UASEDS

General Meeting 2.2.2012

UASEDS General Meeting 2.2.2012

Random Space News
Legonaut
-Two Canadian students built a weather balloon with cameras.
-Introduced a LEGO man into the equation
-Cost them about $400

Stratolaunch
-Has a contract with Scaled Compositesin Mojave
-Now a 747 in front of the Scaled hanger

Russia indefinitely suspend Soyuz launches
-Problems with the reentry capsule
-Astronauts on the space station are stuck there for 6 months

Club Events
February 4th
-Pima Air and Space/Titan Missile Museum
-Leaving at 10am from the Loading dock outside LPL
-$10 for dues paying members
-if you want to be a member talk to Ellen

Sabino Canyon Star Party
-astronomy club’s monthly star party
-Saturday feb 4th
-Meet outside Steward Observatory
-5:30-900

Nanosatellite Meeting
-Next meeting will be Wednesday February 8th at 4PM in Steward Observatory N305
-Will be assigning roles and setting up project team leads

E-Week
-Feb 18th?
-Run be ESC
-Competition between numerous engineering clubs around campus
-Events like building a Rube Goldberg machine, engineering trivia and an engineering pageant

Spring Break Trip
-March 10th (37 days from now)
-Day one, drive to San Francisco
-Day two, hang out in San Fran
-Day three, Visit NASA Ames, Google, and drive to Mojave California, and stop in California City
-Day four, Visit NASA Dryden, XCOR Aerospace, Scaled Composites/ The Spaceship Company
-Drive to LA
-Day five, JPL, Griffith Observatory
-Day six, Drive from LA to Tucson
-$40 for dues paying members, all expenses included except food, if you can drive the cost is waved.
-Let us know if you’re interested by next week.

Tucson Gem and Mineral Show
-Major event will be from January 9th-12th
-250 Gem and Mineral dealers
-One of the largest such shows in the world
-Numerous activities through SESS

General Meeting 1.26.2012

SEDS General Meeting 1.26.2012

Moon Base!
-Newt Gingrich, republican primary candidate, promises to establish a moon base by his second term.
-13,000 people will become the 51st state in the United States
-Promised to set aside 10% of NASA’s budget to attain this goal.
- Watched some footage of Candidate Gingrich’s Speech.
- Newt Gingrich’s Moonbase Speech

8th anniversary of Mars Rovers
-Opportunity rover landed on Mars on January 24th 2004
-Originally designed to last 90 days
-Has traveled 21 miles
-Discovered liquid water

Solar Storm
-Aurora activity lower than usual.

Blue Marble Photo
-Climate satellite took this gorgeous image of the earth, centered on North America
- “Blue Marble” Earth Photo

Phobos-Grunt
-Russia will Officially hold the US accountable for the loss of the probe
-Will ask NASA for assistance in diagnosing the problem if it is confirmed that the US government is responsible

Engineering Club Fair
-Tomorrow, Friday January 27, 2012
-10-2 in the AME courtyard

Pima Air and Space Museum
-Saturday February 4th
-Meet at the loading dock at 10am
-Drive to PA&SM
-Eat lunch
-Drive to Titan Missile Museum
-$10 for dues paying members
-See Ellen Thomas if you’d like to be a dues paying member!

Arizona High-Powered Rocketry (Arizona Rocket Gathering: ARG)
-February 25-26th
-Possibility of a trip up if people are interested
-Could have a camping trip as well
-Build our own rockets beforehand and launch them at the event

Spring Break Trip Updates
-$40-60 for dues paying members

General Meeting 1.19.2012

SEDS General Meeting 1.19.2012

Space Happenings
Stratolaunch
- Paul Allen and Burt Rutan formed a new company called Stratolaunch
- Air launch to space
- Partnered with Space X
SpaceX Flight delayed
- reandevous with ISS delayed
- New date unknown
Phobos Grunt
- Crashed back to earth this recent Sunday
- Russian officials blamed the misson failure on the US
- Russia is 0/17 for successful mars missions
Upcoming Events
SEDS Picnic
-Saturday, January 21st 2012
-12PM
- HImmel Park
Telescope Repair
-Sunday January 22nd
-12Pm
-SEDS office
-Come fix the telescope and learn how to use it!
Pima Titan Trip
-Sometime around Saturday February 4th
-More details forthcoming
Science Downtown
-Sometime around February 18th
-More details as the date approaches
-Movies running continuously, space and science info available.
Kitt Peak
-April 7th
- Could be day or nighttime visit
-Details forthcoming
LBT
-Sometime in late April
Spring Break Trip
-Severl different itineraries
-Depart Saturday March 10th
-Return Thursday march 15th
-Cost will be 40-60 dollars, closer to 40
-Need Drivers!

