The 16th European Space Conference will take place January 23-24, 2024 at the Square Brussels Convention Center, Brussels, Belgium. More information is on the event's website, which says: Shaping the future of European Space ambition The 16th annual European Space Conference will be held on the 23rd and 24th of January 2024 at the Square Brussels Convention Center, in Brussels, …

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Lockheed Martin hold its 4Q2023 and full year 2023 financial results telecon on January 23, 2024 at 11:00 am ET. Audio will be livestreamed on the company's website.  Speakers are: James Taiclet, chairman, president and chief executive officer; Jay Malave, chief financial officer; and Maria Ricciardone, vice president, Treasurer and Investor Relations

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Associate Administrator Jim Free will hold a Town Hall meeting at NASA HQ in Washington, DC to discuss "how NASA safety is the cornerstone to achieving mission success." It will be livestreamed on the NASA+ streaming service, NASA TV and the agency's website. The event will …

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Update, January 24, 11:30 pm ET.   JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) says the press conference will only be in Japanese.  However, they will post English-language material on their website. There will be a press briefing on the SLIM lunar landing from 14:00 JST today. While the briefing will be only in Japanese, …

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The Space Force Association (SFA) will hold a virtual Space Warfighter Talk on January 25, 2024 from 3:00-4:00 pm MOUNTAIN Time (5:00-6:00 pm Eastern). The speaker is Lt. Gen. David "Rock" Miller, Jr., Commander, Space Operations Command, U.S. Space Force. More information and a registration link are on the event's website.

The Committee on the Review of Progress Toward Implementing the Decadal Survey--Thriving on Our Changing Planet: A Decadal Strategy for Earth Observation from Space of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will meet at the Academies' Beckman Center in Irvine, CA from January 25-26, 2024.  The committee is colloquially referred to as the …

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The African Space Leadership Institute (ASLI) will hold a webinar on January 25, 2024 from 8:00-9:30 am ET to discuss "Global Efforts on Space Sustainability." The webinar will be facilitated by Brian Weeden, Director of Program Planning for the Secure World Foundation. More information is on the event's website.

Correction:  The telecon is on January 25 not January 24. Apologies for our error. Original Entry: Northrop Grumman will hold its 4th Quarter 2023 financial results telecon on January 24, 2024 at 9:00 am ET. The telecon will be broadcast on the company's website. Speakers are: Kathy Warden, chair, chief executive officer and president, and …

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Update January 20:  The KSC/Astronaut Memorial Foundation event will begin at 10:00 am ET and be livestremed on Kennedy’s Facebook, X, and YouTube pages. In addition to KSC, other NASA centers will hold events as explained in NASA's January 19 press release. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Associate Administrator Jim Free will hold a wreath …

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Update, January 25:  Participants in the first briefing are: Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA Johnson Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station Program, NASA Johnson Sarah Walker, director, Dragon Mission Management, SpaceX Sergei Krikalev, executive director, Human Space Flight Programs, Roscosmos Participants in the second briefing are the four Crew-8 astronuuts plus NASA astronaut …

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At about 3:00 pm ET today, NASA announced it will hold a media telecon at 5:00 pm ET to talk about the end of flights of the Mars Ingenuity helicopter, which suffered a mission-ending failure after far exceeding its design lifetime. Audio of the telecon will air on NASA TV. Participants are: Lori Glaze, Planetary …

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Virgin Galactic is targeting January 26, 2024 for its first SpaceShipTwo flight of the year, Galactic 06. This will be the first flight with four passengers instead of three passengers and a Virgin Galactic employee in the cabin. The company has not named the passengers, but describes them as from Texas, Austria, California, and "Ukraine …

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The ISS National Lab will host a webinar on January 26, 2024 at 1:00 pm ET to discuss research that will be delivered to the International Space Station by Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft on the NG-20 mission scheduled for launch on January 29, 2024 at 12:29 pm ET. The webinar will be livestreamed.  More information …

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Update, January 26, 6:00 pm:  The time has been changed to 6:30 pm ET. Original Entry: NASA, SpaceX and Northrop Grumman will hold a pre-launch briefing for Northrop Grumman's NG-20 Cygnus cargo launch to the International Space Station planned for January 29, 2024. This is the first Cygnus launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9.  Ordinarily …

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The American Meteorological Society (AMS) will hold its 104th annual meeting from January 28-February 1, 2024 at the Baltimore Convention Center and the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor. More information is on the event's website.

The 61st session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the U.N. Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) will take place at the Vienna International Center, Vienna, Austria from January 29-February 9, 2024.  Portions will be webcast. More information is on the COPUOUS website.  A number of side events are also posted there.

The Global Spaceport Alliance (GSA) will hold its annual GSA Spaceport Summit on January 29, 2024 at the Orlando County Convention Center, Orlando, FL.  More information is on the event's website. This conference takes place in concert with the U.S. Space Force's Space Mobility Conference (January 30) and the SpaceCom|Space Congress conference (January 30-February 1). …

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The Committee to Assess NASA Science Activation 2.0 of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will meet in open session at the Keck Center, 500 5th Street, NW, Washington, DC on January 29, 2024 from 11:00 am-4:00 pm ET. More information and the agenda are on the committee's website. The website says it …

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Update, January 28:  According to conference website plans have changed because of the Israeli-Hamas war. The Ilan Ramon International Space Conference is part of Israeli Space Week. The conference is only one day this year, January 30, from 07:30-17:00 local time (12:30 am-10:00 am Eastern Standard Time) at the Air Force Center in Herzliya and …

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SPACECOM and the 50th Space Congress will take place at the Orlando County Convention Center in Orlando, FL from January 30-February 1, 2024. More information is on the event's website. This conference takes place in concert with the Global Spaceport Alliance (GSA) Spaceport Summit (January 29) and the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command's Space …

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