37th Space Symposium in CO to include 10,000 Participants, 15 Heads of Space Agencies

The Space Foundation 37th Space Symposium is being held in-person and online April 4-7 at Colorado Springs, perhaps seeing up to 10,000 space professionals and decision makers from 25+ countries. On April 5, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy will give plenary remarks, followed by ‘Artemis and the Industry: Building the Space Economy’ panel discussion with Lauren Smith, James Free, James Reuter, and Thomas Zurbuchen. The 75-minute Heads of Agency Symposium features (L-R) Josef Aschbacher (ESA), Philippe Baptiste (CNES), Paul Bate (UKSA), Lisa Campbell (CSA-ASC), Sang-Ryool Lee (KARI), Walther Pelzer (DLR), Giorgio Saccoccia (ASI), Hiroshi Yamakawa (JAXA), and Pam Melroy (NASA). The Heads of Agency: Nations to Watch has members from Mexican Space Agency, Azercosmos, Portuguese Space Agency, Egyptian Space Agency, Brazilian Space Agency, Australian Space Agency and Romanian Space Agency. Part of the Space Exploration track will see ‘Beyond ISS: Commercial LEO Destinations’ with Axiom, Boeing, Blue Origin, Sierra Space representatives; and ‘Commercial Opportunities in Lunar Exploration’ with Firefly Aerospace, Astrobotic, NG, Redwire, and Swedish Space Corp. IAF Salon Luncheon will have Christian Feichtinger, Joseph Aschbacher, Pascale Ehrenfreund, Davide Petrillo and others. Also ongoing will be a large exhibition center, Space Law 101 event, Space Law Workshop, Space Force / DoD talks, and the Space Generation Fusion Forum 2022 running April 1-4, for international students and young professionals, led by the Space Generation Advisory Council. (Image Credits: SF, SGAC, et al)

MONDAY

☆ Apr 4 — ISS, ~405-km LEO: Expedition 67 crew of 7 to welcome 4-member Axiom-1 private Astronaut crew mid-week; transferring cargo from/to 5 spaceships currently docked: Cygnus NG-17, Progress 79P and 80P, Soyuz MS-21, Crew-3 Dragon.

☆ Apr 4 — Tiangong Space Station, ~370-km LEO: Shenzhou 13 Taikonauts preparing to return to Earth mid-April; continue to work with Tianzhou-3 cargo while Tianzhou-2 set to burn up in Earth atmosphere after successful 6,640-kg cargo transfer.

o Apr 4-6 — International Academy of Astronautics, Madrid, Spain: 3rd IAA Conference Space Situational Awareness (ICSSA).

o = International terrestrial events in local time.

★ = Space events, and… ☆ = International space / astro events in Hawaii Standard Time unless noted. Add 10 hours to obtain UT (‘Universal Time’).

21st Century Hawai’i Astronomy on Display with IfA Open House, Pōwehi Day, ILO-X Moon Camera Naming Contest

Celebrating 50 years of discoveries with UH88 telescope, University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy at Mānoa opens its doors to the public April 10, with Open House hours 11:00-16:00. Astro events to be offered throughout the day include straw rocket building with Hawaii Space Grant Consortium, CubeSat demo with Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory, Lego, sundial and star map building. Bishop Museum will provide a portable planetarium for Astronomer-led shows. April 10 is also Pōwehi Day, the 3rd annual observance since official proclamation by Governor David Ige in 2019, which cites the “long and rich history of naming celestial objects extending back thousands of years” and how “James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and Submillimeter Array atop Mauna Kea have been a critical part of this [Event Horizon Telescope] experiment”. The groundbreaking radio imaging of Messier 87 was the first black hole to be directly observed, while Andrea Ghez of UCLA / Keck Observatory received a Nobel Prize for determining stellar orbits governed by super massive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of our Galaxy. The International Lunar Observatory Association of Kamuela aims to land the first Hawaii-led mission to the Moon, with the science education goal of capturing the first image of the Milky Way Galaxy Center from the lunar surface. Launching this year via SpaceX Falcon 9, landing aboard Intuitive Machines Nova-C, ILO-X instrument suite of dual imagers will be named in part by Hawaii students participating in the ILOA Moon Camera Naming Contest. (Image Credits: IfA, ILOA, IM, Canadensys, EHT, Wikipedia)

● Apr 4-7 — Space Foundation, Colorado Springs CO: 37th Space Symposium.

o Apr 4-8 — ESA, CNES, DLR, Bundeswehr University Munich, Noordwijk, The Netherlands: NAVITEC 2022; open forum for space and terrestrial satellite navigation technology designers, developers, integrators, users, universities and agency representatives.

☆ Apr 4 — Moon: 3.4° SE of Pleiades, 19:00.

☆ Apr 4 — Mars: 0.31° SE of Saturn, 16:00.

☆ Apr 4 — Apollo Asteroid 2022 FG3: Near-Earth Flyby (0.032 AU)

☆ Apr 4 — Apollo Asteroid 2022 EN2: Near-Earth Flyby (0.047 AU)

☆ Apr 4 — Amor Asteroid 2022 FK: Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)

☆ Apr 4 — Apollo Asteroid 2019 GN20: Near-Earth Flyby (0.094 AU)

Continued From…
o Nov 4 – Jun 29 — Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Problems, NASA Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA), Moscow, Russia: Mixed gender, international crew of 6 participating in 8-month space / lunar simulation mission SIRIUS-21 (Scientific International Research In Unique Terrestrial Station).

● Mar 24 – May 26 — International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA Hawai’i), Online / Hawai’i Islands: ILO-X Moon Camera Naming Contest for HI Schools.

● Mar 26 – May 7 — AIAA LA-LV Section, Online: Women in Space Art

o Mar 28 – Apr 8 — United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Vienna, Austria: 61st Session COPUOS Legal Subcommittee Meeting.

● Apr 1-4 — Space Foundation, Hybrid / Colorado Springs CO and Online: Space Generation Fusion Forum 2022.

TUESDAY

☆ NET Apr 5 — Arianespace, Launch Soyuz / Galileo 29 & 30, Sinnamary, French Guiana: Arianespace Soyuz rocket, designed VS28, to launch 2 Galileo satellites for Europe Galileo navigation constellation; Postponed.