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Bob Twiggs Keynote Address at 2024 AMSAT Space Symposium Now Available
For those who missed Bob Twiggs, KE6QMD, keynote address at the 2023 AMSAT
Space Symposium, now is your chance to catch up on this delightful and
informative presentation. You can view Bobâ€Ös 36-minute presentation at
https://youtu.be/uDPJ4SHAF74?si=c9f3xM8G1KFUjZPw. Sorry, there are no
advanced mathematical formulas or complex orbital mechanics to be found
here. Bob is a consummate story teller who brings warmth and humanity to
the pioneering days of amateur satellites. If you werenâ€Öt in Dallas for the
live event, this is the next best thing to being there.
Robert J. Twiggs is a professor of Astronautics and Space Science at
Morehead State University. He is responsible, along with Jordi Puig-Suari
of California Polytechnic State University, for co-inventing the CubeSat
reference design for miniaturized satellites which became an Industry
Standard for design and deployment of the satellites.
Twiggs earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics
Engineering from the University of Idaho in 1961 and a Master of Science in
Electrical Engineering with a concentration in microwave devices from
Stanford University in 1964.
From 1985 to 1994, Twiggs was the director of the Weber State University
Center for Aerospace Technology. He served as a consulting professor in the
Stanford University Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics from 1994 to
2008. At Stanford, he established the Space Systems Development Laboratory.
Bob Twiggs became a professor at Morehead State University in 2009 in an
effort to push the PocketQube standard leveraging the universityâ€Ös large
aperture space tracking system, and to help develop a space economy in the
state of Kentucky.
In 2019, Twiggs designed and proposed another smaller, simpler satellite
form factor called ThinSat which could enable high school students to
design and build satellites.
[ANS thanks AMSAT and Wikipedia for the above information and David
Beaujean, N8EPF, for his excellent work in editing the video presentation
for our enjoyment.]
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