White Sands Missile Range is once again hosting the SystemsGo Rocket Program again for its season end launches. This year three schools will be traveling to New Mexico to test their rockets at White Sands Missile Range, they include: Alamo Heights HS, Brazoswood HS, and Union Grove HS.
June 14th through June 16th are the dates for this year’s WSMR launch. The SystemsGo team and schools will be traveling to Alamogordo, New Mexico for lodging on June 13th. Early on the 14th, preparations at the site will be made with the goal of launching all three rockets Saturday. The 16th, Sunday, is our contingency day, but the hope is that it will not be needed. Sunday is Father’s Day and WSMR personnel would prefer not to work and we would love to be on the road home.
We continue to launch from range ABC1. This range required the altitude cap for the rockets to be adjusted from the original height cap which was 100,000 feet. The current cap instituted three years ago is 50,000 feet. ABC-1 does not have a large bunker, so only essential launch personnel stay on site, and the SG staff evacuate out five miles for launches. Students and teachers are taken to a secure location known as Tula G, which is further down range where they watch the launches on screen inside a designated facility.
There will be tents on the range, the same as last year. Rockets need to be complete by the end of the day on Friday.
The T-1schedule on Saturday will be very tight. Range time begins at 7:00 am and ends at 4:00 pm. The range is Hot all day for us, which translates to as soon as we can reset and be ready to launch again, WSMR is ready to assist. This should make keeping the schedule and sending all three rockets skyward a viable task for Saturday.
If Mission is Complete on Saturday evening, then evening activities may include some White Sands National Park dune sledding.
SystemsGo team members will be residing at the Quality Inn and Suites in Alamogordo this year.
There are three schools scheduled to launch their rockets. These include:
- Alamo Heights
- Brazoswood
- Union Grove
The current launch schedule is as follows:
- Thursday, June 13th
- Travel Day
- Pressure Checks and FRRs that evening at the hotels.
- Security checks of all Form 5000s
- Friday, June 14th
- Site Set up ABC-1 7:00
- Depart for site from hotel–TBA
- Complete all rockets.
- 3:00 p.m. Leave the site with Alamo Heights and Brazoswood on the rails.
- Saturday, June 15th
- Launch Day (Three Rockets, barring any schedule changes by WSMR.)
- Depart from hotel for arrival on site–TBA
- Projected launch schedule:
- T1 8:00 a.m.
- T2 9:00 a.m.
- T3 11:00 a.m.
- Airspace Ends – 4:00 p.m.
- Pack site
- Evening Activities as time allows.
- Sunday, June 16th
- Travel Day-Contingency Day only if absolutely needed. WSMR does not want to work on Father’s Day.
- Monday, June 17th
- Travel Day-Hopefully we are already home.
The Goddard level rockets, which are the capstones of the SystemsGo program and the culmination of all the skills the students have learned throughout their years in the STEM program. This marks the final senior project for the schools that participate in for the SystemsGo program.
www.systemsgo.org as always is the place for more information on this program. You may also email them at info@systemsgo.org .Take the time to get your school involved, the future of your students will be benefited.
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