Joseph Shepard Engineering Blog
Portable EME Communications System
Earth-Moon-Earth Communication is a method of radio communication that uses the Ultra HighFrequency (UHF) band to bounce signals off the Moon and back down to Earth, allowing signaltransmission around the world. It was first discovered by U.S. Navy radar technicians. EME isfavored over other weak signal radio methods due to its reliability and longer reach.…
L1 Rocketry Cert.
I have been recently working on finishing my high power rocket for my L1 certification flight. It is based off of a loc precision kit and uses a single deployment recovery system. It is intended to be flown on an H impulse motor. The plan is for it to fly on the 18th. With a…
Active Drag System
As amember of the WVU Experimental rocketry club, I am currently working on designing a Graphical user interface to display real time flight data via a 900Mhz xbee system and a raspberry pi. The system will intercept data that is being transmitted to the serial terminal and then a java code will decipher this data…
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