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UN COPUOS Legal Subcommittee (LSC) Meeting

Vienna, Austria

65th session of the UN COPUOS Legal Subcommittee (LSC). Informal meetings and consultations are expected to take place on April 13-14 and April 23-24, surrounding the main session dates. Key lunar issues to be addressed include resources and information-sharing. Sessions focus is on international space governance, including space safety, sustainability, […]

Launch Vehicle Avionics Systems Design and Applications – Online Short Course

Online

George N. Andrew, with 46+ years of experience relating to launch vehicle, spacecraft / instrument avionics architecture, design, manufacturing, integration / testing / program management, convenes this course Tuesdays / Thursdays through April 30 at 13:00–15:30 EDT | 17:00-19:30 UTC | 09:00-11:30 HST (6 Classes, 15 Total Hours). All sessions […]

US$495 – US$1095

24th IAA Humans In Space Symposium

Montecatini, Italy

A platform for a fruitful discussion of fundamental problems and practical issues, exchange of research results and ideas in space biology and medicine, including: – Analogue Environments – Isolation – Astrobiology – Artificial Intelligence – Cardiovascular and Pulmonary – Challenges of Future Spaceflights – Circadian Rhythm – Commercial Spaceflight / […]

€100 – €700

BeyondHubble: Revisiting the Hubble Sequence Across Cosmic Time

Cambridge, United Kingdom

A meeting revisiting the Hubble Sequence 100 years on: Linking the morphological evolution of galaxies across cosmic time. Invited Speakers: Angela Adamo (Stockholm University) Oscar Agertz (Lund University) Michele Cappellari (University of Oxford) Andrei Kravtsov (University of Chicago) Sharon Meidt (Ghent University) Lamiya Mowla (Wellesley College) Vadim Semenov (CfA) Adrianne Slyz (University of Oxford) Takafumi Tsukui (ANU) […]

Launch Falcon 9 / Starlink Group 17-14

SLC-4E (~35°N), Vandenberg SFB CA, USA

Launch window open 13:00-17:00 PDT | 16:00-20:00 HST for 25 internet satellites. Booster B1100 planned to land on ASDS OCISLY after this 5th flight. This is the booster with special "100" painted logo.

Launch HASTE / Bubbles

SLC-2, Wallops Flight Facility WA, ~38°N, USA

Launch window 20:00 Apr 21 - 01:00 Apr 22 EDT | 14:00-19:00 HST for sub-orbital Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) test program of Rocket Lab, using its electric-pump-fed engines.

AIAA Los Angeles Section Town Hall Meeting: James Webb Space Telescope

Lomita CA, USA

Origins, Development, Operation and Lessons Learned from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope with Jonathan Arenberg, Northrop Grumman Fellow and Chief Mission Architect for Science and Robotic Exploration, Fellow of the International Optics and Photonics Society, SPIE, and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. In-person at 17:30 PDT at Lomita Library (Don […]

Lyrids Meteor Shower Peak

Worldwide

Best seen from Northern Hemisphere, with a lower hourly rate in the Southern Hemisphere, Lyrids seem to stream from the Constellation Lyra. They actually derive from the debris trail of Comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher, which has a period of 415 years. Can be "fireball" bright but usually lack persistent trains, […]