Minutes of SSP TM meeting on 20 November 1998

Place:  ECE 202		Meeting began at 15:10
Present: E. Fasse, U. Fink, K. C. Hsieh, C. Lewicki, L. Schooley, H. Tharp, and 
W. Wing
Absent:  J. D. Carothers, W. Chen, and K. Thome

This meeting did not follow the proposed agenda.  Instead, a good exchange of 
ideas and information took place, prior to some of the proposed agenda items.

1. Schooley: The International Foundation for Telemetering (IFT) is interested 
in SSP, but requires submission of student papers. IFT info on student papers 
was handed out and a CD of examples given to Lewicki. Monetary prizes for the 
best student papers are established and funds for student travel to the meetings 
are available.

2. Wing:  Only 4 students showed up for the tour of the instrument Shop - 2 from 
STI and 2 from SCI.  
Fink:  The students working on Stellar Photometry are about ready to submit 
drawings for the proto-type.
Wing:  It is now time to contact the volunteer machinist, Clint.

3. Wing:  The STI team will make an effort to recruit new members.
Hsieh:  There are other teams that need recruiting also.  A general drive will 
take place in January.

4. Hsieh:  Please make use of the mock-up of UASat for your team.

5. Fink and Fasse exchanged ideas on pointing accuracy and the need for star 
tracker.  Fink will provide Fasse the list of candidate stars for photometry 
experiment.  Fink also told the satellite-tracking capability of the 60" 
telescope on Mt. Lemmon that might be useful for UASat.  Wing brought up the 
value to GNC of having a laser beacon shining up from the ground station, and he 
said STI (now LCS) would endeavor to produce one.

6. The past minutes were approved.

7. Lewicki reported on the present status of UASat design and handed out 
blockdiagrams from each of the teams.  These sub-system blocks are ready to be 
put together to form the entire UASat system.  The teams are also working on 
operational time-line.  The estimation of the duration of each operation will 
follow.  Fink and Wing expressed concern over the lack of a geometrically 
accurate diagram of the optics.  Lewicki will convey the concern to SCI.

Up-coming publicity for SSP will include a photo of the mock-up by the Arizona 
Daily Star and the display of the SSP poster in the Science & Engineering 
Library.

Concerning the lack of response to the AO for the Project Manager, Lewicki will 
check if the AO has been sent to the Business College.  Hsieh will contact 
Goodman on this matter.


8. Hsieh gave a short report on the status of the proposals.  The reinforced 
proposal to NASA will have to wait, since the lightning section will not be done 
a month from now, according to Dan O'Sullivan.  A copy of the NSF proposal was 
handed out to each TM.

The meeting was adjured at 16:55.

Addendum:  Lewicki forgot to inform the TMs that this semester's "Semester 
Review" will be positioned to a "Semester Update" January.  It will be a general 
assembly of all teams and open to new students.