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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:32:17 CST
From:         wingo%7977.span@FEDEX.MSFC.NASA.GOV
Subject:      TCON and other stuff

I will not be at the Tcon on Sunday. I will be on the plane leaving LA. I
have a big meeting at McDonnell Douglas in Huntington Beach on Thursday with
MacDac, the Air Force and NASA Marshall, Goddard and Headquarters on SEDSAT 1.

This is the first "official" meeting regarding SEDSAT 1. We will be verifying
the secondary payload envelope, weight and center of gravity, as well as things
like antennas and how they mount on the satellite.

Last week we received the strongest statement yet that we will have a launch
in March 94 on a Delta II GPS mission. We have to keep the pressure up and
start building the hardware to make this happen.

We will know within about three weeks if we will be getting $20,000 from the
state of South Dakota for the transponders. This will help greatly in getting
this all important system completed. Students at the South Dakota school of
mines and South Dakota State University will be building a small sensor that
will be used to sense lightning while SEDSAT 1 passes over. The IEEE club
at each school will be building the experiment which will be funded by the
South Dakota Space Grant Consortium.

I will be in Pasadena on Friday afternoon for a meeting at JPL. I will call
Irwin and see if we can get together.

There is an article in this month's QST magazine, the largest amateur radio
magazine in the world, on SEDS and SEDSAT 1. you local radio store will have
a copy.

I made a presentation today on SEDSAT 1 to Owen Garriott, one of the Skylab
astronauts and a Vice President at Teledyne Brown Engineering in Huntsville.
It seems that there will soon be available a few dozen Minuteman II, and III
ICBM's that can be converted to civilian launchers. They are surveying the
market to see what can be launched. Some folks from NASA headquarters were
also there.

Cheryl will be making a presentation to a group of atmospheric science teachers
on friday on the remote sensing aspects of SEDSAT 1. We have gained a great
deal of support and as of now we have two NASA Earth Observing System
scientists that will collaborate with us on SEDSAT 1 remote sensing data.

On the 24th of this month Astronaut Jan Davis, who recently flew on the
Shuttle will meet with SEDS members at the SEDS house on Campus. She
specifically requested to meet with us and find out what students are doing
in to promote space education and research. Ms. davis will also fly on the
mission that will carry the Russian cosmonaut in 1994.

UAH SEDS will sponsor a pizza lunch speaker next week on space station as
part of our contribution to UAH homecoming activities this year. SEDS name
is on all of the publicity regarding homecoming activities this year.
Activities of this nature that UAH SEDS has undertaken to support campus life
has done much to help the image of SEDS as more than merely a bunch of
space cadets. The UAH Student Government Association has been very receptive
to other things that SEDS wants to do that are spacey because of our work to
support non spac campus activities.

This is a brief update on our activities here at UAH. It looks like our
membership now is up in the 70-80 range. We are drawing many students to SEDS
that are also members of other student groups such as ASME, IEEE, and SPS. We
have been very successful in working with other student groups to support
our space agenda as well as supporting their own projects. With a student
population of 8000 at UAH it looks like around 1% of the campus population
are SEDS members!

Dennis, University of Alabama in Huntsville
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