NASA OUTER PLANETS ASSESSMENT GROUP (OPAG), Apr 20, 2026, virtual, 12:30-2:45 pm ET

UPDATE, April 17:  The agenda is posted. The meeting is from 12:30 pm-2:45 pm ET.

Original Entry: NASA’s Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) will hold a virtual meeting on April 20, 2026.

The agenda was not posted as of April 12.  Check the OPAG website for the time of the meeting and other  information.

NASA’s Planetary Science Division is terminating support for all of its Analysis/Assessment Groups, or AGs, at the end of April 2026, but some are assessing other methods for continuing their interactions.

An email sent to the OPAG community on April 15, 2026 says:

Dear OPAG Community,

We hope this finds you all doing well and wanted to provide you with a quick update on upcoming OPAG activities.

This is a reminder that on Monday, April 20, 2026, we will be hosting a virtual community meeting starting at 12:30 p.m. Eastern / 9:30 a.m. Pacific, which will include updates and a Q&A session with our Planetary Science Division (PSD) Director, Dr. Louise Prockter. You should have received instructions to register, but just in case, the information and registration link can be found here:

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/meetings/april2026/

As usual, there is no registration fee, but you must register to participate via the link above. We encourage you to submit and upvote questions ahead of the meeting so we can best utilize our time with Director Prockter. Please submit questions here: https://tinyurl.com/OPAG202604.

In case you have not yet had the opportunity to view them, we strongly encourage the community to watch the updates relevant to the OPAG community from PSD that were presented at the LPSC meeting in March.

NASA Headquarters Briefing (Dr. Louise Prockter and Dr. Brad Bailey): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srof-LqPqBw&t=824s

NASA Headquarters Planetary Research Briefing (Dr. Kathleen Vander Kaaden & Dr. Aaron Burton): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8-enBzNwlo&t=321s

We appreciate you! And thank you for your patience and continued engagement through this transitional time. If you’d like to continue to receive emails from OPAG after April, please make sure you’ve signed up for our OPAG list-serve here: https://forms.gle/PAmfgibKjZNfpTt3A.