General News
- TL-1 static firing #4 scheduled for mid-March 2008. Battleship and flight motors will be tested
- TL-1 sub-scaled tube launcher test #3 scheduled for late March / early April.
- October 20, 2007. Test fired our heavy-wall "battleship" motor for about 20 sec. We will be testing our flight motor later in November.
- On the tube launcher side. We have built a subscale launcher and tests have all been successful. We will be doing few more subscale launcher test before moving to full scale testing.
- Our goals will be 100 km (space) and video downlink.
- Team Project HALO is approaching critical mass again. We have new team members, and we are looking for few more folks who wants to help. We are going to start working on the tube launcher and avionics within the next few months. If you are interested, please let us know.
- In the fall 2006 edition of NSS Ad Astra, an announcement for avionics competition was announced. If you have something we can use, please contact us. HAL5 will also be builting an in-house avionics for TL-1.
Team Project HALO
Motor Team: Every Wednesday, except for holidays and other conflicts, from 7 PM to 9:30 PM at Steve M's garage.
Please contact us for direction.
Tube Launcher Team: Subscale launcher testing phase.
The motor team will be working on the bulk of the launcher, including machining,
assessmbly and testing of the finished unit at Steve's.
Avionics Team: We will be doing the avionics in-house for TL-1. The TL-1 avionics will be an updated of our 10 year old SL-2 avionics, which was never launched, with modern electronics. If you are interested, please email us.
, if you would like to participate.
We lost one of our own on July 26 to the accident at Scaled Composites. Glenn May was a member of HAL5,
was a key player in our HALO program. Though he lived in Memphis back then,
he came to Huntsville frequently to help us work on our rockets.
Glenn worked really hard at all of our test firings and launches too.
Glenn built the first rocket bike. We all cheered as he blasted past us
at our old test site on it... The business is very risky, but also very worthy.
I knew space tourism would take lives, but I had hoped it would not happen this soon.
It is especially very hard when it happens to a friend. Glenn was a pioneer.
Those of us that knew him will miss him dearly. This is very hard for all of us.
I know Glenn would want us to press on. He died doing what he loved the most.
Glenn always wanted to go to space. Now he is up there with our creator.
God bless the families of those brave pioneers we lost yesterday. - Respectfully, Greg Allison
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