Speaker Topic for this Month: “AMSAT GOLF” Chris Wachs, WA2KDL The goal of the GOLF program is to work by steps through a series of increasingly capable spacecraft to learn skills and systems for which we do not yet have any low-risk experience. Among these are active attitude control, deployable/steerable solar panels, radiation tolerance for …
Tag: space
May 28
Repost: One Radio Amateur Aboard Historic SpaceX Launch
05/27/2020 If all goes according to plan, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken, KE5GGX, and Doug Hurley will make US space history today [May 27], as human spaceflight returns to the US for the first time in almost a decade. Behnken and Hurley will be on board a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the “test flight” powered by a Falcon …
Jul 18
Tour USAF Space & Missile Systems Center
Tour of USAF Space & Missile Systems Center (SMC) NOTICE: REGISTRATION FOR THIS TOUR ENDED AS OF 8/31/2018 Date: Friday, Sept. 21st, 2018 Car Pool at Space Park, in front of Building S parking Lot Time: 10:30 am (**NOTE: Time has changed from 9:00 am to 10:30 am**) Limit: 1 guest per Club Member (Total Group: …