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Summit To Determine Way Forward For Canada Space Industry, Discuss Canada Participation In Moon, Planetary Exploration

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Canadian Space Society and Canadian Space Commerce Association present the '2008 Canadian Space Summit' on Nov 21-23 in Montreal, Quebec. The event comes at a crucial time for Canada's space industry, which has been described as being in a state of crisis lately, highlighted by the failed sale of major Canada aerospace company MDA. Accordingly, the theme for this year's annual summit will be, 'What's Next for the Canadian Space Industry?' CSA has built a strong reputation over the past 2 decades through its robust astronaut core and knack for robotics, particularly the Canadarm and Canadarm2 systems currently aboard the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station (ISS), respectively. These strengths were reflected in the recent appointment of chief Canada astronaut Steve MacLean (BL) as CSA President. MacLean was the 1st Canadian to operate the MDA-built Canadarm2 aboard the ISS, and has flown on 2 Shuttle flights. The summit will gather space advocates, aerospace executives, engineers, professors and venture capitalists to discuss the way forward for CSA, including space-related fields such as planetary exploration, astronomy, life sciences and micro-satellites. CSA science chief David Kendall will be the keynote speaker of the summit, while Canada Parliament member and former CSA head Marc Garneau (BR) will deliver the banquet keynote. The Canadian Space Agency will also hold the '6th Canadian Space Exploration Workshop' on Dec 1-3 at CSA headquarters in Saint-Hubert, Quebec. (Credit: CSA, CSS)

Space Experts Gather For 1st Global Space Technology Forum In UAE

International space agency representatives, entrepreneurs, investors, academia and space policy / law experts will gather in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Nov 16-18 for the inaugural 'Global Space Technology Forum.' Themed Space Technology Commercialization for the Future, the event will examine emerging space-related technologies and business plans and provide a networking forum for private and government space professionals. UAE has become a hotbed for commercial space activities recently, including suborbital space tourism and spaceport opportunities with Virgin Galactic, Space Adventures and others. Featured speakers at the forum will include (Top, L-R:) Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall, Surrey Satellite Chair Sir Martin Sweeting, Space Adventures CEO Eric Anderson, XCOR Chief Operating Officer Andrew Nelson, (Bottom, L-R:) Virgin Galactic Commercial Director Stephen Attenborough, International Space University President Michael Simpson, Space Angels Network head Burton Lee, private astronaut Anousheh Ansari and many more. Participants will engage in discussions on international cooperation, Earth observation, space research and policy, and commercial markets and issues. Nick Webb, Director of sponsor Streamline Marketing Group, says, "The UAE is increasing efforts to become a serious aviation and aerospace commercial, technical and services hub ... and we hope that investors and entrepreneurs across the Middle East will be inspired to get involved with this fast growing industry." (Credit: GSTF, et al)
THIS WEEK
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
JANUARY 2009
LEGEND
All times for terrestrial events in local time unless noted.
All times for international terrestrial events in local time unless noted.
All times for space events, and...
All times for international space / astro events in Hawaii Standard Time unless noted. Add 10 hours to obtain UT ('Universal Time;' Greenwich, England).
Weekly Planet Watch – Morning Planets: Saturn (ESE) / Evening Planets: Jupiter (SSW), Venus (SW).
 

