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2027 IREC Changes
- #6 shear pins, at least 4 (maybe 6?)
- Do the actual math on drag separation forces and force generated, instead of just using what has worked in the past
- Tighter shear pin holes with thread engagement.
- Intentional thread engagement, not in all tubes
- White shear pins
- Testing at various preload?
- Research vent holes in recovery tubes
- What size, how many, do the math on what effect it has and how much we need it.
- Test Single separation, dual deploy system with tender descenders
- Chute bag VS SRAD Nomex
- Can also run an SRAD chute bag, but we should fly a cots one a couple times first
- Reasoning for chute bag is predictability in maximum outer diameter, your main chute can't get stuck as it is physically constrained. It takes a lot of the guess work out of the fold
- SRAD ballistic drogue
- SRAD nose cone
- Conical VS VK
- Laid up VS filament wound
- Payload in nose cone
- Motor assembled way before we go to IREC, need copies of closures and casing (last years?)
- Test RC2 and RC3+ flight computers with charge authority.
- Maybe, keep in mind we didn't have a single failure due to flight computers this year
- Better setup of recovery wiring
- Avoid pinch points
- Going to need a complete revision for single sep dual deploy, need to figure out where we are going to seperate (nosecone vs airbrake)
- Thread retaining bolts and shear pins into bulkheads
- Make team leads read their portion of the DTEG