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Call for Concepts for Study Programs
KISS Town Hall: October 14, 2019 (11 AM at JPL – pdf available here)
The Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) is soliciting concepts for Study Programs to be carried out during the 2020 calendar year. Concepts are solicited in the areas of space engineering, planetary science, remote sensing and earth system science, astrobiology, and astronomy and physics from space.
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Lecture: Exploring Jupiter
Discovering the riches of our outer solar system with robotic spacecraft has been one of humankind’s great scientific accomplishments in the last 50 years. Dr. Hansen will discuss how our knowledge of Jupiter has evolved and talk about the latest mission, Juno, in orbit now around Jupiter.
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Proposal Concepts Due (noon)
The Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) is soliciting concepts for Study Programs to be carried out during the 2020 calendar year. Concepts are solicited in the areas of space engineering, planetary science, remote sensing and earth system science, astrobiology, and astronomy and physics from space.
Proposal Concepts Due
Proposals Due
Panel Session/Networking Event:
The Space Connection - Navigating the Bridge between JPL and the Caltech Campus
Proposals Selections Announced
Solicitation Release Date
Proposal Concepts Due (noon)
Proposals Due (noon)
Star Formation and Nearby Galaxies with JWST
Proposal Concepts Due
KISS Affiliates Program Nominations Concepts Due
Proposals Due
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