2009 Retrospective 

NewSpace in 2009: The Ups and Downs in Entrepreneurial Spaceflight

(a HobbySpace/RLVNews special report by Clark Lindsey)

• Dec 7: Public roll-out of SpaceShipTwo, Mojave, CA.
• Nov 18-19: NASA Centennial Challenges' Astronaut Glove Challenge, US Astronaut Hall of Fame, Kennedy Space Center, FL.
• Nov 12-15: SEDS SpaceVision 2009 Conference, Tucson, AZ.
• Oct 28-29: FAA AST COMSTAC Mtgs (Day 1-WG meetings, Day 2-Full Committee), Washington, DC.
• Oct 26-29: 3rd DoD/NASA Commercial & Government Responsive Access to Space Technology Exchange (CRASTE), Dayton, OH. (This event is ITAR-restricted.)
• Oct 21-22: 2009 Int’l Symposium for Personal & Commercial Spaceflight, Las Cruces, NM.
• Oct 17-18: NASA/CSEWI Regolith Excavation Centennial Challenges Event, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.
• Oct 12-16: 60th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Daejeon, South Korea.
• Sep 30: Space Investment Summit #7, Boston, MA.
• Sep 23: Congressional Black Caucus Space Entrepreneurship Panel (not the real name, but I'll post it when I get it), Washington, DC.
• Sep 14-17: AIAA SPACE 2009 Conference & Exposition, Pasadena, CA.
• TBD: NASA/Spaceward Foundation Power Beaming Centennial Challenges Event, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, CA.
• Aug 19-20: National Research Council NASA's Suborbital Research Capabilities meeting, Boulder, CO.
• Aug 18: Commercial Spaceflight Federation Suborbital Applications Research Group meeting, Boulder, CO.
• Aug 14: Tether Strength Competition (a NASA Centennial Challenges competition) in conjunction with the Space Elevator Conference, Redmond, WA.
• Aug 13: AIA Panel Event: "What’s next for the International Space Station?", Washington, DC.
• Aug 10–13: 23rd AIAA/USU Annual Conference on Small Satellites, Utah State University, Logan, UT.
• Aug 2-5: 45th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Denver, CO.
• July 28: The Marshall Institute's A Day Without Space: Economic Security Ramifications, Washington, DC.
• July 27: AIAA Space: Stimulating Economic Growth Today and Tomorrow, Washington, DC.
• July 17-20: Space Frontier Foundation NewSpace 2009 Conference, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.
• July 6-9: 3rd European Conference for Aero-Space Sciences (EUCASS), Versailles, France.
• June 30: Royal Aeronautical Society's Space Tourism: The Vision Becomes Reality Conference,  No.4 Hamilton Place, London, UK.
• June 18: AIAA Innovations in Orbit: An Exploration of Commercial Crew and Cargo Transportation, Washington, DC.
• June 16: Marshall Institute's Innovation in Aerospace panel, Washington, DC.
• June 15-21: 2009 Paris Air Show, Le Bourget Airfield, Paris, France.
• June 4: Space Foundation's Space Business Forum, New York, NY.
• May 28-31: Nat'l Space Society (NSS) Int'l Space Development Conference (ISDC), Orlando, FL.
• May 27: Space Investment Summit #6, Orlando, FL.
• May 20-21: FAA AST COMSTAC Mtgs (Day 1-RLVWG, Day 2-Full), Washington, DC.
• May 13: "One Giant Leap: Space Exploration and the New Pioneers" panel discussion at the Boston Museum of Science, Boston, MA.
• May 3: PSF's 2nd Emerging Commercial Suborbital Science Workshop, Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites, Los Angeles, CA.
• Apr 29: Entrepreneurial Space and Export Control: Red Tape in the Final Frontier, Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC.
• Apr 22: Investing in Aerospace Entrepreneurship, MIT Enterprise Forum, New York, NY.
• Apr 2-4: Space Access Society Conference, Phoenix, AZ.
• March 30-April 2: Space Foundation's 25th National Space Symposium, Colorado Springs, CO.
• March 17-18: AIAA Congressional Visits Day, Washington, D.C.
• March 13: Half-Day Symposium on The Space Economy, GMU, Phillips & Co., USCC, Washington, DC.
• Feb 24-26: NSSO/AFSFC Small Unit Space Transport and Insertion (SUSTAIN) Technology Forum, Lackland AFB, San Antonio, TX.
• Feb 22-24: Space Exploration Alliance's Legislative Blitz, Washington, D.C.
• Feb 5-6: FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference, Marriott Crystal Gateway, Arlington, VA.
• Feb 4: FAA AST Experimental Permit Workshop, FAA HQ (?), Washington, DC.
• Jan 8: AIAA Commercial Space Group Cape Canaveral Commercial Space Tour with Space Florida, Cape Canaveral, FL.
• Jan 5-8: 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL.

2009 (starts here, continues upward)