SRR/PTMSS and CIM Meetings in USA, Canada Look Toward Resource Identification, Extraction, Ownership

The 9th Joint Space Resources Roundtable / Planetary and Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (SRR / PTMSS) is being held June 12-15 in Golden, Colorado with the Lunar Polar Prospecting Workshop. More than 100 space professionals, natural resources industry personnel, financial and legal experts, policy analysts, and entrepreneurs will discuss space manufacturing, power systems, transportation, property rights, and ISRU on Moon, Mars, asteroids, and other celestial bodies. SRR / PTMSS speakers include (L-R) Angel Abbud-Madrid, Dale Boucher, Stephen Mackwell, Melissa Sampson, Jim Keravala, Allison Zuniga, Robert Zubrin and Clive Neal. The Lunar Polar Prospecting Workshop, June 14-15 sponsored by SRR, LEAG and ULA, will develop a plan to characterize distribution, concentration, quantity, and properties of lunar polar ice to design extraction and processing systems. The recommended results will be provided to space agencies and commercial companies. On June 16-21, the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) is hosting Resources for Future Generations 2018 in Vancouver, Canada. It will feature more than 45 plenary & keynote addresses and 1,200 oral presentations on topics such as future of energy, resource ownership rights, Earth through time, water and mineral extraction. Canada is one of the largest mining nations in the world, producing more than 60 minerals and metals. Canadian Space Agency, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, and other innovative companies are developing technologies to monitor, measure and extract resources in / from Space. (Credits: SRR / PTMSS, LEAG, NASA, ULA, NSS ISDC, CIM, Mining Association of Canada, Deep Space Industries)

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Space Situational Awareness Workshop and Bubbles Big & Small Conference in Bengaluru, India Focuses on International Cooperation

Secure World Foundation and National Institute for Advanced Studies to host 2-day Space Situational Awareness: Strategic Challenges for India at JRD Tata Auditorium in Bengaluru June 14-15. Experts from around the world will gather to discuss government and commercial space economy, programs, and data sharing initiatives. Other topics include trends and capabilities in space domain, globalization of technology, commercial growth, and strategic challenges. Over 22,000 and increasing human-made objects are tracked in Earth orbit, including ~300 operational satellites in LEO and GEO, which makes space situational awareness a high priority to prevent collisions amid growing number of countries and commercial enterprises set on space exploration. ISRO Chairman K. Sivan is on the advisory committee while P. Sreekumar of IIA and Brian Weeden of SWF are on the organizing committee. The Indian Institute of Science Department of Physics and Raman Research Institute is hosting Bubbles Big & Small: From Supernovae & the Fermi Bubble to the Circumgalactic Medium conference June 11-14. With focus on observational developments, models, and theoretical understanding of circumgalactic medium. Discussions include black holes, interstellar and intergalactic medium, star development, and galaxy formation in addition to 5 poster participants. (L-R) Andrew Fox of Space Telescope Science Institute, Norman Murray of University of Toronto, Smita Mathur of Ohio State University, and Roland Crocker of Australian National University are among 28 scheduled speakers from ~10 countries. (Image Credits: SWF, NIAS, ISRO, IISci, Times of India, NASA, STSI, University of Toronto, Ohio State University, Australian National University)

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Jun 11 — JAXA, Launch H-2A / IGS Radar 6, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan: JAXA H-2A rocket to launch Information Gathering Satellite with a radar reconnaissance payload for Japan government.

Jun 11 — Secure World Foundation, Washington DC: Space Traffic Management and Enabling Sustainable Commercial Development of Space; 11:30-13:30.

Jun 11-14 — Indian Institute of Science, Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, India: Conference: Bubbles Big and Small – From Supernovae, Fermi Bubbles to the Circumgalactic Medium.

Jun 11-15 — IPP Organizing Committee, NASA, ESA, Denver CO: 15th Annual International Planetary Probe Workshop (IPPW-15); preceded by Jun 9-10 short course on “Small Satellites: An Emerging Paradigm for Bold Planetary Exploration”.

Jun 11-15 — University of Copenhagen, Cosmic Dawn Center, European Union Horizon 2020 Programme, Copenhagen, Denmark: Conference: Cosmic Dust – Origin, Applications & Implications.

Jun 11 – Jul 6 — Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics, Munich, Germany: Program: The Extragalactic Distance Scale in the Gaia Era.

Jun 11 — Moon: 8.8° SSE of Pleiades, 22:00.

Jun 11 — Amor Asteroid 2018 EJ4: Near-Earth Flyby (0.015 AU)

Jun 11 — Amor Asteroid 2015 DP155: Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU)

Jun 11 — Apollo Asteroid 2008 LA: Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU)

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May 29 – Aug 3 — Lunar and Planetary Society, NASA SSERVI, Center for Lunar Science and Exploration, Houston TX: 2018 Exploration Science Summer Intern Program; students to be involved in activities that support missions to the Moon that utilize Orion crew vehicle, Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, and robotic assets on lunar surface.