The Saveitforparts Space Base!

This fall I went up to Ontario, Canada, to pick up an 18ft diameter geodesic dome! (In the picture above, it’s the same size as the one on the far right).

This was at a former NATO satellite facility near the Diefenbunker, outside Ottawa. The big white dome on top of the building is still in use, so we just got a smaller one. You can see the full story below:

We’re planning to install this at Sandland for use as a radio observatory and general cool looking lawn ornament, probably in the upper field near the fast food playland that we picked up previously.

Huge thanks to Marcus Leech and the Canadian Center for Experimental Radio Astronomy (https://www.ccera.ca/) as well as CSS Building Inc (https://www.cssbuilding.ca/) for hooking us up with this! The CCERA is refurbishing the big satellite antenna at Carp into a radio telescope. You can see more about them here:

They’re all volunteers, and as with most science things, they can always use more funding! If you’d like to help CCERA with a donation, click here: https://gofund.me/29c87cc8 Parts of this video were filmed on location at the Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War museum. I’ll probably be doing another follow-up video on the bunker since it’s so big and interesting! You can find more about it here: https://diefenbunker.ca/ Thanks also to @SimpleElectronics and Tim Skinner (https://timpossible.photography/) for helping out with this project!

Stay tuned for more videos about this project, coming soon!

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