NewSpace 2010: A Log of the Ups and Downs in Entrepreneurial Spaceflight

(a HobbySpace/RLVNews special report by Clark Lindsey)

Here's the list of upcoming events, listed in reverse chronological order:

• ▲ Dec 7:  Requested launch date of SpaceX's Falcon 9 with Dragon capsule.  
• Dec 3: George C. Marshall Institute event: "Implementing National Space Policy", Washington, DC. NEW!!! 
• Nov 16-17: AAS National Conference “ISS: The Next Decade”, Cape Canaveral, FL.  
• Nov 5-7: SEDS SpaceVision 2010 Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL.
• Oct 30-31: Space Manufacturing 14: Critical Technologies for Space Settlement, Space Studies Institute (SSI) at NASA Ames Conference Center in Mountain View, CA. Registration limited to 200 participants.  
• Oct 25-28: 4th DoD/NASA Commercial & Government Responsive Access to Space Technology Exchange (CRASTE), Ames Research Center, CA. (U.S. citizens or green card holders only.)
• Oct 25-27: AAS Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium, Huntsville, AL.  
• $$ Oct 25: Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) Round 2 RFP released.
• $$ Oct 19: Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) Broad Area Announcement (BAA) awards announced.   
• Oct 18-22: Space Week in New Mexico and 2010 Int’l Symposium for Personal & Commercial Spaceflight, Las Cruces, NM.
• Oct 13-14: AIAA Corporate Member Event - Commercial Human Spaceflight Symposium, Houston, TX.  
• Oct 6-7: FAA AST COMSTAC Meetings (Day 1-RLVWG, Day 2-Full), Washington, DC. 
• Oct 4-10: World Space Week, 
• Sept 27-Oct 1: 61st IAF  International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Prague, the Czech Republic.
• Sept 23: George C. Marshall Institute event: "Hosted Payloads: Implications for U.S. Space Policy and Programs", Washington, DC.
• Sept 16: The Regulation of Suborbital Flights in the European Context, IIASL, Universitat Leiden, Leiden, Germany.
• Sept 16: AIAA Public Policy Panel "Space and the Biological Economy – Driving the Lift", Washington, DC.
• Sept 15: Space Entrepreneurship Forum "What Are The Opportunities For African Americans In The Government's New Space Initiatives?", Washington, DC. 
  
• Sep 14-16: 2010 Annual Meeting Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG), Washington DC. 
• Sep 13-14: NASA Advisory Council; Space Operations and Commercial Space Committee Meeting, Houston, TX.  
•  $$ Sept 8: Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) Broad Area Announcement (BAA) proposals due.  
  
• Aug 30-Sept 2: AIAA SPACE 2010 Conference & Exposition, Anaheim, CA.
• $$ Aug 30: NASA CRuSR Flight Services awards announced, $250K to Masten, $225K to Armadillo.  
  
• Aug 27-28: SpaceUP DC, Funger Hall Auditorium, Room 103, Washington, DC.
• Aug 10: The Silicon Valley Space Business Roundtable proudly presents: NASA CTO Robert Braun - An Investment in Our Future: NASAs Space Technology Program, Santa Clara, CA. 
• $$ Aug 6: Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) Broad Area Announcement (BAA)
  released.  
• July 25-28: AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference, Nashville, TN.
• July 23-25: Space Frontier Foundation NewSpace 2010 Conference, Silicon Valley, CA.
• July 26-Aug 1: EAA AirVenture 2010, Oshkosh, WI.
• July 21: EU-US EU Space Research Conference, Stanford University Faculty Club, Palo Alto, CA.
• July 21: 2nd Commercial Lunar Focus Group, Bldg 555 in NASA Ames Research Park.
• July 19-25: Farnsborough International Air Show, Farnsborough, England.
• June 24: "Opportunities and Challenges in Commercial Space Flight," Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 562, Washington DC.
• $$ June 18-19: CRuSR Flight Services Statement of Work and Request For Quotes released.  
• June 8-11: Toulouse Space Show, Toulouse, France.
• ▲ June 4:  First successful launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to orbit.  
• May 27-31: Nat'l Space Society (NSS) Int'l Space Development Conference (ISDC), Chicago, IL.
• May 26: Space Investment Summit #8, Chicago, IL.
• May 25-26: NASA Exploration Enterprise Workshop, Moody Gardens Hotel, Galveston, TX.
• May 25:  Maryland Space Business Roundtable, "NOAA’s climate service, space commercialization initiatives and future big opportunities for industry" with Mary Kicza, NOAA Assistant Administrator for Satellite and Information Services, New Windsor, MD.
• May 25: The Marshall Institute, "The Future of Space Industrial Base", Washington, DC 
• May 18: Women In Aerospace's Aerospace 2010: Challenges and Opportunities at the Dawn of a New Decade, Hyatt Regency - Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
• May 18-19: FAA AST COMSTAC Mtgs (Day 1-RLVWG, Day 2-Full), Washington, DC.
• May 5: Space Economy Leadership Summit, Stephen F. Foster Hotel, Austin, TX.
• April 26: NASA Advisory Council Commercial Space Committee Meeting, Houston, TX.
• April 25-30: AIAA SpaceOps 2010 Conference, Huntsville, AL.
• April 20-21: Commercial Spaceflight Federation Suborbital Applications Research Group meeting, Washington, D.C.
• April 12-15: Space Foundation's National Space Symposium, Colorado Springs, CO.
• Apr 8-10: Space Access Society Conference, Phoenix, AZ.
• March 30: NASA Advisory Council Commercial Space Committee Meeting, Washington DC.
• Feb 21-23: Space Exploration Alliance's Legislative Blitz, Washington, D.C.
• Feb 18-20: Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC2010), Boulder, CO.
• Feb 16: NASA Advisory Council Commercial Space Committee Meeting, Washington DC.
• Feb 10-11: FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference, Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, VA. [Flier] [Current Agenda]
• Feb 9: NASA Innovative Partnerships Program Commercial Space Update Meeting, Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, VA.
• Feb 9: Public Meeting for the FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation, Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, VA.
• Jan 4-7: 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL.

2010 (starts here, continues upward)