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Welcome to the Space Calendar!
Created in 1994, this Space Calendar covers space-related activities and anniversaries for the coming year. Included are over 5,800 links to related websites. This Calendar is compiled and maintained by Ron Baalke. Please send any updates or corrections to baalke@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov.
Note that launch dates are subject to change at any time. Also, anniversary dates are listed in 5 year increments only.
January 2020
February 2020
, Pensacola, Florida
[Feb 20] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DO1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.037 AU)
[Feb 20] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DS1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.029 AU)
[Feb 19] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DV Near-Earth Flyby (0.027 AU)
[Feb 22] Kuiper Belt Object 420356 Praamzius
At Opposition (42.039 AU)
[Feb 21] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DE2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)
[Feb 19] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DM Near-Earth Flyby (0.014 AU)
[Feb 18] Aten Asteroid 2020 CV2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU)
[Feb 18] Asteroid 2020 DF Near-Earth Flyby (0.009 AU)
[Feb 25] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DY2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU)
[Feb 18] Aten Asteroid 2020 CW2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.041 AU)
[Feb 22] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DO2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.013 AU)
[Feb 19] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DT Near-Earth Flyby (0.011 AU)
[Feb 19] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DB1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.018 AU)
[Feb 18] Asteroid 2020 DH Near-Earth Flyby (0.019 AU)
[Feb 20] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DF1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.030 AU)
[Feb 19] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DU Near-Earth Flyby (0.002 AU)
[Feb 19] Apollo Asteroid 2020 CB3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)
[Feb 20] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DK1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.039 AU)
[Feb 20] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DU1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.08 AU)
[Feb 18] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DL Near-Earth Flyby (0.027 AU)
[Feb 18] Aten Asteroid 2020 DK Near-Earth Flyby (0.032 AU)
[Feb 19] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DE1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU)
[Feb 19] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DD1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.041 AU)
[Feb 22] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DL2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.026 AU)
[Feb 20] Aten Asteroid 2020 DX1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.042 AU)
[Feb 18] Starlink 5 (60)
Falcon 9 Launch, Successful
[Feb 19] Aten Asteroid 2020 DO Near-Earth Flyby (0.027 AU)
[Feb 19] JCSAT-17/
GEO-KOMPSAT-2B
Ariane 5 Launch, Successful
[Feb 19] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DA1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.001 AU)
[Feb 19] Aten Asteroid 2020 DW Near-Earth Flyby (0.002 AU)
[Feb 18] Asteroid 2020 DD Near-Earth Flyby (0.006 AU)
[Feb 18] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DB Near-Earth Flyby (0.010 AU)
[Feb 21] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DF2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.010 AU)
[Feb 22] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DH2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.016 AU)
[Feb 20] XJS C,D,E,F CZ-2D Launch, Successful
[Feb 22] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DJ2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.007 AU)
[Feb 21] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DD2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.010 AU)
