Famous author, Homer Hickam who wrote Rocket Boys, talks with Design and Optimization Lead, Garrett Abbott-Frey and Construction Lead, Clark Moser about the rocket “Prodigious”. He signed our Von Karmen nose cone, and complemented us on our rocket’s name selection. You are the man Homer!!
Below is a picture of construction lead, textile engineer Clark Moser, showing Kyrksen L.B. Plano-Faber, age 6 of Rockville Maryland, the characteristics of carbon fiber, and its properties.
Stay tuned for more pictures from this event!!
Team TachoLycos
From Left to Right Top Row: Audrey Timmel, Josef Khalil, Wesley Thill, Dustin D’Andrea, Garrett Abbott-Frey, Cameron Lowe, Charles, Clark Moser.
From Left to Right Bottom Row: Richard Chapmen, Rahul Subramanian, Brendan Carr.
For those of you watching, it might be useful to know that we’re launching off of pad 70.
After setting up on the launch pad earlier today, an unexpected avionics error caused an ejection charge to fire. The team has since retrieved Prodigious from the pad and is working on rectifying the error. There are several redundancies in the system and we predict that we will be able to launch successfully a little later in the day (within the hour). Stay tuned!
We are currently on the launch site. We have established a work area and the rocket is assembled and bout to be taken to the pad. If you haven’t already please go to the below link and log on to watch NCSU TachoLycos launch there full scale Prodigious. If for some reason if our launch is delayed we will post another update.
Today we worked on the final touches of the rocket. We also attended the Banquet where we received a participation award. Below is quick group picture from this evening’s event. Tomorrow we are going to be on the launch site early in the morning so please check back here to get an update to when we will launch. As of now it appears that we will be launching between 8:00am and 11:00 am central time. Again here is the link for the live feed.
Just got word from NASA that we will be launching on Sunday the 22nd. The time is still unknown. The reason for the change is due to bad weather and high winds. The link to the live footage will still be the same.
TachoLycos is currently at the rocket fair. Below is a picture of our Booth. We have had lots of people ask questions and visit our booth. After this fair is over we will be heading over to the Space and Rocketry museum here in Huntsville AL. Below is a quick picture from todays fair. Once the competition is over we will be posting many more pictures. Currently we do not have a exact time for our launch. Please check this website often today and early tomorrow for a update.
This is the link to the live feed.
TachoLycos have just finished their first day at the USLI competition. Below is a picture taken at the Marshal Space Center, Huntsville, Alabama. The team recently went through the NAR hardware inspection test, although we have a few things that need to be changed, we are ready to launch “Prodigious” this Saturday. Today we toured the NASA facilities, we also attended the Safety Briefing seminar. The launch is still projected to go on this Saturday, however the inclement weather might delay the launch to Sunday, 22nd April. Below are some links to the live feed.
This is the link to the live feed.
