Core Committee Changeover: Tasks/Responsibilities/Issues

To launch, we need a to be a legal entity. This might require formation of a voluntary association or similar (I think someone in the ESA legal team contacted marketing about this). --Steve

We've had some interest from a UK space company about a collaboration, this needs followed up. --Steve/Lavina/Tom

It has been decided that SEDSAT-II will need a more high profile payload. A number of individuals located in the UK have approached the team about including a plasma analysis instrument as the satellite payload. This needs to be followed up on, and a new payload team needs to be recruited. --Tom
- Some background: I think the Marketing team spoke to various people within ESA about what we were planning, the feedback was that we needed something more interesting.--Steve

We haven't done much in terms of getting sponsorship/funding. This is sometimes holding teams back as they don't have a small amount of money to buy key parts which they require in order to progress.--Steve

There's a guy who was involved with the project early on, who is developing plasma thrusters. We talk about getting some flight-ready thrusters from him every now and then, but we've not made any concrete progress on this (is it a go or no go for plasma thrusters?) --Steve

There was some discussion about an updates blog. It would include weekly team updates (like sedsatii-team-updates), but it would also include e-mails from the SVN server whenever anyone does a checkin, and if possible, also updates when things on protoforge or on the wiki change. This would give a live, running-commentary of what is going on with the project, to whoever is interested (team members, sponsors, etc...). We didn't get round to implementing this, although I think we all thought it would be a good idea at the time. --Steve

SEDSAT-2 Core Committee Tasks