Join the DARC for the Oct 2021 virtual (Google Meet) general club meeting at 7pm Oct 5, 2020. The DARC will be hosting a Show And Tell nite at the general club meeting. Come show and tell us all something. Please sign up below.
Launch site: SLC-3E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch the Landsat 9 Earth observation satellite for NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. Built by Northrop Grumman, Landsat 9 will continue the series of Landsat images of Earth dating back nearly 50 years. The rocket will fly in the 401 vehicle configuration with a four-meter fairing, no solid rocket boosters, and a single-engine Centaur upper stage. Delayed from Sept. 16 by liquid oxygen shortage. [Aug. 27]
September
Long March 7 • Tianzhou 3
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: Wenchang, China
A Chinese Long March 7 will launch the Tianzhou 3 resupply ship to dock with the Chinese space station. The automated cargo craft is the second resupply freighter for the Chinese space station. [June 18]
Sept. 30/Oct. 1
Epsilon • RAISE 2
Launch time: 0048-0059 GMT on 1st (8:48-8:59 p.m. EDT on 30th)
Launch site: Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
A Japanese Epsilon rocket will launch the Rapid Innovative Payload Demonstration Satellite 2, or RAISE 2, technology demonstration satellite for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Eight smaller rideshare payloads will also be on this launch. [Aug. 23]
NET October
Electron • BlackSky 10 & 11
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: Launch Complex 1A, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch two small satellites for BlackSky’s commercial fleet of Earth observation spacecraft. Rocket Lab has nicknamed this mission “Love At First Insight.” Delayed from late August and September. [Sept. 10]
Join the DARC for Lecture and Lab Sat Sep 25, 2021 from 11am until 2/3pm Central Time virtually via Google Meet. (The virtual meeting ID/Link is always on the W5FC event calendar) During this lecture and Lab, we’ll be building an DIY FM Radio – it is a complete kit with all the parts and a case – runs on 5 volts via USB cable. Participants can purchase a kit by coming out to the Dallas Medical Center parking lot Sep 18, 2021 between 10:30am – 11:30am central. Cost of the kit is $20.00 – KF5ZBL will be there passing out the kits – we have a total of 15 available.
This is to inform folks the Echolink Node “W5FC-R” Node “37247” is down indefinitely as of Sep 4, 2021
It appears it’s a software failure of some sort and will take some time to update and install both the OS and a new version of “Svxlink” – the Linux server version of “Echolink.”
I will inform everyone when the node is operational again. It is unlikely (though not impossible) the node will be available for Saturday’s “Night of Nets.”
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