The Maryland Space Business Roundtable (MSBR) will hold a luncheon on August 16, 2022 from 11:30 am-1:30 pm ET at Martin's Crosswinds in Greenbelt, MD. The speaker is Dr. Christyl Johnson, Deputy Director for Technology and Research at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. More information is on the event's website.

NASA will hold a media telecon on August 16, 2022 at 12:00 pm ET to preview the technology demonstration and solar system payloads on the Artemis I mission.  It will air on NASA Live. Participants are: Patrick Troutman, strategy and architectures liaison for NASA’s Moon to Mars Architecture Development Office Dustin Gohmert, Orion crew survival …

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The Space Foundation will hold the next in its Start Here for Space webinar series on August 16, 2022 from 1:00-1:30 pm ET. The guest is Jill Smyth, Counselor for Space Affairs at the Canadian Space Agency and CSA's representative in Washington, DC. More information and registration instructions are on the event's website.  

(Livestream begins 3:00 pm ET)

(NASA TV begins 9:00 am ET)

NASA will hold a media telecon on August 17, 2022 at 12:00 pm ET to preview radiation secondary payloads on the Artemis I mission.  It was air on NASA Live. Participants are: Ramona Gaza, MARE science team lead, NASA Thomas Berger, Helga and Zohar principal investigator, German Aerospace Center Oren Milstein, chief executive officer, StemRad …

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Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate (SMD), will hold a virtual Town Hall meeting to discuss updates to NASA's science program on August 17, 2022 from 12:30-1:30 pm ET. More information and instructions on how to participate are in this emailed announcement.   The Division of Biological and Physical Sciences invites …

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Update. 2:30 pm ET: they had technical difficulties and are restarting the meeting. The link below works now for everyone. Note, August 18:  We were unable to access the meeting using the links below, which seem to be for people who have NASA smart cards. NASA Planetary Science Division Director Lori Glaze will hold a …

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Suzanne Dodd, Voyager Project Manager at JPL, will deliver a lecture on August 18, 2022 at 7:00 pm Pacific Time (10:00 pm ET) on the twin Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977 and still sending back data 45 years later from their current positions in interstellar space. More information is on the event's website. It will …

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The International Space Elevator Consortium will hold its 2022 conference virtually from August 19-20, 2022, 1500-1900 UTC (11:00 am - 3:00 pm EDT). More information and the agenda are on the event's website.  

(NASA TV begins 10:45 am ET)

NASA will hold a media teleconference on August 19, 2022 at 2:00 pm ET to announce regions near the lunar South Pole that are potential landing sites for Artemis III, the first NASA mission to return astronauts to the lunar surface since the Apollo program. NASA is targeting late 2025 for that mission. The telecon …

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will hold the first meeting of the steering committee for the Decadal Survey on Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) from August 22-23, 2022. More information and the agenda are on the committee's website.  The meeting is virtual. Some sessions are open and some are closed.  Open sessions …

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NASA astronaut Frank Rubio will participate virtually in a pre-launch news conference on August 22, 2022 at 9:00 am ET. Rubio will launch to the International Space Station with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin on Soyuz MS-22 on September 21. The news conference will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the …

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Update, August 22, 6:55 pm ET: NASA just sent an email saying it will start at 8:00 pm ET. Original entry: NASA will hold a series of pre-launch briefings for the Artemis I test launch of the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, scheduled for launch No Earlier Than (NET) August 29, 2022.  The full …

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The European Space Agency (ESA) will hold a media briefing on August 23, 2022 at 11:00 Central European Summer Time (5:00 am EDT) to discuss Europe's role in the Artemis I mission. ESA builds the Service Module for the Orion spacecraft. Airbus is the prime contractor. The briefing will be livestreamed on ESA TV. Participants …

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NASA's Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG) will meet in-person in Laurel, MD, with a virtual option, from August 23-25, 2022. More information is on the event's website. The agenda is now posted.

The Space Foundation will hold the next in its Start Here for Space webinar series on August 23, 2022 from 1:00-1:30 pm ET. The guest is Nicholas Maubert, Space Counselor to the French Embassy in Washington, DC. More information and registration instructions are on the event's website.

The U.S Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) will hold an Industry Days event on August 24-25, 2022 at the Aerospace Corporation campus in El Segundo, CA. The topic is Tactically Responsive Space. More information and a registration link are on the event's website, which says: Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) Government-Industry Exchange This event features …

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The Space Frontier Foundation will hold the NewSpace Conference 2022 from August 24-26, 2022 at the Graduate Hotel in Seattle, Washington. More information and registration instructions are on the event's website.