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Drop Tower Test |
base |
Start with the Avionics Stack on the rocket cart and batteries charged.
- Verify that there are no spurious cables attached, and all flight cables are in place except for Battery and Dev Umbilical
- All cables should have Retaining Nuts attached
- Cable lengths should be secured to the Avionics Frame as if for flight
- Attach the Dev Umbilical Cable
- Attach the Flight Battery Cable and related Retaining Nuts
- Verify RNH powers up (green blinking LED)
- Attach Shorepower
- If doing a full droptest proceed to section Droptest, else proceed to section Pretest
- Verify section Common Setup has been followed
- After RNH powers up use fc-test to power on all ports.
- See Rocket Cart Procedures
- After FC boots ssh to the FC as root
- Git pull the FCF repo
- Build the FCF for flight
- Clean the log directory
- Critical section start
- Start the FCF code
- Verify FCF is logging and telemetry is streaming to the telemetry viewer
- Detach shorepower and remove the Dev Umbilical Cable
- Wait for some time
- Gently wiggle the cart as a time marker
- Wait for some time
- Reattach the Dev Umbilical Cable
- ssh into the FC
- Stop the FCF
- Copy log file to laptop, check into Launch-11/droptest, push to github
- Critical section end
- Proceed to section Common Shutdown
- Verify section Common Setup has been followed
- Set up as much drop tower as possible, so we can drop as soon as FC stack is running
- Remove FC from cart and place in drop test enclosure
- Place test rig in drop tower
- Use fc-test to power on all ports
- After FC boots ssh to the FC as root
- git pull the FCF repo
- Build the FCF for flight
- Clean the log directory
- Critical section start
- Start the FCF code
- Verify FCF is logging and telemetry is streaming to the telemetry viewer
- Remove the dev umbilical cable and shorepower
- Follow droptower procedures for countdown, drop, and recovery
- Reattach the dev umbilical cable
- ssh into the FC
- Stop the FCF
- Copy log file to laptop, commit into Launch-11/droptest, push to github
- Critical section end
- Proceed to section Common Shutdown
- Reattach shorepower
- Remove from droptower
- Shutdown the FC
- Power down all ports
- Disconnect the battery