigos...

Worst night ever

I couldn't go to sleep. I tossed and turned. I had chest pain, I kept on vomitting.Why? I ate some onions that were unnoticeable. Oh. How I ate onions. Why me? Anyways, I took some medicine and rested the whole day and did a little bit of work. I feel a little better.So back to work I go.I'll like to thank everyone who brought me medicine when i was low on cash. Goodnight Blog world.

The trip to Livingston Parish

What is LIGO Observatory? If your scratching your head right about now wondering what is LIGO. Do not worry we were on the same boat when I first heard about it. LIGO stands for Laser Interferometer Gravtitational-wave Obersvatory. It is one of two gravitational wave observatory in the U.S. The site was very interesting and opened my eyes to a whole new world I am ashamed that I have not really paid any attention to.

I knew about Albert Einstein and his general theory of relativity which led to the assumption of the existence of gravitational waves.Moreover, I didn't know that detecting gravitational waves can help us figure out why the Big Bang and all the corruption in the universe occurred. I learned that noise effects the detection of gravitational waves. So, LIGO is trying to find a way to filter out the noise.On the other hand, the most interesting process I saw at the site was how they detect the waves using infrared laser beams. First, the beams are released out of the main building also known as the control center. There is the main mirror that reflects the beam into two directions leading to two different mirrors in separate buildings. In each building there is a mirror that reflects the beams back to the control center. This process is intriguing and is like no other, it's very unique and brilliant. There are two tunnel-like arms that stretch 4-kilometers out to the other bulidings, which is astoundingly detailed and constructed.The ultrastable laser beams have to travel through these tunnels which consist of vacuum pipes.

If there is any vibration from the earth,like a tree falling or construction near by it will interrupt the data received by the very sensitive beams. Meaning it's very hard to detect the gravitational waves with the noisy encircling environment we live in. That's why these sites are built as far as possible from major cities. I was told the only way Ligo will be sure that the detection is 100 % correct is if their partnering site in Washington, which is thousands of miles away, gets the same exact reading they received. When that happens technology will be change forever and science books will not be able to fit in an average size bookbag anymore. I would recommend everyone to go visit a site like LIGO, because it was an experience I will never forget. I would like to thank Mr.Greg Guzik for arranging the trip.Encore...Encore..I wouldn't mind taking another trip there.

Trip to CAMD

The trip to the CAMD site was okay. I learned more about physics and what is Synchroton X-ray tomography. Synchrotron X-Ray tomography ranks as one of the leading high-resolution 3D imaging methods for materials and science-based experiments. We were taken on a tour around the facility. I never seen so much alumunium foil. I assumed that the alumunium foil was used to secure the heat or water within the vacuum pumps. The site was new to me.Yet i'm happy I left there with enough knowledge to induce me to further explore or at least minor in Physics.

Pre-PDR Review

I have a better understanding of how we should structure our documents. I told my team the night before we should not be nervous about the critiques. The critiques is only going to give us insight to better future work or documents. Although, the feedback was more negative than positive. I and my team is intending to take the advice and use it to our advantage. The main problem with our Pre- PDR was distinguishing the implementation from the objectives. Also, our science and technical requirements were mixed up with our objectives. Now, I know with the new comprehension or knowledge of both objectives and requirements I can correct the problem. It's time for another team meeting....SABRE. Until next time....Adios