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Progress MS-33 (which NASA calls Progress 94) lifted off the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this morning and will dock at the ISS on Tuesday. Photo credit: NASA<\/p>\nHere is SpacePolicyOnline.com\u2019s list of space policy events for the week of March 22-28, 2026 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session this week.<\/p>\n
During the Week<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a busy, busy, busy week that started already this morning with the successful launch of Russia\u2019s Progress MS-33 cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station from the repaired Site 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.<\/p>\n
Progress MS-33 (which NASA calls Progress 94) lifted off the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this morning and will dock at the ISS on Tuesday. Photo credit: NASA<\/p>\n
The spacecraft, which NASA calls Progress 94 because it\u2019s the 94th Progress to resupply the ISS, will dock with the ISS on Tuesday at 9:34 am ET. Although everything apparently went well with liftoff, RussianSpaceWeb\u2019s Anatoly Zak reports<\/a> that one of the two KURS antennas needed for an automated docking didn\u2019t deploy and cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov will perform a manual docking using the TORU backup system.<\/p>\n On Capitol Hill, the Senate is meeting in a rare weekend session right now debating how to fund all or part of the Department of Homeland Security (controversial because it includes funding for ICE and Customs and Border Patrol), and whether to pass the SAVE Act that concerns voter eligibility. Both topics are well outside the scope of this website, so we\u2019ll leave it there, but the Senate will be busy all week long before leaving \u2014 along with the House \u2014 for a two week spring recess scheduled to begin on Friday. Whether they can get Matt Anderson\u2019s nomination to be NASA Deputy Administrator done before then, with the Artemis II launch on the horizon, remains to be seen. Senate leadership\u2019s priority is getting Markwayne Mullin confirmed as DHS Secretary, but they might be able to get a few others through. Time will tell.<\/p>\n The Senate and House have several space-related hearings plus a markup this week, all of which will be webcast by the various committees:<\/p>\n National Security Space<\/p>\n Wednesday, March 25, 3:00 pm ET: HASC Strategic Forces Subcommittee, National Security Space Programs and Activities (Mark Berkowitz, OSD; Thomas Ainsworth, DAF; Brett Markham, NGA; William Adkins, NRO; Lt. Gen. Douglas Scheiss, USSF) Civil\/Commercial Space<\/p>\n Wednesday, March 25, 10:00 am ET: House SS&T space subcommittee, The Future of Low Earth Orbit: From the ISS to Commercial Platforms (Joel Montalbano, NASA; Dave Cavossa, CSF; Charlie Precourt, ASAP) We\u2019ll note with a bit of a smile that the House will take up the \u201cSmart Space Act of 2026,\u201d but it\u2019s about financing for constructing public buildings, not the space program.<\/p>\n All of that is competing for our attention with these events just in D.C., not to mention elsewhere:<\/p>\n Monday-Thursday: the annual SATShow, Satellite 2026, this year combined with GovMilSpace, plus side events at and near the Walter E. Washington Convention Center; We\u2019ll stop there and let everyone peruse the full list of events below.<\/p>\n We will mention, however, that NASA is having an all-day meeting at NASA HQ on Tuesday that will be livestreamed. Few details have been made public, but the focus is on how NASA will execute President Trump\u2019s December 18, 2025 Executive Order on Ensuring American Space Superiority.<\/a>\u00a0 NASA refers to it as the National Space Policy although it\u2019s not as comprehensive as previous presidential national space policies, including Trump\u2019s in 2020.<\/a> In any case, the focus on Tuesday is Artemis, and international and industry leaders will be there along with the media. A news conference is at 4:30 pm ET [updated time is 4:45 pm ET]. The information we were given isn\u2019t embargoed, but NASA hasn\u2019t put out an official announcement yet. If they do later today or tomorrow (Monday) morning we\u2019ll update this.<\/p>\n UPDATE, March 23:\u00a0 a link to NASA\u2019s announcement of the meeting and details is now posted on NASA\u2019s website<\/a>. The news conference is at 4:45 pm ET instead of 4:30 pm ET. The all-day meeting will be livestreamed on NASA+,<\/a>\u00a0Amazon Prime<\/a>, and the agency\u2019s\u00a0YouTube<\/a> channel. In-person attendance is invitation-only.<\/p>\n Those and other events we know about as of Sunday morning are shown below.\u00a0 Check back throughout the week for others we learn about later and add to our Calendar or changes to these.