[Feb 18] Aten Asteroid 2020 DA Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)
[Feb 18] Apollo Asteroid 2020 CU2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.034 AU)
[Feb 21] Meridian-M
Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat Launch, Successful
[Feb 19] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DZ Near-Earth Flyby (0.004 AU)
[Feb 18] Asteroid 2020 DE Near-Earth Flyby (0.009 AU)
[Feb 18] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DC Near-Earth Flyby (0.015 AU)
[Feb 20] Seminar: New Lanterns to Illuminate (Ultra) Light Dark Matter, Barcelona, Spain
[Feb 22] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DK2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.010 AU)
[Feb 20] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DG1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.035 AU)
[Feb 19] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DR Near-Earth Flyby (0.014 AU)
[Feb 18] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DJ Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU)
[Feb 19] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DC1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)
[Feb 21] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DB2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)
[Feb 20] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DW1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.017 AU)
[Feb 18] Apollo Asteroid 2020 CY2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.029 AU)
[Feb 24] RIP: Katherine Johnson (1918-2020)
[Feb 22] Workshop: Fundamental Physics at the Crossroads, Leiden, The Netherlands
[Feb 22] 2nd Expert Meeting of the Working Group on Marine Geospatial Information, Rostock-Warnemunde, Germany
[Feb 25] Astra Rocket 3.0 Test Launch
[Feb 24] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DT2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.013 AU)
[Feb 19] Lecture: Life on Ice, New York, New York
[Feb 21] Colloquium: Wind-driven Landscape Change on Mars, Tucson, Arizona
[Feb 22] UN-GGIM WG-Disasters Conference 2020, Tokyo, Japan
[Feb 22] Colloquium: The Composition of Interstellar Come 2I/Borisov - Insights into Planet Formation in Other Planetary Systeams, Greenbelt, Maryland
[Feb 24] Colloquium: Massive Scale Pulsar Timing with the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope, Sydney, Australia
[Feb 21] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DZ1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.019 AU)
[Feb 20] Virtual NASA Astrophysics Virtual Town Hall
[Feb 18] Astro2020 Teleconference: Panel on Particle Astrophysics and Gravitation
[Feb 18] Colloquia: Fast Radio Bursts, HIRAX, and CHORD, Ithaca, New York
[Feb 23] Seminar: Geodesic Deviation in Field Space - Flattened Non-Gaussianities and PBH, Barcelona, Spain
[Feb 22] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DM2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.015 AU)
[Feb 25] Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium, Laurel, Maryland
[Feb 20] Apollo Asteroid 2020 DV1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.026 AU)
March 2020
, Santiago, Chile
[Feb 18] Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 6 (TJS 6) CZ-7A Launch
[Feb 22] Xingyun-2 01 & 02 Kuaizhou-1A Launch
[Feb 24] CRS-20/
Bartolomeo/
SPOC/
TechEdSat 10 (TES 10)/
GEROS
Falcon 9 Launch (International Space Station)
[Feb 24] Cygnus CRS-12 (NG-12)
Reenters Earth's Atmosphere
[Feb 18] European School of Antennas: Antennas for Space Applications, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
[Feb 18] Astro2020 Teleconference: Panel on Radio, Millimeter and Submillimeter Observations from the Ground
[Feb 25] Starlink 6 (60)/Vigoride 1 (VR-1)
Falcon 9 Launch
[Feb 25] Astro2020 Teleconference: Panel on Electromagnetic Observations from Space
[Feb 25] Astro2020 Teleconference: Panel on State of the Profession and Societal Impacts
[Feb 25] Teleconference: Astro2020 Decadal Survey Committee
[Feb 18] Colloquia: Exploring the Universe with CCAT-prime - An Update, Ithaca, New York
