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| The microcontroller and circuit board during development. |
Whip test. |
More testing. |
A successful deployment. |
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| Here we are making last-minute changes on the way to the launch readiness review. |
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Final preparation on launch day. |
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Tape that shit down. |
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That's Evan holding our package. |
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Launch! |
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Some dog. |
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Cool! An ambigram. |
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Laura drove me around. |
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That's it coming down. |
It was great, it landed in a field right next to the road. |
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| The valve is closed, and yet it's deployed. Strange. |
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The camera was turned off and not taking pictures. |
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Pistons seemed in good shape. |
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| Nothing flying around loose. |
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CSU's rover deployed and was driving around. |
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Then it got hung up on its box. |
UNC's rover almost deployed. |
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| None of the hinges were broken. |
It turns out there was no pressure in the pistons. The air cylinder had been completely drained. |
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Checking on the electronics. |
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| It was running and the light was blinking. |
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No obvious loose connections. |
Memory card still inserted. |
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| No pictures on the camera other than the one we took before the launch. |
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| Everything intact. |
GPS still connected. |
But the batteries were way drained. |
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| We checked for leaks in the cylinder; there were none. |
Data recovery. |
