Space Month 2017 America Opens with Canada Day July 1

Canada continues to contribute very significantly to Space Age evolution with informative science, innovative technology and independent perspectives. The young and progressive government of Justin Trudeau appointed Navdeep Bains Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development who has in turn secured additional funding of US$61M for new space projects and is revamping national space policy due out June 2017. Bains says “The technologies that are designed for space today can one day be applied to the everyday lives of Canadians. That means an investment in today’s space sector is an investment in a higher standard of living tomorrow”. The Canada space sector generates US$4.1B in revenue (2014). Space Month, commemorating Apollo 11 July 20 1969 first human landing on another world, is a time to think bigger, push harder, dream higher, chart courses for Solar System Complete exploration in the 21st Century. On July 18-20 at Ames Research Center in Moffett Field CA the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) is hosting the 4th annual NASA Exploration Science Forum. Moon Day 2017 is July 22 at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas TX. A rising Lunar tide now noted by many observers across the space community and growing calls for International Human Moon Missions may culminate with women and men on the Moon continuously, establishing human multi world civilization. There is great opportunity and promise in this effort to reclaim the greatest advance in American / Human history and honor the accomplishments of Apollo almost 50 years on. (Image Credit: CSA, NASA)

MONDAY

Jun 26 — Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands: TU Delft Starship Team (DSTART) Symposium; to share recent progress on interstellar multidisciplinary effort involving astrophysics, biotechnology, computer simulation, chemistry, art.

2017 Asteroid Day: New Initiatives Focus on Detection, Deflection, Resources

Global Asteroid Day on June 30 will see more than 700 events in 190 countries with a 24-hour broadcast based out of Luxembourg featuring Rusty Schweickart, Ed Lu, Nicole Stott, Brian Cox, Michel Tognini, Jean-François Clervoy, Dorin Prunariu, and Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg Etienne Schneider. Sanctioned by the United Nations in 2016, Asteroid Day raises awareness about NEAs, their role in our solar system, and the need to track asteroids to protect Earth and facilitate future exploration. There are over 16,200 known NEAs of which 7,672 are larger than 140 m and 875 are larger than 1 km; 1,800 NEAs (158 larger than 1 km) are classified as Potentially Hazardous Asteroids – their Earth minimum orbit intersection distance (MOID) of less than 0.05 AU. The government of Luxembourg is planning up to €300M investment in asteroid detection and resource mining, and is partnering with Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries of USA, ispace of Tokyo and OHB Venture Capital of Germany. Luxembourg is also in talks with representatives from China, Portugal, Russia and UAE to coordinate Worldwide Asteroid research, and hopes discussions will lead to multilateral agreements and prompt the UN to update the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. Various Asteroid efforts include Pan-STARRS in Hawai’i, NASA NEOWISE in LEO, NELIOTA in Greece, Spacewatch in Arizona, the IAU Minor Planet Center, NEOshield-2 in Europe, ESA Space Situational Awareness Program, NASA Near Earth Object Program, as well as private venture B612. (Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, BBC, DSI, Planetary Resources; Also Pictured, Asteroid Day Founders: Grig Richters, Danica Remy, Brian May)

Jun 26-29 — Lockheed Martin Corp., NASA, USAF, FAA, DARPA, Indian Wells CA: 2017 National Space & Missile Materials Symposium & Commercial and Government Responsive Access to Space Technology Exchange.

Jun 26-30 — European Astronomical Society, Prague, Czech Republic: European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS) 2017.

Jun 26 – Jul 2 — Curtin University, Perth Convention Bureau, NASA SSERVI, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia: Workshop on Shock Metamorphism in Terrestrial and Extra-Terrestrial Rocks.

Jun 26 – Jul 21 — Other Worlds Laboratory at University of California – Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz CA: 2017 Exoplanet Summer Program.

Jun 26 – Aug 25 — International Space University, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland: ISU 30th Space Studies Program (SSP 2017).

Jun 26 — Moon: 3.2° S of Beehive Cluster, 01:18.

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Jun 10 – Sep 10 — EuroChem, TransTelekom, DHL, General Electric, Samsung, Siemens, Caspian Pipeline Consortium, Astana, Kazakhstan: Expo 2017 Astana: Future Energy.

Jun 30 – Jul 29 — Space Media Ventures, National Space Society, Online: Kickstarter Campaign: Space Odyssey Game; presented by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, for people of all ages to experience new Worlds and add to them as real science & their collective imagination allows.

Jun 15 – Aug 15 — International Space Elevator Consortium, Online: ISEC 2017 Summer Internship Program; six interns to perform home-based / online intern studies with ISEC.

Jun 17 – Aug 19 — Singularity University, Moffett Field CA: SU 2017 Global Solutions Program; for students to develop Moonshot innovations addressing humanity’s grand challenges; Climate Change is overarching theme for 2017.