Hej hej! Hello everyone!
First of all, I am doing this blog in a way which I can express myself with humour: MEMES. So do not take all of it seriously 100%...
It’s been almost a year since this entire plot started… We have been working on it for a lot of time and now it is starting to take the final shape. But not everything is easy, and sometimes, certain departments have troubles in order to progress in their work.
But well, after all we try to help each other, so we know that cooperation between departments is good for IRIS, for the common goal. Also, we receive help and feedback from teachers and ESA associates.
However, at the beginning of all, when IRIS was at its first steps, there were some discrepancies about the devices we should use for the experiment…
See you soon! And remember…. IRIS is love, IRIS is life…
All hail The Chicken.
Finally, we decided to use photodiodes, and now here we are, almost 40 days until the launch of our experiment.
Currently, testing optical components and about to do some cool (never better said) tests in ESRANGE, a rocket range and research centre located in the north of Kiruna.
After those tests we will hopefully have more info about how our experiment responds to low temperatures, because the temperatures at the maximum altitude of the experiment are expected to be around -70. Winter is coming…
Well, actually, they said it would be that cold… We will see this winter how many times the thermometer will drop to -40ºC… Nonetheless, this is not an excuse to work on it. However, one of the biggest problems in the whole project has been, as always in this world, the money.
Even though our Economics department has moved and worked hard, is difficult to find people or companies that give money to us, and from here we thank them all. Also, our components require high precision, so they are quite expensive…
We considered the idea of including some C4 explosives in our experiment, it would be fun, because it is hard to see firework up here, but they are expensive and all our data would be destroyed. But that is not always a big problem, is it?
Summarising, now we are reaching the last weeks of IRIS before the launch (not the project, we have post-project work as well), so we have to sacrifice our free time, not only for university assignments and projects, but also for IRIS.
But all the team hopes (well not everybody) that everything is going to be OK, and it will be a great success. Until then, work is our only way to make it successful.
