The 26th World Mining Congress will take place in Brisbane, Australia from June 26-29, 2023. The theme is New Mining Frontiers. More information is on the event's website and the website of the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium.

NASA will hold a media telecon on June 26, 2023 at 1:00 pm ET to answer questions about logistics for media planning to cover the return of samples from the asteroid Bennu by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The sample return canister will land near the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah on September 24, 2023. Audio of …

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The Mitchell Institute will hold a virtual event on June 26, 2023 at 3:00 pm ET to release a new report: "Building U.S. Space Force Counterspace Capabilities: An Imperative for America's Defense," by Charles Galbreath, Senior Resident Fellow for Space Studies, Mitchell Institute. Join us for the rollout of our paper: Building U.S. Space Force …

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Update, June 28:  Both workshops were invitation only and took place in June 2023 in London and in the Washington, DC area. Update, June 25: NASA originally said this first feedback workshop would take place in the Washington, DC area, with a subsequent workshop with international organizations in July. Yesterday, however, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam …

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The agenda is now posted.   NASA's Astrophysics Advisory Committee will meet virtually from June 27-28, 2023. The meeting on June 27 is 9:00 am-5:00 pm ET and on June 28 is 9:00 am - 4:00 pm ET. More information is in the Federal Register notice, which is reproduced below. SUMMARY: In accordance with the …

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The 11th European Lunar Symposium will take place in-person in Padua, Italy from June 27-29, 2023. More information is on the event's website.

The second Near-Earth Object Workshop to Assess Reconnaissance for Planetary defense, NEO WARP 2, will take place June 28-30, 2023 at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, MD. More information is on the event's website, which says: The Near-Earth Object Workshops to Assess Reconnaissance for Planetary defense (NEO WARP) series focuses on the …

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The American Instititue of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will hold a webinar, presented by Lockheed Martin, on June 28, 2023 from 1:00-2:00 pm ET on "Space 2050: Our Future Shaped by Today's Space Technology Advances." More information is on the event's website. Participants are:  

The National Security Space Association (NSSA) will hold the NSSA Space Capital Forum at Intelsat's offices in McLean, VA (7800 Tysons One Place) on June 28, 2023 from 2:00-8:00 pm ET. More information is on the event's registration website. The website lists the time as 3:00-8:00 pm ET, but the emailed announcement says 2:00-8:00 pm …

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The ESA Council will hold its 316th meeting in Stockholm, Sweden from June 28-29, 2023. On June 29 from 14:00-15:00 Central European Summer Time (8:00-9:00 am EDT), ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Council Chair Anna Rathsman (Sweden) will hold a press conference at Hotel Hasselbacken (Hazelius Hall), Hazeliusbacken 20, 115 21 Stockholm, SW, …

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George Washington University's Space Policy Institite (SPI) and the Aerospace Corporation's Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS) will hold a discussion on June 29, 2023 from 10:00 am-1:30 pm ET at SPI's offices at 1957 E Street, NW, Washington, DC and online via Zoom. The topic is "Public-Private Synergy in the Space Sector: Risks …

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Update, June 26:  Virgin Galactic announced this morning they are targeting June 29 for the this launch. Their livestream will begin at 9:00 am MOUNTAIN Time (11:00 am EDT).  The passengers are: Original Entry: Virgin Galactic plans to launch its first commercial flight of SpaceShipTwo during a four-day window, June 27-30, 2023, from Spaceport America …

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SpaceX's 28th cargo mission to the International Space Station, SpX-28, will undock at 12:05 pm ET on June 29, 2023. NASA TV coverage of undocking begins at 11:45 am ET.  NASA TV does not cover reentry or splashdown of these SpaceX missions. SpX-28 was launched on June 5, 2023.

The United Nations designated June 30 as International Asteroid Day in 2016 in order to “observe each year at the international level the anniversary of the Tunguska impact over Siberia, Russian Federation, on 30 June 1908, and to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard.” The decision was “was made based on a proposal by the Association …

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Update: The launch time has been refined by 1 minute. It is now 11:12 am ET. Original Entry: The European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid cosmology mission that will search for clues about dark energy and dark matter -- which together comprise 95% of the universe, but otherwise are unknown -- will launch on a SpaceX …

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SpaceTide 2023 will take place from July 4-6, 2023 in Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan and on YouTube. The theme is: "The Rise of the Space Economy." More information is on the event's website, which says: The President of JAXA is one of the speakers. Join us for @SpaceTide_Conf (July 4-6, Tokyo & online)! More than 80 …

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July 4, 2023 is a federal holiday, Independence Day, and federal government offices will be closed. Independence Day celebrates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress in 1776 that declared the independence of the 13 colonies from Great Britain, creating the United States of America (read the text).

The 2023 European Space Forum will take place July 5-6, 2023 in Brussels, Belgium. The theme is: "Strength, Security, Resilience -- Protecting Europe's Interests In and Through Space." More information is on the event's website.

Update, July 5: Arianespace is providing live coverage on YouTube. Update, July 4:  The launch has been postponed at least one day due to unfavorable upper level winds. They will try again tomorrow, July 5. The launch window is open 6:00-7:05 pm EDT (7:00-8:05 pm local time in Kourou). Update, June 23: The new launch …

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The Mitchell Institute will hold its next Schriever Spacepower Services webinar on July 6, 2023 at 10:00 am ET.  The guest is Lt. Gen. John Shaw, Deputy Commander of U.S. Space Command. More information is on the event's website.