Mission – Why We Exist
- Help enthusiasts find ways to contribute.
- Provide sources of enabling training to facilitate engineering prototyping.
- Establish a clearinghouse for the ongoing objective analysis of proposed space development technologies.
Meeting Details for each Months Meeting
Sacramento L5 Society (SacL5) Meeting Minutes
Home Page: SacramentoL5Society.org
SacL5 Officers: Joe Bland President, Jan Rosten VP, Ed Kulis Secretary/Website Admin (click name to email)
Date: March 8, 2025
Time:6:00 PM – 7:30 PM PST
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Attendees: Joe Bland, Paul Turner, Ed Kulis, Jan Rosten, Michael Abramson, Gregory Lipscomb, Eric James
Call to Order
Meeting commenced at 6:00 PM PST. Members were welcomed, and new attendees introduced themselves.
Reports & Updates
President’s & Treasurer’s Report (Joe Bland)
– Status of “frozen” checking account: Still unresolved despite Larry’s efforts.
– Discussion on a new Vice President.
– Fred Becker labeled SacL5 as “dormant.”
– Creation of a shared Google Drive folder for SacL5 records.
– Ed will checkout features of Google Drive for collaboration.
– Discussion on setting up an L5 Society Google account.
– Gregory to create a Gmail account for SacL5.
– Gmail account will be used to manage YouTube access and key documents.
– Action: Follow-up with Joe on SacL5 Google login details.
– Action: Contact Kris regarding account setup.
SacL5 Website Update (Ed Kulis)
– Website development and updates, including Arduino-related content.
Updates on NSS Activities
– NSS Chapters’ Assembly (Jan Roston) & NSSCA Chapter Resources Subcommittee (Ed Kulis): Updates provided.
– NSS Chapter Committee (Joe Bland): Discussion on engagement and initiatives.
SES School Contact & MiniCube Grant Program (Paul Turner)
– Update on outreach activities and grant program progress.
Old Business
Action Items:
– Joe Bland: Create a 3D CAD model of a MiniCube.
– Joe Bland: Remove XHS from the agenda.
– Ed Kulis: Attempt to contact Kris.
– Michael Abramson: Development of White Paper on “Open Space Organization (OSO).”
New Business
– Discussion on launching a balloon flight device using one or two MiniCube flights (Ed Kulis, Paul Turner).
– Considerations on material choices for space-related projects:
– Lightweight plastic screws.
– Poster board vs. transparent printable materials.
– Frame design and battery insulation requirements.
Member Project Updates
Eric’s Steam Engine (Eric James)
– Acquired pump and input valve.
– Video available; Eric to share links.
NASA Grant Application (Joe Bland)
– Discussion on potential application and related subjects.
General Discussion
Space News
– SpaceX explosion and commercial moon landing updates.
– Gateway project and related funding concerns.
– Debate on breaking SpaceX monopoly.
– Discussion on NASA’s funding decline and policy changes.
– Review of historical aerospace figures (Doolittle, Mueller, Billy Mitchell).
Adjournment
Meeting adjourned at 7:30 PM PST.
Next Meeting: Saturday, April 12, 2025 – 6pm PT
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Minutes Prepared by: Ed Kulis
Sacramento L5 Society (SacL5) Secretary
Project Activities
Projects in Progress
- Balloon Device Project – See: Details
- Project started for see details page created on website
- Eric’s Steam Engine
- Will run on compressed air.
- It’s a “Walking Beam” Design with fly-ball governors to stabilize speed with offset cams to operate the steam valves.
- White Paper on an Open Space Organization
- Development of White Paper on an “Open Space Organization (OSO) (Michael Abramson)
- Michael presented the current state of the proposed white paper.
- We will look for other names since “Open Space Organization” has awkward connotations and “Outer Space Organization” may be in use by other organizations.