[Feb 22] Educators Workshop: Exploring Space with the Science of Light, Pasadena, California
[Feb 19] 2nd ESA Workshop on Advanced Manufacturing, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
[Feb 18] 6th Expert Meeting of the Working Group on Geospatial Information, Mexico City, Mexico
[Feb 22] 10th Planetary Science Workshop, Punta del Este, Uruguay
[Feb 21] Workshop: Hot But Habitable, Leiden, The Netherlands
[Feb 19] Apollo Asteroid 2020 CA3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.035 AU)
[Feb 23] Asteroid 2734 Hasek Occults HIP 41782 (6.7 Magnitude Star)
[Feb 18] Kuiper Object 145480 (2005 TB190)
At Opposition (47.240 AU)
[Feb 21] Binary Kuiper Belt Object 385446 Manwe
At Opposition (44.292 AU)
[Feb 18] Conference: The Frontiers of Physics, Natal, Brazil
[Feb 25] International Conference on Astronomy and Space Sciences (ICASS 2020), Dubai, United Arab Emirates
[Feb 24] Asteroid 1574 Meyer Occults HIP 13654 (3.6 Magnitude Star)
[Feb 19] 10th ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Colocation Meeting, Oxford, United Kingdom
[Feb 25] Asteroid 253 Mathilde Occults UCAC4 535-027802 (13.1 Magnitude Star)
[Feb 22] SAOCOM 1B/
SARE-1B 1-4
Falcon 9 Launch
[Feb 22] GSAT-32 GSLV Launch
[Feb 22] Workshop: Where the Star Formation Ends, Leiden, The Netherlands
[Feb 22] Anasis-II Falcon 9 Launch
[Feb 23] Sub-regional Workshop on Integrated Geospatial Information Management, Nuku'alofa, Kingdom of Tonga
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April 2020
[Feb 21] SkySat 16-18 Falcon 9 Launch
[Feb 18] IRN Terascale@Clermont Meeting, Ferrand, France
[Feb 25] International Conference on Astronomy and Space Sciences (ICASS 2020), Athens, Greece
[Feb 22] 5th Titan Through Time Workshop, Boulder, Colorado
[Feb 22] 38th Meeting of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG), Washington DC
[Feb 24] 2nd Expert Meeting of the Working Group on Legal and Policy Frameworks and Policy Frameworks for Geospatial Information Management, Windsor, United Kingdom
[Feb 18] Workshop: Cosmography via Gravitational Wave Sources and Other Observables, Stavanger, Norway
[Feb 23] Asteroid 24 Themis Closest Approach To Earth (1.973 AU)
May 2020
[Feb 18] Galaxy Forum Korea 2020, Daejeon, Korea
[Feb 20] 6th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management (GISTAM 2020), Prague, Czech Republic
[Feb 20] Binary Plutino 341520 Mors-Somnus
At Opposition (29.904 AU)
[Feb 22] Workshop: LIFE - Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE), Leiden, The Netherlands
[Feb 23] Workshop: Growth of Small Scales in Corona and Solar Wind, Leiden, The Netherlands
[Feb 19] CTS Summer School & Workshop on GW Astrophysics, Bangalore, India
[Feb 23] 4th Annual Fulbright-Cottrell Junior Faculty Professional Development Workshop, Cologne, Germany
[Feb 21] SpX-DM2 (Demo 2)
Falcon 9 Launch (International Space Station)
[Feb 25] Asteroid 451 Patientia Closest Approach To Earth (2.286 AU)
[Feb 19] Asteroid 775 Lumiere Closest Approach To Earth (2.175 AU)
June 2020
(1.922 AU)
[Feb 25] Starlink 7 (60)/
SkySat 19-21 Falcon 9 Launch
[Feb 25] SmallSat Rideshare Mission 1 Falcon 9 Launch
[Feb 24] 23rd Meeting of the Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG), Laurel, Maryland
[Feb 22] Workshop: Complexity from Quantum Information to Black Holes, Leiden, The Netherlands
[Feb 18] 17th International Planetary Probe Workshop (IPPW 2020), Monterey, California
[Feb 24] 36th IAP Colloquium: The Circum gaLactic mEdium around gAlaxies: when baRyons iNvESt haloS (CLEARNESS 2020), Paris, France
[Feb 23] Workshop: Inflationary Imprints in Large-Scale Structure, Leiden, The Netherlands
[Feb 20] Conference: Strong and Electro-Weak Matter 2020 (SEWM), Paris, France
[Feb 23] European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2020, Leiden, The Netherlands
July 2020
(4.094 AU)
[Feb 25] Starlink 8 (60) Falcon 9 Launch
[Feb 25] Workshop: New Frontiers in Strong Gravity, Benasque, Spain
[Feb 23] Workshop: Modelling the Galactic Magnetic Field, Leiden, The Netherlands
[Jul 16] 16th Summer School of Modern Astrophysics (SOMA-2020): Exoplanets - Formation and Evolution, Moscow, Russia
