The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will host a webinar followed by interactive workshops on June 23, 2020 from 1:00-2:30 pm ET on "Staking Your Claim to the Trillion-Dollar Space Economy." The event begins with a panel discussion from 1:00-1:45 pm ET with Washington Post reporter Chris Davenport, author of The Space Barons: …

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NASA will hold a media briefing on June 24, 2020 at 2:00 pm ET to discuss two spacewalks scheduled for June 26 and July 1 by NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken on the International Space Station. The briefing will also provide an update on Crew Dragon's mission to ISS.  Behnken is part of …

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Space News will hold a webinar on June 24, 2020 at 3:30 pm ET on "Mars Exploration: Blueprint for the Red Planet." Participants are: Jim Watzin, Director–Mars Exploration Program, NASA Headquarters Ken Farley, Project Scientist, Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Richard (Rick) Davis, Jr., Assistant Director for Science and Exploration, NASA Headquarters Leonard …

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NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), will hold a joint teleconference on June 25, 2020 at 9:00 am ET to release a dashboard of satellite data showing impacts on the environment and socioeconomic activity caused by the global response to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Participants are: Thomas Zurbuchen, …

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The Aerospace Corporation will hold the next in its Space Policy Show series on June 25, 2020 at 1:00 pm ET.  The Aerospace Corporation's Jim Vedda and George Pollock will discuss "Cislunar Stewardship: Planning for Sustainability and Cooperation." More information, a registration link, and instructions on how to ask question are on the event's website.

UPDATE; June 25, 3:35 pm ET:  30 minutes after the event was supposed to start, CNAS tweeted that it was postponed due to technical difficulties. Original Entry: The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) will hold a virtual "fireside chat" with Gen. Jay Raymond on June 25, 2020 at 3:00 pm ET.   Raymond is …

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UPDATE, August 14, 2020:  The dinner has been rescheduled for 10 months from now, June 4, 2021. Update, June 24:  The September 25, 2020 date also has been cancelled.  The dinner is postponed to next year. In light of the ongoing COVID-19 virus, we regret to inform you that the Goddard MemoriaMove to Trashl Dinner, …

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Update, June 23:  The Office of Space Commerce says the meeting has been postponed and further information will be posted on its website in due course. Update, May 10:  No new information has been posted about this meeting.  All space-related meetings of which we are aware for months ahead have been cancelled, postponed, or converted …

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The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will hold a webinar on June 29, 2020 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm ET where Jim Reuter, NASA's Associate Administrator for the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD), will discuss STMD efforts to enable future NASA and commercial missions. More information and a registration link are on …

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The National Academies Committee on Space Nuclear Propulsion Technologies will hold its next public meeting on June 29, 2020 from 2:00-3:50 pm ET (revised from 4:30 pm ET).  Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the committee is conducting its study through a series of weekly virtual meetings. More information is on the event’s website. Presentations will be …

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The Space Transportation Association (STA) will hold a telecon with JPL Director Mike Watkins on June 29, 2020 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET. For registration and dial-in info, contact STA's Rich Coleman or Ali Hale at rich@spacetransportation.us  

The United Nations declared June 30 of every year as Asteroid Day.  It is the anniversary of the 1908 "Tunguska event" when an asteroid is thought to have exploded above the ground near Tunguska, Russia and leveled millions of trees across 2200 square kilometers of Siberia. The European Space Agency (ESA) is very involved in …

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NASA's Heliophysics Advisory Committee will meet virtually on June 30-July 1, 2020.  The meeting on June 30 is 11:00 am - 5:00 pm ET and on July 1 is 11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET. The agenda is posted on the committee's website. The meeting is open to the public.  Instructions are in the Federal …

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George Mason University's National Security Institute and The Aerospace Corporation will hold a webinar on June 30, 2020 at 12:30 pm ET on "The Space Enterprise: Why National Security and Commercial Space Efforts Need a Unified Theory of Everything." Speakers are: Joshua Huminski, NSI Visiting Fellow and Director, Mike Rogers Center for Intelligence & Global …

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The full House Armed Services Committee (HASC) will markup the FY2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on July 1, 2020 beginning at 10:00 am ET. Because of the coronavirus, this is a "hybrid" meeting where some members will be in Washington, DC (1100 Longworth House Office Building) and others will participate virtually from home via …

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The National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Advisory Board will meet virtually on July 1, 2020 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm ET. More information is in the Federal Register notice, which is reproduced below. SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, and the President's 2004 U.S. Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and …

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The Brookings Institution will host a conversation with Gen. David Goldfein, outgoing Air Force Chief of Staff, on "Assessing the State of the Air Force" on July 1, 2020 from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm ET.  He will be interviewed by Frank Rose and Michael O'Hanlon, Senior Fellows at Brookings. The event will be held …

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