1. Launch Readiness Report West Virginia University
Justin Yorick, Ben Province, Marc Gramlich, Alex Bouvey, Ben Kryger
Advisor: Dimitris Vassiliadis
Launch Readiness Report West Virginia University

2. Presentation Overview
The 2012 West Virginia University payload shall be presented here in by providing a description of the mission at the subsystem level, then proceeding to encompass the entire project at a holistic integrated level.

3. Cosmic Ray Experiment (CRE) Overview
The CRE will utilize an array of Geiger tubes to record collisions with high energy particles in the atmosphere.

4. CRE Testing Items
The CRE remains largely unchanged since the FMSTR.

5. CRE Action Items
The only required work for this system is to place the Geiger tubes in the protective housing.

6. Radio Plasma Experiment (RPE) Overview
The RPE will use antennae to measure the electrical density of ambient plasma outside the payload canister

7. RPE Testing Items
The FUR form has been updated and completed as required for use of this subsystem.

8. RPE Action Items
At this stage, the RPE requires successful integration of the patch antenna- special port junction with the control hardware of the subsystem.

9. Capillary Liquid Experiment (CLE) Overview
The CLE will measure the capillary action of several water Glycol solutions under microgravity conditions.

10. CLE Testing Items
The CLE experiment has not been further tested to this point in time.

11. CLE Action Items
The CLE subsystem requires that the camera unit records the motions of the fluid after mission initiation.

12. Flight Dynamics (FD) Overview
The FD subsystem will measure the kinematics of the payload, and will be used to correlate the other experimental values to an altitude profile.

13. FD Testing Items
The components of the FD subsystem were tested in the FMSTR, and haven't been revisited in detail since.

14. FD Action Items
The FD subsystem needs to be tested to ensure it properly controls and activates the other subsystems

15. Greenhouse Gas Experiment (GHGE) Overview
The GHGE will measure the concentration of carbon dioxide and water vapor gases throughout the flight of the rocket.

16. GHGE Images

17. GHGE Testing Items
Pressure Transducer Response

18. GHGE Testing Items (cont.)
Temperature Transducer Response
Exposure to Test Volume

19. GHGE Action Items
Further revisions of the control software will improve system performance.
The GHGE still needs to be shown to operate properly as part of the integrated mission.

20. User Guide Compliance Requirement Payload Requirement Status
Mass Allotment
9071g g
Volume Allotment
Entire Canister
Payload Fits
Payload Center of Gravity
1”x1”x1” envelope of Centroid
N/A
Activation Requirement
1.SYS.1/1.SYS.2
Not Verified
Structure Mounts
Top and Bottom Bulkheads
Requirement Met
Sharing
Sharing of Dynamic Atmospheric Port with
The flow runs in parallel with the other team, requiring no special action on part of the WVU team.

21. Payload Integration Status
The payload still needs to be shown to perform the entirety of the mission as required by the desired concept of operations.

22. Comments and Conclusions About Flight Readiness
At this stage, the team must perform several key test on the payload before it can be verified as flight ready.
These test will verify that the previously tested aspects of each subsystem still performs as desired in the entire mission envelope

23. Comments and Questions