[Feb 21] 7th Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean (RP20), Montego Bay, Jamacica
[Feb 18] Workshop: Strong Gravitational Lensing, Bern, Switzerland
[Feb 18] Conference: Gauge/Gravity Duality 2020, Geneva, Switzerland
[Feb 20] 9th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2020), Kolymbari, Crete, Greece
August 2020
[Feb 25] Starlink 9 (60) Falcon 9 Launch
[Feb 19] AFSPC 44 Falcon Heavy Launch
[Feb 18] Conference: Chandra Frontiers in Time-Domain Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts
[Feb 22] 10th Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management, New York, New York
[Feb 23] 83rd Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society, Glascow, Scotland
[Feb 18] Experimental Analysis of the Outer Solar System II Workhop, Fayetteville, Arkansas
[Feb 25] Colloquium: Observational Evidence for Cosmic Ray Driven Galactic Winds, Sydney, Australia
[Feb 21] Kuiper Belt Object 225088 Gonggong
At Opposition (87.524 AU)
[Feb 18] Workshop on the Standard Model and Beyond, Corfu, Greece
September 2020
[Feb 25] Starlink 10 (60) Falcon 9 Launch
[Feb 19] Neutrino Oscillation Workshop (NOW 2020), Rosa Marina, Ostuni, Italy
[Feb 25] Conference: Multiple Stellar Populations in the Next Decade (Padova 2020), Padova, Italy
[Feb 23] 8th Annual Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Community Science Meeting: Black Holes at All Scales, Sedona, Arizona
[Feb 18] Conference: IRN Terascale@Bonn, Bonn, Germany
[Feb 24] NASA Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon), Tokyo, Japan
[Feb 19] Conference: Quantum Field Theory at the Boundary, Mainz, Germany
[Feb 21] Apollo Asteroid 2015 TB14
Closest Approach To Earth (3.053 AU)
[Feb 18] Galaxy Forum Europe 2020, Vienna, Austria
[Feb 22] Asteroid 45509 Robertward Closest Approach To Earth (1.478 AU)
October 2020
[Feb 25] NanoRacks/Lemur 2/Kepler Falcon 9 Launch
[Feb 18] Asteroid 5864 Montgolfier Closest Approach To Earth (1.153 AU)
[Feb 18] Conference on Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
[Feb 23] Workshop: Witnessing Quantum Aspects of Gravity in a Laboratory, Leiden, The Netherlands
[Feb 20] Workshop: Mathematical and Computational Approaches for Solving the Source- Free Einstein Field Equations, Providence, Rhode Island
[Feb 24] World Statistics Day
[Feb 18] Geologial Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada
[Feb 20] Workshop: Mathematical and Computational Approaches for the Einstein Field Equations with Matter Fields, Providence, Rhode Island
November 2020
[Feb 20] Workshop: Statistical Methods for the Detection, Classification, and Inference of Relativistic Objects, Providence, Rhode Island
[Feb 18] 5th International Workshop on Instrumentation
for Planetary Missions 2020 (IMP 2020), Tokyo, Japan
[Feb 24] Workshop: Life Around a Radio Star, Leiden, The Netherlands
[Feb 24] Conference: Inward Bound - Bulges from High Redshifts to the Milky Way, Garching, Germany
[Feb 24] Workshop: Space Science for Societal Challenges, Leiden, The Netherlands
[Feb 23] Kuiper Belt Object 523759 (2014 WK509)
At Opposition (51.229 AU)
[Feb 19] Workshop: Frontiers of Quantum Simulation with Synthetic Systems, Natal, Brazil
December 2020
[Feb 19] Kuiper Belt Object 148780 Altjira
At Opposition (45.058 AU)
[Feb 24] American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California
[Feb 25] Workshop: A SHOT IN THE DARK - New Challenges in Cosmology, Leiden, The Netherlands
[Feb 24] Asteroid 298 Baptistina Closest Approach To Earth (1.151 AU)
January 2021
[Feb 25] CAPSTONE Electron Launch (Lunar Orbiter)
[Feb 21] Asteroid 6186 Zenon (2 Moons) Closest Approach To Earth (1.182 AU)
February 2021
(Space Shuttle Columbia)
[Feb 20] Asteroid 4666 Dietz (2 Moons) Closest Approach To Earth (1.835 AU)
[Feb 22] Kuiper Belt Object 420356 Praamzius
At Opposition (42.039 AU)
[Feb 18] Asteroid 5661 Hildebrand Closest Approach To Earth (3.859 AU)
[Feb 18] Asteroid 17059 Elvis Closest Approach To Earth (1.567 AU)
[Feb 18] Asteroid 2046 Leningrad Closest Approach To Earth (2.690 AU)
