Roanoke Valley
Astronomical
Society
Roanoke coordinates: 37o 16' 04" N, 79o 56' 26"W Altitude is about 1050 feet (320
meters)
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RVAS Monthly Meeting: RVAS Monthly Meeting: Monthly meetings will resume on Monday, January 26 at 7:30pm, and are held at the VWCC STEM building ST314.
Our speaker will be Nathan Tehrani who is a contractor guidance control and navigation engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. His presentation is called “Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: Coming Soon to a Lagrange Point Near You!”.
Nathan is currently a flight software developer for the attitude control system on the Roman Space Telescope. Nathan also maintains the spaceflight dynamics simulator that is used for testing on this mission. Before Nathan came to Goddard, he worked at NASA’s Katherine Johnson Facility, and before that, attended WVU for physics and biology in college and then aerospace engineering for grad school.