Dear readers,
Welcome to the November edition of our monthly newsletter! In this edition, the reader will learn about the upcoming events for the month of November, as well as updates from each project team: Space City UAV, Hobby Rocketry, Space City Rocketry, and Amateur Radio Club. I suggest you keep your eyes peeled for a quick announcement from the Hobby Rocketry leads.
— Josephine Argüello, AIAA Historian | SCR Project Manager
Upcoming November Events
AIAA 3rd General Meeting — The officers are proud to announce that we will be having a guest speaker from LZ Technology. This meeting will also have information regarding the upcoming outreach and social events to look forward to for this month. All of the project leads will give updates of their progress thus far.
Thursday, November 3rd | Time: 7 - 9 pm | Engineering Building (L2D2) and Zoom
Study Nights — Join the officer team for a night of studying with your fellow AIAA peers. We know how much of a toll midterms can have on students, so we thought it would be fun to host study nights with like-minded individuals, such as yourself.
Tuesday, November 8th and November 22nd | Time: 6 - 9 pm | UH M. D. Anderson Library
Project Team Updates
SPACE CITY UAV
UAV meetings take place every Monday at 7 pm in the brick Architecture building, 3rd floor, room 357.
November Timeline
- Space City UAV Preliminary Design Review - Date pending
“The Space City UAV team is just about to submit our proposal/entry to the AIAA Design, Build, Fly competition by October 31st. We are beginning our design phase after this and [start] preparing for the Preliminary Design Review (PDR).”
— Andre Jimerson, Chief Engineer
SPACE CITY ROCKETRY
The SCR Bi-weekly meetings take place every other Tuesday from 7-8 pm in L2D2 and through zoom. Their next meeting will take place Tuesday, November 1st.
Sub-team lab times can be found under the Lab Times sheet here.
November Timeline
- Delta PDR - Friday, November 18th
- Purchase Materials - Wednesday, November 30th
“The ESRA officers have officially selected the Space City Rocketry team to be number 122. Out of 175 submitted applications, our team was 1 out of 158 teams that have been selected to compete in the 2023 Spaceport America Cup. We are excited to be working alongside ESRA for the next 8 months. We are one step closer in our road to Spaceport.”
— Ravi Desai, Chief Engineer
UH AMATEUR RADIO CLUB
UH Amateur Radio Club meetings take place weekly every Sunday starting at 5 pm through zoom. The zoom link gets posted in their discord channel.
Upcoming Events
- Antenna Building Class - This event will be hosted by the board of directors, Raj Gohil and Samantha Tovias-Leija. This event will be open to all HAM & AIAA members. Date pending
- Visit the USS Lexington - Date pending
- NASA Tour - Date pending
— Kurt Rowland (KI5MUT)
Quick Announcements
Recap of Events
AIAA 3rd General Meeting
Let’s give a round of applause to our guest speaker, Katie from Cimarron, for an amazing presentation.
Katie informed the audience about the process and experience of professionals in defense and space manufacturing.
AIAA members also learned about the variety of opportunities Cimarron has to offer.
Space City Rocketry Preliminary Design Review (PDR)
The Space City Rocketry team hosted their yearly PDR in order to receive feedback from their peers, professors, and alumni in regards to their mission of having their commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) rocket, Shasta VI, reach an apogee of 30,000 feet.
In this picture you will see the Payload sub-team leads, Isabel Ngiraidong and Kevin Tran.
Brandon Broadway informing the audience on the plans Structures has for this academic year.
The Propulsion leads, Scott Viola and Parsa Tari, give a brief overview of the motor being used in Shasta VI.
The audience had a lot of great questions and valuable feedback. We even had teams from different states attend the Space City Rocketry Preliminary Design Review!
The Space City Rocketry team received a donation from a special alumni following the success of this event. Thank you for showing up! The Space City Rocketry team is grateful for all of the constructive feedback.
Boeing Info Session
The AIAA President, Hailey Stafford, reached out to a couple of the AIAA-UH alumni who are now working at Boeing.
This exclusive AIAA event gave members the opportunity to meet with alumni who now work in the aerospace industry.
The speakers for the Boeing Info Session even sat down and helped us fix our resumes.
Thank you for attending! We hope you continue to support our efforts in showcasing the Space City UAV team.