- Here are a few alternative suggested by Michael and Joe:
- Open Outer Space Organization (OOSO)
- United Outer Space Organization (UOSO)
- Space Development Organization (SDO)
- Space Developers Organization (SDO)
- Outer Space Development Organization (OSDO)
- Outer Space Developers Organization (OSDO)
- United Space Development Organization (USDO)
- United Space Developers Organization (USDO)
- United Outer Space Development Organization (UOSDO)
- United Outer Space Developers Organization (UOSDO
- Organization of Outer Space Development (OOSD)
- Organization of Outer Space Developers (OOSD)
- Joe’s Projects and Patents
- Joe’s patent applications on energy generation, storage, and distribution still in process
- Patent office hasn’t rejected any patents and the process is moving forward.
Chapter Library
- Paul Turner Books
- See Paul Turner’s Publications at Cle Curbo on Spotify and Space Trade Update
- Quest for Sylvane to buy: Amazon.com Services LLC. To learn more: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFK3R5JK/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_4GW4RK0NG26WJWD29GYA
- In the Garden of Mistress Bloom – Awarding winning SciFi Stories
- A debut collection of short sci-fi fiction that explores time and space with mischievous humor.
- JP Aerospace
- Tours
- NSS Headquarters at the Cape offers tours of Kennedy Space Center
- Breakfast on the Moon Series
- SacL5 YouTube Breakfast on the Moon Series
- The YouTube channel contains the series of video conferences that SacL5 organized from 2019 through 2023 to celebrate each of the Apollo Lunar Landing Missions.
- Websites – Cool Links
- Dark Sky Festival
- Meet the artist that shot a bouquet of flowers 30,000 meters into space | CNN
- A Japanese Artist Launches Plants Into Space (nytimes.com)
- Homepage | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
- Webb’s Jupiter Images Showcase Auroras, Hazes – James Webb Space Telescope
- Andry Astronaut You Tube
- NASA Cube Sats
- Dream Chaser
- Books
- Rebecca Doyle is the Author of Our Moon
- Rebecca is a journalist covering the cosmos, with a focus on astronomy, space exploration, and history.
- The late Robert Compton, our SacL5 founder. published a Physics text book like no other.
- Design Notes Log G,O.D (General Operations Director)
- This is a text book like no other. It follows the mental processes of the lonely Creator, defining matter to enhance the experience of existence and then creating time to distinguish matter as it moves. The logic continues in this way to build the intuition and demonstrate the mathematics required in the first few years of college physics courses.
- Some of you may remember that thrill. as you learned the calculus of derivatives providing the symbols that could move the static structures of algebra through the pictures in your mind. Compton’s book continues this thrilling awe that mathematics creates as its symbols correspond mostly to the universe with enough accuracy to create houses and steeples and medicine and instruments to travel beyond the clouds and deep into atoms.
- Design Notes Log G,O.D (General Operations Director)
- A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars” by Les Johnson – Realistic discussions of crewed starship designs / timeframes for a feasible trip to Proxima Centuri in a reasonable amount of time
- “The Sparrow” by Mary Doria Russell – A SciFi novel about the first contact and a a trip to meet singing aliens living near Proxima Centuri. The meeting does not go well.
- The Alice Network – Women Spies in World War 1
- Fly Girls – How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
- Goodnight Moon Base – What if every bedtime was a powerful inspiration for your child’s future?
- Rebecca Doyle is the Author of Our Moon
- Media
- Moonfall – Leave your physics back at home but if you like a series of mostly predictable travails to reflect dim light on your popcorn then go for it.
- Start Trek: Strange New Worlds – “Quality of Mercy” – Last episode of Season 1. Rich characters, deep references, thoughtful reflection on what qualities are mercy
- The Orville: New Horizons – Comedy but good
- Star Trek: Discovery – No universe too big to save and of course, need to save all multi-verses through all time…
- Severance – Hmm…, might that enthusiasm for work, plaques, and quarterly pizza parties really be for someone else?
