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NASA Project Update

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(Imported from old site; original post: Wednesday, December 26, 2012)

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Because of finals week and finals week preparation, I haven’t had a chance to give any updates, but there is good news on the NASA front: funding has been approved as of December fourth. That means that I will be working on a CubeSat next semester! I actually already anticipated receiving funding as well as UK approval, so I’ve already started building my team. I feel good about my team, and when everything gets in full swing, I’ll give them a proper introduction.

Also, I had a telephone meeting this past Thursday with Dr. Martin from UK, Dr. Ioana Cozmuta from NASA Ames, and Dr. William Ailor from Aerospace Corporation. We discussed the possibility of working on a few different improvements of REBR rather than the CubeSat. I have yet to discuss it with all of my team members, but so far with those I’ve talked to, it seems pretty split on which we should work. Many more questions to be asked, but that’s okay–they’ll be answered in time.

More updates to follow.

NASA Proposal

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(Imported from old site; original post: Saturday, October 20, 2012)

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As discussed in the NASA Project entry, I have been attempting to make my senior design project at UK awesome. And awesome things require awesome amounts of money. So, you have to start early.

Recently, Dr. Alexandre Martin (my old, but young, fluids professor, that I mentioned in the NASA Project entry) and I wrote a proposal to NASA asking for money. I was surprised to receive a letter of support prior to the submission of the proposal from none other than Ioana Cozmuta herself (also discussed in the NASA Project post). To quickly sum up, she was essentially the inspiration for this project. The proposal was just submitted today (with her letter included, of course), and I guess we’ll back some time between a year and six months from now. Yes, in that order.

So I may be exaggerating a bit on the time, but it should be before January of next year (2013). Other proposals will need to be written, of course, to other companies. I certainly do NOT volunteer my company to give massive amounts of money to this effort. Why should I when there are aerospace companies with a much larger budget than mine! That’s a joke. Laugh. A true joke, but a joke, nonetheless. Laugh anyway.

Here’s the proposal if you’d like to look through it. The letter is attached as the last page of the PDF: MARTIN_TP_Project_2012