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Highlights of recent developments on the MiniSShot Project
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- Paul Brong Machinery has agreed to cut & custom machine our casting
tubes at a highly discounted cost.
- our phenolic thermal liner tubing has arrived
- plan to do a trial casting of 3 grain segments using the new &
improved casting setup with phenolic casting tubes. Tentative plan to
test fire the grains in a short 3-grain motor. Richard has completed the
motor casing to fit the short stack.
- Our bio page has been updated with graphics. If anyone on the Sugar
Shot or MiniSShot team has not yet submitted their bio, and wish to have
it posted, please send it to Richard or Shawn.
- $100 donation by Shannon Dyer of Australia, Thank you very much!!
- Our "Launch Pad" fund-raising campaign is set to begin in early July.
This campaign will help to bring our seriously depleted funding levels
back up.
- Hans continues to makes good progress on the main computer. The
Net-burner kit has arrived with the 2 5213 modules however one module
arrived damaged and a complaint has been filed. Hans expects to have
first partially assembled board running this week. Work on rest of the
hardware and software continues.
- Ed Mallory reports that he is working to fly the avionics package on a
test flight at NEFAR on July 12
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