Conferences
NASA Academy
-Be paid to be an intern at a NASA Center around the country
-Focus on Robotics, Aeronautics, Planetary Sciences or Propulsion
Application Deadline is now February 6th

Space Access Society
-Grace Inn in Phoenix, AZ
-Begins Thursday April 12th ends Saturday April 14th
-$40 Student Rate

Yuri’s Night
- April 14th
- Pima Air and Space Museum
- UASEDS is on the planning committee
- We’d love volunteers for various tasks

Arizona Space Grant Symposium
-Saturday April 21st
-Spacegrant interns from around their state will present their research
-Located locally, here in Tucson

Newspace 2012
-July
-Nasa AMES research center near San Francisco
-Reduced SEDS registration down to $50 from $99
-If you volunteer you get in for free and meet conference attendees in a more professional setting.
- If you can get there you can volunteer, all expenses paid
-Application for volunteering will go out on the list serv tonight

Engineering Club Fair
-Friday January 27th
-Set up around 10AM
-Tear down ends at 2PM
-AME courtyard

ALTERNATE MEETING TIMES
Monday 2PM
Monday 3PM
Wednesday 4PM
Thursday 2PM
Thursday 3PM
Doodle Poll will be sent out on the List Serv

Dues
If you haven’t paid dues for Spring 2012 you can pay them to Ellen at any time
$10 per semester!
What a value!

SEDS General Meeting 12/01/11 – Last Meeting of the Semester

Phobos Grunt

-       Now completely dead

-       Will crash back to earth Mid-January

-       Russia’s Record Is now 0/19 in Mars Missions

-       Bill Nye’s Planetary foundation experiment was on board

Mars Science Lab

-       Launched November 26^th

-       Planned to land on August 5^th

-       Plutonium Electric source will last 14 years

-       Explore geologic origins and potential for life on Mars.

-       Launch video, go!

SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2

-       Scheduled to launch around Jan 7^th

-       Will eventually dock with the ISS

-       Will become the first commercial spacecraft to dock with the ISS

US AirForce X-37B Mission Extension

-       Designed for 270 Day Missions

-       Has been in space since March 5^th 271 Days ago

-       Classified

Winter Break

-       Activities in Tucson?

-       Activities in Phoenix or Elsewhere with ASUSEDS? 8-9 interested

Next Semester

-       Local trips

• Kitt Peak, Large Binocular Telescope, MMT, Pima Air and Space Museum, Kartchner Caverns, Titan Misslie Museum, and other Places.

-       Spring Break Trip

• California? Texas? North Korea? The Moon? Suggestions welcome@

-       Outreach Events – Yuri’s Night April 10^th

Capture the Flag

-       Meet Outside Old Main

-       6PM Wednesday December 7^th

-       Day before dead day

General Meeting 11.17.2011

Phobos-Grunt

- Roscosmos is still unable to communicate with the satellite

- Will crash back to earth in the next two months

- has a heat shield that will survive the fall to the surface

Chinese Shenzou Spacecraft

- performed its docking maneuver

- Returned to earth

Soyuz TMA-22 Launch

- launched in a blizzard

- taking expedition 30 to the ISS

- Two Russians and one American

- -5 C and 6 inches of snow

Youtube Space Lab Contest

- Come up with a science experiment for space

- make a video and submitted

- If selected will be streamed from the ISS

- Only people ages 14-18 can enter

National Space Research Conference

- Raffling off a flight on the XCOR Lynx

- a $95,000 dollar value

- February 27^th-29^th 2012 in San Fran

- You can fly yourself, and an experiment or just a larger experiment

Capture the Flag

- Come play capture the flag on campus

- With Astronomy Club.

- December 7^th – the day before dead day!

ASCEND! Project’s Presentation

ISS Ultra Sensitive 4K Camera Flyover Timelapse

- Its super cool and everyone should see it

General Meeting 11.10.2011

SEDS General Meeting 11.10.11

Phobos-Grunt

-launched from khazikstan on Tuesday

-stuck in a parking orbit

-have two weeks to recover the probe before the batteries fail

-needed help from amateur astronomers to find it

Asteroid 2005 Yu55

-passed within the orbit of the moon on Tuesday

-discovered by Robert McMIllan of Stward Observatory

-has no chance of hitting earth within next 100 years

Petitions to the White House about ETs are Funny

-Thanks for your petition, but you’re being silly, knock it off.

Kitt Peak National Observatory

-What are you all interested in seeing?

-Joel – “we can go at night for observing, or during the day to see the facilities. Two Trips are possible.

-Debate between December 2nd and Spring

Logo Contest

-Design a logo!

-If you win you get a free shirt with the logo on it

-Due by November 17th

Astronomy Club Frisbee

-Playing ultimate Frisbee on the mall tomorrow, Friday, November 11th.

