Building off of last week’s achievements, the Orbiteers are counting down to launch! With the project goals and limitations defined after our in-person meeting with MRSL, we were able to draft our system architecture including the various inputs and outputs for our different modules and the data schemas. We also developed an initial draft of our Preliminary Design Review (PDR) document based on our previously developed documentation. With instruction from our MRSL team, we also finished defining our virtual environments in our individual AWS EC2 instances and we ran a simple simulation to test out functionality. Our third liaison meeting this Thursday was useful for better defining some of our schemas and has enlightened us in the next steps.

Looking forward, we plan to implement a basic version of our system architecture to “close the loop” and then work on optimizing each module from there. Contact with the MRSL team will be critical in these first few steps since it will help in the confusing initial stages of development. We are excited to begin programming and we cannot wait to see where our travels to!