January 17, 2022 is a Federal holiday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday.  Federal offices will be closed.

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Update, January 14, 2022:  An updated agenda WITH NEW WEBEX LINKS, is now posted. Original Entry: The Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Committee of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) will meet virtually January 18-19, 2022, its first meeting in just over a year. The committee will meet publicly January 18 from 10:00-12:30 pm ET and …

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The Maryland Space Business Roundtable (MSBR) will hold a webinar on January 18, 2022 at 1:00 pm ET.  The speaker is Dennis Andrucyk, Director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The event will be livestreamed on Goddard's Ustream channel.  

The Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will meet virtually on January 18, 2022 from 1:00-2:30 pm ET. The meeting will be livestreamed.  

U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond will be the guest at the Mitchell Institute's next Schriever Spacepower Forum on January 18, 2022 at 3:00 pm ET.  Gen. Kevin Chilton (Ret.), Explorer Chair for Space Warfighting Studies at the Mitchell Institute, will moderate the discussion. More information is on the event's website.

(NASA TV begins 6:00 am ET)

Dr. Stacie Pettyjohn, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Defense Program will engage in a virtual "fireside chat" with Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall III on January 19, 2022 from 11:00-11:45 am ET. More information is on the event's website, which says: Please join the Center …

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(invitation only)

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Aerospace Security Project Director Todd Harrison will sit down with U.S. Space Force General John “Jay” Raymond on January 19, 2022 from 2:30-3:30 pm ET to discuss the progress made since the Space Force was created two years ago and look ahead. More information is on the event's …

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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) will hold two "listening sessions" on the topic of orbital debris to gain perspectives for input to the National Science and Technology Policy Council's Orbital Debris Research and Development Interagency Working Group. The listening sessions are as follows: Jan. 13, 2022, 1:00-3:00 pm ET: Orbital …

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The U.S. Space Force Association will hold its next Space Warfighter Talk (SWT) on January 20, 2022 at 12:00 pm Mountain Time (2:00 pm Eastern). The guest is Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, Commander, Space Operations Command, U.S. Space Force. More information is on the event's website.

The American Astronautical Society (AAS) will hold its next Future in Space Hangout on January 20, 2022 at 3:00 pm ET. The topic is "Options in Exploration: Public-Private Partnerships in Space."  It can be viewed on YouTube. More information is on the event's website, which says: Unlike in the Apollo era, the private sector now …

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SEDS-Canada will holds its 2022 student conference, Ascension 2022, virtually from January 21-23, 2022. The theme this year is: "To Infinity and Beyond -- Innovation in Space." More information is on the event's website.

Update, January 6. 2022:  Due to the spread of the omicron COVID-19 variant, AMS has decided this meeting will take place only virtually, not in-person.  More information is on the event's website.  The associated Student Conference remains a hybrid event. Original Entry: The American Meteorological Society (AMS) will hold its 102nd annual meeting in a …

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NASA's Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) will meet virtually from January 24-25, 2022. More information is on the SBAG website. The agenda is posted.  Open sessions of the meeting are 12:00-6:00 pm ET on January 24 and 12:00-4:30 pm ET on January 25.

The Committee on the Analysis of Causes of Failure and Collapse of the 305-Meter Telescope at the Arecibo Observatory will meet virtually on January 24-25, 2022 from 1:00-4:30 pm ET in open session each day.  (Other sessions are closed.) The meeting will be livestreamed. More information and the agenda are on the committee's website.

The Biological Sciences Panel of the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space of the National  Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will meet virtually on January 24, 2022. Most of the meeting is closed, but an open session will take place from 12:00-1:30 pm ET. More information and the agenda are the …

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The Physical Sciences Panel of the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will meet virtually on January 24, 2022.  Most of the meeting is closed, but an open session is from 12:00-2:00 pm ET. More information is on the panel's website.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will arrive at its final destination, the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point-2 (SEL-2) after a million mile journey on January 24, 2022.  It was launched on December 25, 2021. NASA will fire the spacecraft's thrusters to enter orbit around SEL-2 at 2:00 pm ET. At 3:00 pm ET, NASA will host …

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