-4pm

-Meet By Kuiper Planetary Sciences

-They’ve wanted to do some “physical activity” for a while

Project Updates!

-Thanks Nathan, Sean, Brittany and Danny

-Nanosatellite, Rockoon, ASCEND! And μG

General Body Meeting 11.3.2011

General Meeting 10.20.2011

Camping:

-Actually Happening!

-Peppersauce

-Bring $5 for dues paying members

-SEDS will provide hot dogs, hamburgers, firewood

-If you can drive a carload of people its free!

-Bring clothes you don’t want to wear again

Biosphere 2: Science Saturday

-Outreach events

-UASEDS can do any science event for science purposes

-”Special” tour of Biosphere 2 included

-More info forthcoming

Mike Drake: 1946-2011

-Head and Director of LPL

-Principal investigator of the Osiris Rex mission

-Memorial on November 4th @ 2pm, register by today

Soyuz Launch from French Guinea

-First launch outside of Kazakhstan

-Launching two Galileo satellites

-European version of USA’s GPS satellites.

ASTER Satellite

-Japanese National satellite

-Released a 3D topographic map of the entire world

-The most detailed yet released

GRAIL Mission

-pair of satellites on their way to the moon

-will map the gravity and therefore the density of the moon

-NASA is having a competition to rename the satellites

-Please enter!

Spaceport America

-Dedicated yesterday

-Still about 3 years from commercial flights

ROSAT

-German X-Ray observatory satellite

-Crashing back down to earth this coming week

New Exo-Planet Discovered

-Very early in the planetary formation process

-Only about 50,000 to 100,000 years old

-Youngest ever discovered

-Discovered by the University of Hawaii

UASEDS General Meeting 10.6.2011

UASEDS General Meeting 10.6.2011

 Jamba Juice Fundraiser

• Tomorrow, October 7^th, from 12-3PM
• Let the cashier know you’re from SEDS
• Need people to recruit passersby

Camping and Caving

• Peppersauce Caves
• Either October 14-15^th or October 21st-22^nd
• Camp friday night, and caving saturday morning
• Game night will occur on whichever night camping does not happen

What to bring camping

• clothes and shoes you’d rather not wear again
• Tents and other camping gear
• $5 cost
• SEDS will provide hotdogs/burgers
• Bring your own sides

Kitt Peak Trip

• Probably in November
• 5^th or 12^th
• We will need drivers
• Gas will be reimbursed

Space X Released a New Video

• depicts reusable launch vehicle
• recapturable, powered landing for both the 1^st and 2^nd stages as well as the crew and cargo capsule

Business Plan Competition

• Will be working on the business plan this weekend October 8th-9^th
• How will you run your business to be profitable
• Can win $1000, and entry into the competition over the summer
• Then eligible to win $25,000

NASA is Hiring Astronauts

Mars Science Lab was placed into its Heat shield and will launch soon, to reach mars in August 12^th

Nanosatellite and Other Project meetings

• need members
• workgroup meeting at 7pm tomorrow, october 7^th.

Rockoon

• already underway
• need electrical engineers

Officer Meeting 10.3.2011

Officer Meeting 10.3.2011

ASUA

-constitution updated

-need to contact ASUA to update our club form

-need to finalize this process ASAP to secure funding in advance of Spacevision

Spacevision

-Costs from $100-1000 depending on ASUA funding

Peppersauce Camping

-Tentatively scheduled for October 14^th

-Total costs approximately $20

-SEDS will probably fund some of the food

-We WILL reimburse for gas money

Other Small Trips

-Titan Missile Museum & Pima Air and Space

-MMT

-Meteor Crater & Lowell Observatory Medium Trip

-Kitt Peak November 5^th or 12^th

-Friday the 12th off for Veterans day

Events

-Jamba Juice Fundraiser Friday October 7^th 12-3

-Game Night October 21^st

• Flandrau or Kuiper?

Money Box Issue

-Was stolen, need a way to secure it

-Various options discussed

-Purchase new box and cut small slit for money

-New Pricelist

Officer Pictures & Office Hours

-Need photos

-Hours & Calendar posted on the door

Kyle’s List

-Dues increased from $25 to $50 for chapter dues

-Deans excuse process

-SEDS USA survey coming around, should be completed within the next week

-Travel paperwork submitted

-Register for driving

-Microgravity team has been formed

-ASCEND! Team being created, in Nathan’s hands

-Telescope knowledge check

• telescope listed in travel paperwork so UA will insure it if its broken

-ESC: earn points from meetings and participating in events

• can earn $25 per meeting
• should follow up to find out whether we can get funding

-Clean out drawers in the SEDS office

-found Pye Pye’s in her drawer

-Office Cleaning, we’re responsible for cleaning the room

• personal belongings
• mop/sweep floors
• some things are not ours