Tag: space

W6TRW Club Meeting April 8th, 2025

UPDATE: Doug K6JEY is unfortunately feeling ill and  is unable to speak this month. Instead, Mark KD7DTS and Angelina KN6QAT will speak on “Your First SOTA Activation!” Mark KD7DTS is one of the top Summits on the Air (SOTA) activators in SoCal and has a mountain of experience! Angelina KN6QAT recently achieved both her Tech …

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W6TRW Club Meeting November 9, 2021

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 …

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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 …

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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: …

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