<\/p>\n Sunday, March 22<\/p>\n Monday, March 23<\/p>\n Monday-Thursday, March 23-26<\/p>\n Monday-Friday, March 23-27<\/p>\n Munich Space Summit,<\/a> Munich, Germany Plenary Session, Tuesday, March 24, 10:00 am-6:00 pm\u00a0 ET Tuesday, March 24<\/p>\n Progress MS-33 Docks with ISS<\/a>, 9:34 am ET (NASA coverage begins 8:45 am ET) Wednesday, March 25<\/p>\n House SS&T Sbcmte Hrg on Future of LEO: From ISS to Commercial Platforms,<\/a> 2318 Rayburn House Office Building, 10:00 am ET (webcast) Thursday, March 26<\/p>\n ESA Pre-Launch Bfg (in English) for SMILE Mission<\/a>, 9:00 am ET (watch on ESA TV) Thursday-Friday, March 26-27<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This article has been updated.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLast Updated: Mar 23, 2026 12:29 pm ET\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com\u2019s list of space policy events for the week of March 22-28, 2026 and any insight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[242062,242059,242060,79,242061,193,242057,242063,242056,242058],"class_list":["post-540795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-gen-stephen-whiting-u-s-space-command-congressional-testimony-march-2026","tag-house-hearing-on-commercial-space-stations-march-2026","tag-house-hearing-on-national-security-space-activities-march-2026","tag-science","tag-senate-hearing-on-u-s-space-cmmand-march-2026","tag-space","tag-when-is-satellite-2026","tag-when-is-space-science-week-2026","tag-when-is-the-2026-munich-space-summit","tag-when-is-the-wsbr-silent-auction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThursday, March 26, 9:30 am ET: SASC Full Committee, Posture of U.S. Space Command and U.S. Strategic Command (Gen. Stephen Whiting and Adm. Richard Correll)<\/p>\n
\nWednesday, March 25, 10:00 am ET: Senate Commerce markup of several bills including two regarding satellites \u2014 S. 1962, the Secure Satellite Act, and S. 3404, the Satellite Cybersecurity Act<\/p>\n
\nMonday-Friday: the National Academies\u2019 annual Space Science Week at the National Academy of Sciences building on Constitution Avenue with meetings of each of the space science committees and a plenary session on Tuesday that includes high ranking NASA officials, and a public event on Wednesday night with the singer Jewel on imagination and science;
\nTuesday, March 24, 2:00 pm ET: the Atlantic Council\u2019s \u201cShaping the New Space Age\u201d at their headquarters with representatives from the UAE Space Agency and Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center, Viasat, ESA, and Space42;
\nWednesday, March 25, 1:00-5:30 pm ET: Meridian International\u2019s Space Diplomacy Summit with House SS&T Chair Brian Babin (R-Texas), former NASA administrator and Managing Partner of the Artemis Group Jim Bridenstine, UN Outer Space Affairs Office Director Aarti Holla-Maini, and many more prestigious speakers;
\nThursday, March 26, 1:00-5:30 pm ET: the annual USRA\/SPI (University Space Research Association\/Space Policy Institute) symposium with the theme \u201cScience for a New Era of Exploration: Path from the Moon to Mars\u201d with an impressive group of speakers including NASA SMD Associate Administrator Nicky Fox, JPL Chief Scientist Jonathan Lunine, and former NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green.<\/p>\n
\nSpace Science Week<\/a> (National Academies), National Academy of Sciences building, 2101 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC (open sessions livestreamed, some committees meet jointly with others)<\/p>\n
\nPublic Lecture, Wednesday, March 25, 7:00 pm ET (livestreamed): An Instrument Nature Can Play: Data, Sound, and the Work of Imagination in Science, with singer Jewel<\/a>
\nCommittee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA), March 25-26
\nCommittee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS), March 23 and March 25-26
\nCommittee on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space (CBPSS), March 25-26
\nCommittee on Earth Science and Applications from Space (CESAS), March 24 (8:45-9:45 am ET, with CORF), and March 25-26
\nCommittee on Solar and Space Physics (CSSP), March 25
\nCommittee on Planetary Protection (CoPP), March 24 (8:45-9:45 am ET) and March 25-27
\nCommittee on Radio Frequencies (CORF),\u00a0 March 24 (8:45-9:45 am ET with CESAS) and March 25 (1:00-3:25 pm ET with CAA)<\/p>\n
\nNASA Meeting on Executing the President\u2019s National Space Policy<\/a>, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, 9:00 am-6:00 pm ET (livestreamed)
\nShaping the New Space Age<\/a> (Atlantic Council), 1400 L St., NW, Washington, DC, 2:00-4:00 pm ET (livestreamed)<\/p>\n
\nSenate Commerce Markup Including Two Satellite Bills,<\/a> 253 Russell Senate Office Building, 10:00 am ET (webcast)
\nSpace Diplomacy Forum<\/a> (Meridian International), 1630 Crescent Place, NW, Washington, DC, 1:00-5:30 pm ET (livestreamed)
\nHASC Sbcmte Hrg on National Security Space Programs<\/a>, 2118 Rayburn House Office Building, 3:00 pm ET (webcast)<\/p>\n
\nSASC Hrg on Posture of U.S. Space Command and U.S. Strategic Command,<\/a> SD-G50 Dirksen Senate Office Building, 9:30 am ET (webcast)
\nFCC Open Meeting including Spectrum Abundance for Weird Space Stuff,<\/a> 45 L St., NE, Washington, DC, 10:30 am-12:30 pm ET (webcast)
\nScience for a New Era of Exploration: Path from the Moon to Mars<\/a> (USRA\/SPI), Holiday Inn, Washington, DC, National Mall, 550 C St., SW, Washington, DC, 1:00-5:30 pm ET (livestreamed)<\/p>\n