The 39th Annual Small Satellite Conference, SmallSat, will take place August 10-13, 2025 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. For the past 38 years, this conference has been held at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, but attendance has outgrown the facilities there. The theme is:  "Reaching New Horizons: New …

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The Lunar Applied Sciences Panel of the National Academies study on Key Non-Polar Destinations Across the Moon to Address Decadal-level Science Objectives with Human Explorers will meet in open session on August 12, 2025 from 8:55 am - 5:15 pm PACIFIC Time (11:55 am-8:15 pm Eastern) at the Beckman Center in Irvine, CA. The meeting …

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Update, August 10: ULA was finally given permission to share the launch time/window: 7:59-8:59 pm ET. The weather remains 75% "go."  ULA's live broadcast will begin at 7:39 pm ET.  Text updates are being posted already at https://www.ulalaunch.com/missions/next-launch/vulcan-ussf-106. Update, August 8:  ULA says that it is not allowed to disclose the launch time or launch …

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Update August 10:  The Atlantic Council says the meeting has been canceled. The Atlantic Council did not say why, but Politico reported on July 24, 2025 that DOD "has suspended participation in all think tank and research events until further notice." Original Entry: The Atlantic Council will hold a meeting at its offices in Washington, …

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The Atlantic Council will hold an in-person event on August 13, 2025 at 10:00 am ET at their offices at 1400 L St. NW, Washington, DC.  The event will be livestreamed and is a substitute for a previously scheduled event on the same topic with USSF's Jonathan Farrow that was canceled. The title is: "Experts …

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Update, August 12:  Colby Carrier from Aetherflux has been added as a panelist.   Original Entry: Space News will hold a webinar on August 14, 2025 from 1:00-2:00 pm ET to discuss "Space Based Solar Power." More information and registration instructions are on the event's website, which says: As global energy demands grow space-based solar …

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The NSF-NASA-DOE Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee (AAAC) will meet virtually on August 15, 2025 from 10:00 am - 6:00 pm ET. More information is in the Federal Register notice, which is reproduced below: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. …

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Update, August 13:  The meeting has been rescheduled for August 19, 2025 from 10:00 am-5:30 pm ET.  The agenda is posted.  Pre-registration is required to get the link to the virtual meeting. Update, June 1:  The website says the meeting has been postponed at NASA's request. A new date is TBD but will be no …

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Update, August 18:  Participants are: Heidi Parris, associate program scientist, NASA’s International Space Station Program Research Office Michael Roberts, chief scientific officer, International Space Station National Laboratory James Yoo, assistant director, Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine Tony James, chief architect for science and space, Red Hat Abba Zubair, medical director and scientist, Mayo Clinic …

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will hold a half-day workshop on August 20, 2025 from 8:30 am-12:30 pm ET to discuss "Operationalizing very Low Earth Orbit" (vLEO), which is below 400 km.  It is part of the Academies work on "Transformative Science & Technology for the Department of Defense." The workshop will …

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The Maryland Space Business Roundtable (MSBR) will hold its next luncheon on August 20, 2025 at Martin's Crosswinds in Greenbelt, MD from 11:30 am-1:00 pm ET. The speaker is James "J.J." Shaw, Senior Business Development Lead – Intelligence Community for Amazon’s Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS). More information is on the event's website.

Update, August 20:  The agenda as posted on the YouTube site today is:   Update, August 18:  According to today's emailed notice, the link to watch the update is  https://www.youtube.com/live/i4xyu-p53xI and this is how to ask questions: How to Submit a Question If you would like submit a question before or during the NASA Astrobiology …

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The NASA and JAXA crew members from Crew-10 will participate in a news conference at Johnson Space Center on August 20, 2025 at 4:15 pm ET to discuss their 5-month mission aboard the ISS. The crew splashed down on August 9. Participants are: Anne McClain, Commander (NASA) Nichole Ayers, Pilot (NASA) Takuya Onishi, mission specialist …

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NOAA will hold a virtual media briefing on August 21, 2025 from 11:00 am-12:00 pm ET to preview the upcoming launch of the Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) observatory.  The launch is scheduled for September 2025. The date was not announced as of August 15, 2025. More information about the webinar and the registration …

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Update, August 20:  SpaceX's website says the launch time on August 21 is 11:50 pm ET (August 22, 3:50 am UTC). SpaceX will webcast the launch starting about 20 minutes before liftoff. Update, August 14:  X-37 is still on track for launch on August 21. Teams encapsulated the X-37B ahead of next week’s Falcon 9 …

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NASA and SpaceX will hold a virtual pre-launch media briefing for the SpaceX-33 (SpX-33) cargo launch to the International Space Station on August 22, 2025 at 11:30 am ET. The launch is scheduled for August 24 at 2:45 am ET. Participants in the August 22 briefing are: Bill Spetch, operations integration manager, NASA’s International Space …

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Update, August 18:  Launch coverage begins August 24 at 2:25 am ET on NASA+, Netflix, and Amazon Prime.  If launch takes place as planned, SpX-33 will dock with the ISS on August 25 at 7:30 am ET (NASA coverage begins 6:00 am ET on the same media outlets). Update, August 14:  NASA says the launch date has …

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After a successful launch on August 24 at 2:45 am ET, SpaceX's 33rd cargo ship, SpaceX-33 or SpX-33, will dock with the International Space Station about 7:30 am on August 25, 2025.  Coverage of the arrival and docking begins at 6:00 am ET on NASA+, Netflix, and Amazon Prime.

Spaceport Norway will hold the Andøya Satellite Summit 2025 - Arctic² from August 25-27, 2025 at Fyrvika in the town of Andenes near Norway's Andøya spaceport on the island of Andøya. More information is on the event's website, which says: Arctic² is where the evolving space ecosystem meets in the High North. For three days …

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The Panel on Human and Biological Science of the Committee on Key Non-Polar Destinations Across the Moon to Address Decadal-Level Science Objectives with Human Explorers of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, will meet August 25-27, 2025 at the National Academy of Sciences building, 2101 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington DC. Some sessions are …

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