Events of Interest: Week of January 22-27, 2012
The following events may be of interest in the week ahead.
During the Week
The House and Senate both will be in session this week and President Obama will deliver his annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night. The American Meteorological Society (AMS) holds its annual meeting beginning today in New Orleans, LA, with “town hall” sessions on topics related to earth observing satellites on Tuesday and Wednesday. The four-week World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) 2012, convened by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) where the nations of the world meet to allocate spectrum for terrestrial and space uses, begins in Geneva, Switzerland.
Sunday-Thursday, January 22-26
- AMS 2012 annual meeting, New Orleans, LA
Monday, January 23 – Friday, February 17
- World Radiocommunication Conference 2012 (WRC-12), Geneva, Switzerland
Tuesday, January 24
- NASA Media Roundtable with Chief Technologist Mason Peck, Wallops Flight Facility, VA, 11:00 am EST
- AMS Town Hall meeting on strategic plan for the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), New Orleans, LA, 12:15 pm CST
- AMS Town Hall meeting on Impending Earth Observations Network Gap, New Orleans, LA, 12:15 pm CST
- FAA Commercial Space Trans Adv Cmte (COMSTAC) Risk Management Working Group, teleconference,1:30 pm EST
- AMS Town Hall meeting on NASA’s Earth Science Division, New Orleans, LA, 6:00 pm CST
- President Obama’s State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress, Washington, DC, 9:00 pm EST
Wednesday, January 25
- AMS Town Hall meeting on NASA’s Progress and Plans for Enabling Programs, New Orleans, LA, 12:15 pm CST
- Scheduled launch of Progress cargo spacecraft to the ISS, 6:06 pm EST (5:06 pm CST, 5:06 am January 26 local time at the launch site in Kazakhstan), watch on NASA TV
Friday, January 27
- NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), NASA Headquarters, Room 9H40, Washington, DC, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
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