The next general meeting of The Albuquerque Astronomical Society will be held on Saturday, August 1, at 7:00 p.m. in Regener Hall on the University of New Mexico Albuquerque Campus. The speaker for the event will be Mark Roverse, the Chief Engineer for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base. He leads a team conducting research on science and technology to advance the United States’ space capabilities. This presentation provides a look into Space Situational Awareness (SSA), in particular space weather as a key component of SSA in terms of both understanding space effects and in forecasting them. Mr. Roverse will focus on the driving force of space weather within the solar system: the Sun. He will discuss the components necessary for space weather forecasting, which include data collection both from the ground and in space