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Hey guys. The last time I uploaded a few photos of my co-op with NASA a lot of you said to upload some more pics sometime. Well, here's a few shots from my camera phone I think you guys will find interesting!
This is my desk. It's very cluttered :T Oh, and that's another Penn Stater in the background! Sadly, after 2 years as a co-op and 5 years as a full-timer, he's moved on to bigger and better things. Well, actually smaller... UAVs to be exact.
This is one of the receiver racks I was working with. I was testing a receiver that fell 80km at several hundreds (thousands?) of miles per hours :E It worked like a champ!
Okay, this next pic is just terrible. However, you can gather one neat thing from it. That big green thing running parallel with the blue railing? That's a lathe. THE WHOLE THING. And those round thingies on the racks below it? Those are the chucks! As a little trivia fact, Wallops Flight Facility has the largest machine shop on the east coast!
Okay, now here's the cool one. This is HyBolt (skinny thing behind the railing). She's about to be shook with 30,000lbs. of force provided by our friend "That huge 95,000W class A amplifier", which happens to be liquid cooled with ionized water. Say it with me now, "Ohhhhh, awwwweee..."
HyBolt has an interesting shape. You can't see it in either photo, but instead of the usual cone shaped nose cone, it's more like a wedge shape. This is because HyBolt is going to test the aerodynamics and stresses, forces, and temperatures of supersonic speed that will occur with scram jets! That and a few other tricks I'm told. Here she is being strapped down to the table. Takes about 30 minutes to and hour to do since theres a few hundred screws and there's a torque pattern to follow. i.e. go around torquing everything to X amount of lbs, then go around again torquing it to Y amount of lbs, then one more time to Z amount of lbs.
This is my desk. It's very cluttered :T Oh, and that's another Penn Stater in the background! Sadly, after 2 years as a co-op and 5 years as a full-timer, he's moved on to bigger and better things. Well, actually smaller... UAVs to be exact.
This is one of the receiver racks I was working with. I was testing a receiver that fell 80km at several hundreds (thousands?) of miles per hours :E It worked like a champ!
Okay, this next pic is just terrible. However, you can gather one neat thing from it. That big green thing running parallel with the blue railing? That's a lathe. THE WHOLE THING. And those round thingies on the racks below it? Those are the chucks! As a little trivia fact, Wallops Flight Facility has the largest machine shop on the east coast!
Okay, now here's the cool one. This is HyBolt (skinny thing behind the railing). She's about to be shook with 30,000lbs. of force provided by our friend "That huge 95,000W class A amplifier", which happens to be liquid cooled with ionized water. Say it with me now, "Ohhhhh, awwwweee..."
HyBolt has an interesting shape. You can't see it in either photo, but instead of the usual cone shaped nose cone, it's more like a wedge shape. This is because HyBolt is going to test the aerodynamics and stresses, forces, and temperatures of supersonic speed that will occur with scram jets! That and a few other tricks I'm told. Here she is being strapped down to the table. Takes about 30 minutes to and hour to do since theres a few hundred screws and there's a torque pattern to follow. i.e. go around torquing everything to X amount of lbs, then go around again torquing it to Y amount of lbs, then one more time to Z amount of lbs.
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