The Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) will hold a hearing on April 26, 2023 at 2:00 pm ET in 2212 Rayburn House Office Building on the FY2024 budget request for national security space programs. The hearing will be webcast. Witnesses are: The Honorable Dr. John Plumb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for …

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The Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee will hold a hearing on April 26, 2023 at 2:30 pm ET in 192 Dirksen Senate Office Building on the FY2024 budget request for the Department of Commerce, which includes NOAA and its Office of Space Commerce. The hearing will be livestreamed. Secretary of Commerce Gina …

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The Space Transportation Association (STA) will hold an event on Capitol Hill on April 26, 2023 from 5:00-7:00 pm ET with Laurie Leshin, Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, providing an update on JPL programs including Europa Clipper. STA events are by invitation only.

Northrop Grumman will hold its 1Q2023 financial results telecon on April 27, 2023 at 9:00 am ET. The telecon will be livestreamed on the company's website. Participants are: Kathy Warden, chair, chief executive officer and president, and Dave Keffer, chief financial officer

The Washington Space Business Roundtable (WSBR) will hold a luncheon on April 27, 2023 from 12:00-2:00 pm ET at the Holiday Inn Washington Capitol-National Mall, 550 C Street, SW, Washington, DC. Networking begins at 12:00 pm ET with lunch served at 12:20 pm ET. The speaker is Pam Melroy, NASA Deputy Administrator. More information and …

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The House Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing on April 27, 2023 at 12:30 pm ET in 2118 Rayburn House Office Building on the FY2024 budget request for the Department of the Air Force, which includes the U.S Air Force and the U.S. Space Force. The hearing will be webcast. Witnesses are: The Honorable …

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The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on NASA's FY2024 budget request on April 27, 2023 at 1:00 pm ET in 2318 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing will be livestreamed on the committee's website.  NASA TV will also broadcast the hearing. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is the sole witness.

The Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security will hold a webinar on April 27, 2023 from 2:00-3:30 pm ET on "Harnessing Allied Space Capabilities." Participants include: Keynote address:  John Plumb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy, DOD Panel: Nicholas Eftimiades, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Forward Defense, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council; Professor, Homeland Security …

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AIAA will hold a virtual commencement address on April 27, 2023 from 3:00-4:00 pm ET. The speaker is former astronaut and former NFL player Leland Melvin who will talk about "Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances." More information and registration instructions are on the event's website.

The Space Tourism Society will hold the Space Tourism Conference 2023 on April 28, 2023 at the Renaissance Hotel LAX, Los Angeles, CA from 8:00 am -9:00 pm PACIFIC Time. More informaton is on the event's website, which says: "Space Tourism Conference (STC) presents the cross-section of industries comprising space tourism: aerospace, media, entertainment, architecture, …

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NASA astronaut Steve Bowen and United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi will make a spacewalk at the International Space Station on April 28, 2023. Alneyadi will become the first person from the UAE and the first Arab to make a spacewalk. NASA TV coverage of the approximately 6.5 hour spacewalk begins at 7:45 am ET. …

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George Washington University's Space Policy Institute (SPI) and the RAND Corporation will hold an event marking the 40th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Intiative, SDI, that envisioned Space Based Lasers and other space-based weapons as a defense against Soviet ICBMs. "The Strategic Defense Initiative in Retrospect: The Past, Present and Future of Missile …

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NASA and Rocket Lab will hold a media telecon on April 28, 2023 at 4:00 pm ET to preview the launch of NASA TROPICS satellites.  The telecon will be livestreamed on NASA Live. Two Rocket Lab Electron rockets will launch two satellites each from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. The first launch …

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The 2023 Inter-Planetary Small Satellite Conference will take place at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA from May 1-2, 2023. The website says the event is sold-out for in-person attendance, but virtual attendance is still possible. More information is on the event's website, which says: This conference is organized by students, alumni, and …

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NASA's Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) will meet at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, MD and virtually from May 2-3, 2023. More information is on the OPAG website.

Space Florida will convene the 2023 State of the Space Industrial Base Workshop--Commercial Launch Sector Working Group at Exploration Park, Florida (near Cape Canaveral) from May 2-3, 2023. The workshop is part of the annual State of the Space Industrial Base conference series sponsored by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), U.S. Space Force, the Air …

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Space Tech Expo|USA will take place in Long Beach, CA from May 2-4, 2023.  May 2 is an invitation-only preview. More information is on the event's website, which says:   Space Tech Expo USA is returning to Long Beach, CA for its 11th edition. North America’s premier exhibition and conference is your one-stop-shop to discover the …

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The 2023 Geospatial World Forum will take place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from May 2-5, 2023. The theme is "Geospatial Caravan: Embracing One and All." More information is on the event's website.

The Maldives Space Research Organisation will hold the Space for Island Nations Conference 2023 from May 2-5, 2023 on South Malé Atoll, Maldives. The website says "It is the first ever space conference focused on Island Nations and the Maldives as a host country." The agenda and other information is on that website.  Times on …

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The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) will hold a hearing on May 2, 2023 at 9:30 am ET in SD-G50 Dirksen Senate Office Building on the FY2024 budget request for the Department of the Air Force, which includes the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Space Force. The hearing will be webcast on the committee's …

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