[Feb 18] 55th Anniversary (1966), Apollo AS-201 Saturn 1B Launch (Unmanned)
[Feb 18] 125th Anniversary (1896), Henri Becquerel's
Discovery of Radioactivity
[Feb 19] Francois Arago's 235th Birthday (1786)
[Feb 19] Niccolo Cabeo's 435th Birthday (1586)
[Feb 19] Asteroid 4659 Roddenberry Closest Approach To Earth (1.706 AU)
[Feb 19] Asteroid 5405 Neverland Closest Approach To Earth (1.752 AU)
[Feb 20] Asteroid 3350 Scobee Closest Approach To Earth (1.780 AU)
[Feb 20] Asteroid 6227 Alanrubin Closest Approach To Earth (2.494 AU)
[Feb 20] 195th Anniversary (1826), Wilhelm von Biela
Confirms Biela's Comet is a Periodic Comet
[Feb 20] 410th Anniversary (1611), 1st Observation of a Sunspot by Johannes Fabricius
[Feb 21] Asteroid 1103 Sequoia Closest Approach To Earth (1.204 AU)
[Feb 21] Asteroid 9965 GNU Closest Approach To Earth (1.337 AU)
[Feb 21] 55th Anniversary (1966), Original Gemini 9 Crew Killed in Plane Crash
[Feb 22] 120th Anniversary (1901), Percy Molesworth's Discovery of the South Tropical Distrubance on Jupiter
[Feb 22] 65th Anniversary (1956), Centerville Meteorite Fall (Hit Shed in South Dakota)
[Feb 22] Jack Lousma's 85th Birthday (1936)
March 2021
[Feb 23] 20th Anniversary (2001), Discovery of NWA 1950 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
[Feb 23] 20th Anniversary (2001), Discovery of NWA 856 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
[Feb 23] Aten Asteorid 2011 DW Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)
[Feb 23] Asteroid 16809 Galapagos Closest Approach To Earth (1.676 AU)
[Feb 23] Asteroid 85386 Payton Closest Approach To Earth (2.009 AU)
[Feb 23] Amor Asteroid 481984 Cernunnos
Closest Approach To Earth (2.244 AU)
[Feb 23] Asteroid 4226 Damiaan Closest Approach To Earth (2.608 AU)
[Feb 24] 55th Anniversary (1966), Venera 3, Venus Impact (USSR)
[Feb 23] Comet C/2019 T3 (ATLAS)
Perihelion (5.947 AU)
[Feb 24] Apollo Asteroid 2016 DV1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.010 AU)
[Feb 24] Apollo Asteroid 1999 RM45 Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)
[Feb 24] Aten Asteroid 2011 EH17 Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU)
[Feb 24] Binary Aten Asteroid 153931 (2000 EA107)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.115 AU)
[Feb 24] Asteroid 52301 Qumran Closest Approach To Earth (1.633 AU)
[Feb 24] Asteroid 13599 Lisbon Closest Approach To Earth (2.079 AU)
[Feb 25] Asteroid 4559 Strauss Closest Approach To Earth (2.333 AU)
[Feb 25] Asteroid 886 Washingtonia Closest Approach To Earth (3.017 AU)
[Feb 25] Amor Asteroid 3551 Verenia
Closest Approach To Earth (1.964 AU)
[Feb 23] Hyperbolic Object A/2019 O3
Perihelion (8.827 AU)
[Feb 25] Amor Asteroid 3988 Huma
Closest Approach To Earth (1.957 AU)
[Feb 25] Asteroid 128523 Johnmuir Closest Approach To Earth (1.825 AU)
[Feb 25] Richard Tolman's 140th Birthday (1881)
[Feb 23] Jupiter Passes 0.3 Degrees From
Mercury
[Feb 24] Hyperbolic Object A/2019 K6
Closest Approach To Earth (3.923 AU)
[Feb 25] Asteroid 9500 Camelot Closest Approach To Earth (1.422 AU)
[Feb 23] Mercury At Its Greatest Western
Elongation (27 Degrees)
[Feb 24] Comet P/2019 A3 (PANSTARRS)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.999 AU)
[Feb 24] Comet P/2019 A3 (PANSTARRS)
At Opposition (2.999 AU)
[Feb 25] Comet P/2017 U3 (PANSTARRS)
Closest Approach To Earth (3.756 AU)
[Feb 25] Comet P/2017 U3 (PANSTARRS)
At Opposition (3.756 AU)
[Feb 24] Hyperbolic Object A/2019 K6
At Opposition (3.957 AU)
[Feb 24] Venus At Its Greatest Western
Elongation (47 Degrees)
[Feb 23] Comet P/2019 V2 (Groeller)
Closest Approach To Earth (4.071 AU)
[Feb 25] Kuiper Belt Object 2014 YA50
At Opposition (40.933 AU)
[Feb 25] Comet P/2018 P3 (PANSTARRS)
At Opposition (3.262 AU)
[Feb 23] Comet P/2019 V2 (Groeller)
At Opposition (4.071 AU)
[Feb 25] International Conference on Astronomy and Space Sciences (ICASS 2021), Dubai, United Arab Emirates
[Feb 23] Dwarf Planet 136472 Makemake
At Opposition (51.726 AU)
[Feb 24] Mercury Passes 1.4 Degrees From
Neptune
[Feb 23] Conference: White Dwarfs from Physics to Astrophysics, Santa Barbara, California
Ron Baalke
Jet Propulsion Lab