Schedule of Events

Bookmark this page and visit often as this schedule is updated frequently. All times are Eastern Time. - Updated: January 25, 2024

January 2024 - Contract award timeframe for U.S. Marshals Service purchase of Boeing 737 jet. [source]

March 1, 2024 - Rhode Island launch of iGaming (online casinos).

March 11, 2024 12:00 p.m. - North Carolina will launch online/mobile sports betting.

March 2024 - Unibet Sportsbook leaves Virginia.

March 2024 - Permanent Harrah's casino opens at Platte County Agricultural Park, Nebraska.

Spring 2024 - DiamondsJacks Casino in Bossier City, La., could reopen in spring 2024 following a $200 million renovation project.

April 8, 2024 - Three Black Brant IX sounding rockets will launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during a Total Solar Eclipse. Named Apophis, the mission is aimed at collecting data to answer the following science questions:

Does the eclipse shadow directly seed discernible irregularities in the mid-latitude ionosphere?

What are the associated vertical length and time scales of these irregularities?

What are the impacts of the Temperature Gradient Instability and Gradient Drift Instability in seeding small-scale (10s to 100s of meters) ionospheric irregularities in the presence of a solar eclipse?

How do the various regions of the ionosphere behave differently at small scales in response to the overall cooling effect of the thermosphere?

May 2024 - Permanent Hard Rock Hotel & Casino opens in Bristol, Va. (Temporary Bristol Casino opened July 8, 2022)

May 2024 - Spacecraft contract award for NASA/NOAA Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) program. [source]

Mid 2024 - Colonial Downs opens The Rose Gaming Resort in Dumfries, Va.

June 2024 - WarHorse Casino opens in Omaha, Neb.

July 2024 - NASA Wallops Range Contract award. [source]

October 5, 2024 - NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies says an asteroid named 2007 FT3 has a 1 in 11.5 million chance of striking Earth on Oct. 5, 2024. If it hits Earth, it will unleash a force equal to 2.6 billion tons of TNT. While that is enough to cause widespread regional devastation, it is not enough to destroy the planet.

October 2024 - U.S. Navy awards contract to replace E-6B Mercury aircraft fleet. [source]

Late 2024 - Century Casino Caruthersville opens in Missouri.

Late 2024 - Permanent Caesars Virginia casino opens in Danville, Va.

2024 - Dream Las Vegas opens in Nevada.

2025 - Permanent Grand Island Casino Resort opens in Nebraska.

August 2028 - NASA needs a Lunar Terrain Vehicle on the moon by August 2028 to support the Artemis program. [source]

October 9, 2029 - Station Casinos hopes to start construction on their Inspirada hotel project in Las Vegas.

Bookmark this page and visit often as this schedule is updated frequently. All times are Eastern Time. - Updated: January 5, 2024

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