MONDAY
Nov 17 — International Space Station, LEO: 10 humans in space today as Endeavour STS-126 crew joins Expedition 18 crew aboard International Space Station; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html.
Nov 17 — Silicon Valley Engineering Council, San Jose CA: 'SVEC Annual Open House;' http://www.svec.org/news/index.html.
Nov 17-18 — NASA Headquarters, Washington DC: '1st Annual NASA Small Business Symposium & Awards Ceremony;' http://acquisition.jpl.nasa.gov/boo/default.htm.
Nov 17-19 — American Astronautical Society, Pasadena CA: 'AAS National Conference and 55th Annual Meeting: Space Science and Exploration in the Next Decade;' http://www.astronautical.org/.
Nov 17-19 — International Academy of Astronautics, Tunis, Tunisia: '1st IAA Regional Mediterranean Conference: Shared Exploitation of Space Applications;' http://iaaweb.org/content/view/171/287/.
Nov 17-20 — Applied Technology Institute, Los Angeles CA: 'Space Mission Structures Course; http://www.aticourses.com/spacecraft_mission_structures.htm.
Nov 17-21 — Royal Observatory of Belgium, European Space Agency, Brussels, Belgium: '5th European Space Weather Week;' http://sidc.oma.be/esww5/.
Nov 17-21 — Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands: 'Fitting the Spectral Energy Distributions of Galaxies;' http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2008/314/info.php3?wsid=314.
Nov 17-21 — Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan: '18th Workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan;' http://theo.phys.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~jgrg18/.
Nov 17-22 — NASA Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Cape Canaveral FL: Astronaut Encounter with Jon McBride; http://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/upcomingEvents.asp.
Nov 17-28 — Canary Institute of Astrophysics, Tenerife, Canary Island, Spain: '20th Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics: Local Group Cosmology;' http://www.iac.es/winschool2008/info.html.
Nov 17 — Mars Phoenix Lander, Red Planet: Spacecraft ceases communications, operations due to seasonal decline in sunshine; Phoenix operated at Mars north pole region for more than 5 months; http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/nov/HQ_08-284_Phoenix_Finishes_Mission.html.
Nov 17 — Leonid Meteor Shower Peak: Leonids generally begin on November 13 and end on November 21, with maximum (about 10 meteors per hour) generally occurring during the night of November 17/18; http://meteorshowersonline.com/leonids.html.
Nov 17 — Moon: 0.87° SW of center of Beehive Cluster; 23:00.
Nov 17 — Asteroid 2008 UT5: Near-Earth Flyby; (0.031 AU).
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Nov 15 — IEEE Computer Society, NASA, Austin TX: 'Super Computing 2008: 20 Years -- Unleashing the Power of High End Computing;' includes NASA exhibit; through Nov 21; http://sc08.supercomputing.org/.
Nov 16 — Global Space Technology Forum, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: 'Global Space Technology Forum: Space Technology Commercialization for the Future;' through Nov 18; http://www.smg-conferences.com/index.php?module=conferencedetails&page=other&conference=3.
TUESDAY
Nov 18 — University of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville AL: 'Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger Recognition Symposium;' http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calendar.html?pid=5190.
Nov 18-20 — European Space Agency / ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands: 'ESA Workshop on Advanced Flexible Telecom Payloads;' http://www.congrex.nl/08c22/.
Nov 18-20 — American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics, Monterey CA: 'AIAA Missile Sciences Conference;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=1.
Nov 18-21 — Paris University, CNES, et al, Paris, France: '2nd International Simbol-X Symposium Focusing on the Hard X-Ray Universe;' http://www.apc.univ-paris7.fr/Simbolx2008/.
WEDNESDAY
Nov 19 — California Space Authority, Los Angeles CA: '2008 SpotBeam Awards Reception and Dinner;' http://www.californiaspaceauthority.org/html/events.html.
Nov 19-21 — Observatory of Paris, CNES, Paris, France: 'Molecules in the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets;' http://www.iap.fr/molecules2008/.
Nov 19 — Cassini Titan Flyby, Saturn Orbit: Spacecraft conducts flyby of moon Titan (T47) to observe the Huygens probe landing site, and to study Titan's atmospheric structure and composition; http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/operations/index.cfm.
Nov 19 — Moon: Last Quarter; 11:32.
Nov 19 — Moon: 2.0° SSW of Regulus; 15:00.
THURSDAY
Nov 20 — NASA, ATK, Promontory UT: 'NASA, ATK conduct 1st full-scale test fire of new launch abort system for Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle; http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/nov/HQ_M08225_ORION_LAS_TEST.html.
Nov 20 — Kayser-Threde, Munich, Germany: Press conference on Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP); http://www.kayser-threde.de/en/press/news_detail.php?id=190&lang=en.
Nov 20-21 — International Academy of Astronautics, Vienna, Austria: '1st IAA/ESPI/SWF Workshop on the Fair and Responsive Use of Space: an International Perspective;' http://iaaweb.org/content/view/171/287/.
Nov 20-22 — Los Alamos National Laboratory, Santa Fe NM: 'Great Surveys Workshop;' http://t8web.lanl.gov/people/salman/grsurveys/.
Nov 20 — Comet C/2008 O3 (Boattini): Closest approach to Earth; (2.041 AU).
FRIDAY
Nov 21 — Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston TX: Seminar with Jon Friedrich of Fordham University; topic TBA; http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi/seminars/.
Nov 21-23 — Canadian Space Agency, Montreal, Canada: '2008 Canadian Space Summit: What's Next for the Canadian Space Agency?' http://www.css.ca/index.php/css-summit.
Nov 21 — Moon: 5.0° SSW of Saturn; 04:00.
Nov 21 — Asteroid 4238 Audrey: Closest approach to Earth; (1.525 AU).
SATURDAY
Nov 22 — Asteroid 2008 VZ3: Near-Earth Flyby; (0.015 AU); Asteroid 2004 XK3: Near-Earth Flyby; (0.042 AU); Asteroid 85236 (1993 KH): Near-Earth Flyby; (0.099 AU).
SUNDAY
Nov 23-26 — NASA Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Cape Canaveral FL: Astronaut Encounter with Al Worden; http://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/upcomingEvents.asp.
Nov 23 — Cassini OTM-173, Saturn Orbit: Spacecraft conducts Orbital Trim Maneuver #173 today; http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/operations/cassini-calendar-2008.cfm.
Nov 23 — Moon: 2.7° SSW of Spica; 20:00.
Nov 23 — Asteroid 128523 Johnmuir: Closest approach to Earth; (1.077 AU).
 
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