Prepare the CDR!
Hold on to your pipe and spectacles because we aren’t going anywhere! We received a payload of feedback for the Critical Design Review (CDR) and the following weeks will be all about perfecting our document. That means, to name a few - creating more elaborate electronic schematics, determining safety plug positioning, adding more design and performance requirements, creating a detailed test plan and counter-measures for the safety risks - a great measure of work shall be done.
Whenever we are exchanging emails and asking the REXUS panel some information, it becomes evident that they are operating in mysterious ways with bleeding edge technology since sometimes we are receiving emails from a calculator. They seem to be onto something.
Naturally as summer is at its peak, the team is scattered around Europe anywhere the wind had blown. For the time being, I’ve wound up in the heart of Riga Latvia for an internship and as we sat down in the evening for some beers and garlic bread snacks, naturally we ended up talking about BESPIN. I could tell that they were very keen on the success of the project since one of my mentors offered to help out with a drop test from a higher altitude since he goes paragliding every now and then. At least it would be higher than any building in Kiruna.
I have taken the liberty of illustrating this idea. If we were to perform a drop test of a helium tank in such manner, this is what it might look like:
Naturally we don't want the impact to be so dramatic (even though it would be quite a spectacular sight). Therefore this is how it should be:
