Update, June 1:  The date has been changed to June 17. A vast ocean lies beneath Europa's icy shell and there is scientific evidence that the ingredients for life may exist on Europa right now. Join the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) for a hybrid presentation (offered in-person and virtually) by Dr. Walter Kiefer, Director of …

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The European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Union will hold a joint press conference on June 18, 2025 at 11:30 Central European Summer Time (5:30 am Eastern Daylight Time) at the 55th Paris Air Show taking place outside Paris at Le Bourget, FR.  It will be webcast on ESA Web TV. Participants are: Josef …

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The National Security Space Association (NSSA) will hold a classified meeting on June 19, 2025 at Lockheed Martin in Herndon, VA from 8:00 am-5:15 pm ET followed by a networking reception. More information is on the event's website, which says: The Space Threats and Acquisition Forum (TS/SI-TK//NOFORN), part of the esteemed NSSA Signature Series, is the …

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The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) will hold a hearing on the FY2026 budget request for the Department of Defense on June 18, 2025 at 9:30 am ET in SD-G50 Dirksen Senate Office Building.  The hearing will be webcast. Witnesses are: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Gen. Dan …

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The Maryland Space Business Roundtable (MSBR) will hold a luncheon on June 18, 2025 from 11:30 am-1:00 pm ET at Martin's Crosswinds in Greenbelt, MD. The speaker is Chris Scolese, Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). More information is on the event's website.

The National Space Society's 43rd International Space Development Conference, ISDC 2025, will take place from June 19-22, 2025 at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, FL. The theme is: "Together Beyond!". More information is on the event's website.  

June 19, 2025 is a U.S. Federal holiday, Juneteenth National Independence Day, which celebrates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States after the Civil War. Government offices will be closed.

The Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) and others are holding an International Virtual Workshop on Interoperability and Lunar Activities Database on June 19, 2025 beginning at 9:00 am EDT (1:00 pm GMT, 3:00 pm CEST).  The duration is 3h 30 min. "Everyone is welcome: space agencies, industry (including startups), academia, NPOs and NGOs, and everyone …

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The 2025 International Planetary Probe Workshop will take place June 21-27, 2025 at Look21, a conference venue in the city center of Stuttgart, Germany. More information is on the event's website.

The European Lunar Symposium will take plae June 22-27, 2025 at the Universität Münster in Münster, Germany. More information is on the event's website.

The European Space Agency (ESA) will hold the Living Planet Symposium from June 23-27, 2025, at the Austria Center Vienna, Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1, 1220 Vienna, Austria. More information is on the event's website. ESA will webcast several sessions of the symposium. Visit the ESA Web TV website for links.  As of June 21, these are the …

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Update, June 20:  The launch has been rescheduled for June 23 at 6:54 am ET "pending range approval." Update, June 16, 1:00 pm: The launch has been scrubbed ""due to an engineering observation of an elevated purge temperature within the booster engine" per ULA's website.  Update, June 10:  The launch has slipped to June 16 …

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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will hold a virtual fireside chat with Air Marshal Paul Godfrey, Assistant Chief of Space Operations for Future Concepts and Partnerships, about the U.S. Space Force International Partnership Strategy on June 23, 2025 from 10:00-11:00 am ET. More information is on the event's website, which says: Please …

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On June 23, 2025 at 9:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (10:00 am June 24 local time in Tokyo) Japan's ispace lunar landing company will provide on update on their investigation into the landing failure of the SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon mission two weeks ago. The press conference will take place in Tokyo, Chuo City, …

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Update, May 9:  The agenda is posted.  The website is online. Original Entry: NASA's Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) will meet from June 24-25, 2025 at the Arvada Center in Arvada, CO and virtually. As of April 2, the  SBAG website is still offline (due to the Trump Administration's DEI mandates), but the Lunar and …

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The Mitchell Institute will hold its next Schriever Spacepower Series webinar on June 24, 2025 from 9:00-10:00 am ET. The speaker is Kelly Hammett, Director of the U.S. Space Force's (USSF's) Space Rapid Capabilities Office. More information and registration instructions are on the event's website, which says: We are pleased to welcome Dr. Kelly D. …

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The European Space Agency (ESA) will hold media briefings in several languages on June 24, 2025 in person and/or online to discuss the upcoming launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 of two spacecraft: the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) and the Copernicus Sentinel-4 instrument. The briefings in English and German will take place in-person at …

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Update, June 24: The launch is still scheduled for early tomorrow morning, June 25, 2:31 am ET.  Axiom and SpaceX will begin their webcast at 12:30 am ET.  NASA+ will join at 1:40 am ET. Update, June 23;  NASA has set another new launch date -- Wednesday, June 25, at 2:31 am ET. Update, June …

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DSI Group will hold the 8th Annual SmallSat &  Space Access Summit at 151 St. George, National Harbor, MD from June 25-26, 2025. More information is on the event's website.

The 68th session of the U.N. Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) will take place at the Vienna International Centre in Vienna, Austria from June 25-July 4, 2025. The event will be webcast on the COPUOS website.