NOAA will hold the 2023 Space Weather Enterprise Forum on June 22, 2023 from 8:30 am-5:00 pm in SR 325 Russell Senate Office Building. It will be webcast. Participants include: Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK), Chairman, House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Ezinne Uzo-Okoro, …

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Two Russian cosmonauts will make a spacewalk at the International Space Station on June 22, 2023. The approximately 7-hour spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 10:20 am ET. NASA TV coverage begins 9:45 am ET.

The House Appropriations Committee will mark up the FY2024 Defense Appropriations bill on June 22, 2023 in 2359 Rayburn House Office Building. They will also mark up the Energy-Water bill. The markup begins at 10:00 am ET and will be webcast on the committee's website. Subcommittee markup was on June 15.

The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on June 22, 2023 in 253 Russell Senate Office Building at 10:00 am ET to consider the nominations of three individuals to be Commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission, and another for FCC Inspector General. Witnesses are: Fara Damelin to be Inspector General of …

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The Senate Appropriations Committee will meet on June 22, 2023 at 10:30 am ET in 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building to mark up subcommittee allocations and two appropriatons bills (Milcon-Va and Agriculture). Setting subcommittee allocations -- deciding how much money each of the 12 subcommittees can spend for a given fiscal year -- is usually …

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The European Space Agency will hold a virtual pre-launch briefing for the Euclid cosmology mission on June 23, 2023 in English at 14:00 Central European Summer Time (CEST, 8:00 am EDT).  Briefings in other languages are also available. Euclid will observe the universe searching for clues about dark energy and dark matter. Launch is scheduled …

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The AIAA Los Angeles/Las Vegas Section will hold a hybrid mini-conference on "Planetary Defense and Asteroid/Comet Exploration" on June 24, 2023 from 10:30 am - 5:00 pm PACIFIC Time (1:30-8:00 pm Eastern). The in-person event is at the Lawndale Library, 14615 Burin Avenue, Lawndale, CA. The event includes a celebration of the 30th anniversary of …

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The Committee on NASA Critical Workforce, Infrastructure and Technology of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will meet at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi from June 26-28, 2023. Some sessions are open and some are closed. More information is on the committee's website. The agenda is posted with links to the sessions …

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The 26th World Mining Congress will take place in Brisbane, Australia from June 26-29, 2023. The theme is New Mining Frontiers. More information is on the event's website and the website of the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium.

NASA will hold a media telecon on June 26, 2023 at 1:00 pm ET to answer questions about logistics for media planning to cover the return of samples from the asteroid Bennu by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The sample return canister will land near the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah on September 24, 2023. Audio of …

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The Mitchell Institute will hold a virtual event on June 26, 2023 at 3:00 pm ET to release a new report: "Building U.S. Space Force Counterspace Capabilities: An Imperative for America's Defense," by Charles Galbreath, Senior Resident Fellow for Space Studies, Mitchell Institute. Join us for the rollout of our paper: Building U.S. Space Force …

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Update, June 28:  Both workshops were invitation only and took place in June 2023 in London and in the Washington, DC area. Update, June 25: NASA originally said this first feedback workshop would take place in the Washington, DC area, with a subsequent workshop with international organizations in July. Yesterday, however, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam …

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The agenda is now posted.   NASA's Astrophysics Advisory Committee will meet virtually from June 27-28, 2023. The meeting on June 27 is 9:00 am-5:00 pm ET and on June 28 is 9:00 am - 4:00 pm ET. More information is in the Federal Register notice, which is reproduced below. SUMMARY: In accordance with the …

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The 11th European Lunar Symposium will take place in-person in Padua, Italy from June 27-29, 2023. More information is on the event's website.

The second Near-Earth Object Workshop to Assess Reconnaissance for Planetary defense, NEO WARP 2, will take place June 28-30, 2023 at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, MD. More information is on the event's website, which says: The Near-Earth Object Workshops to Assess Reconnaissance for Planetary defense (NEO WARP) series focuses on the …

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The American Instititue of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will hold a webinar, presented by Lockheed Martin, on June 28, 2023 from 1:00-2:00 pm ET on "Space 2050: Our Future Shaped by Today's Space Technology Advances." More information is on the event's website. Participants are:  

The National Security Space Association (NSSA) will hold the NSSA Space Capital Forum at Intelsat's offices in McLean, VA (7800 Tysons One Place) on June 28, 2023 from 2:00-8:00 pm ET. More information is on the event's registration website. The website lists the time as 3:00-8:00 pm ET, but the emailed announcement says 2:00-8:00 pm …

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The ESA Council will hold its 316th meeting in Stockholm, Sweden from June 28-29, 2023. On June 29 from 14:00-15:00 Central European Summer Time (8:00-9:00 am EDT), ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Council Chair Anna Rathsman (Sweden) will hold a press conference at Hotel Hasselbacken (Hazelius Hall), Hazeliusbacken 20, 115 21 Stockholm, SW, …

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George Washington University's Space Policy Institite (SPI) and the Aerospace Corporation's Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS) will hold a discussion on June 29, 2023 from 10:00 am-1:30 pm ET at SPI's offices at 1957 E Street, NW, Washington, DC and online via Zoom. The topic is "Public-Private Synergy in the Space Sector: Risks …

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Update, June 26:  Virgin Galactic announced this morning they are targeting June 29 for the this launch. Their livestream will begin at 9:00 am MOUNTAIN Time (11:00 am EDT).  The passengers are: Original Entry: Virgin Galactic plans to launch its first commercial flight of SpaceShipTwo during a four-day window, June 27-30, 2023, from Spaceport America …

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