On October 20, 2022 the ESA Council approved Falcon 9 as the ESA Euclid launch vehicle. The launch is planned for July to September 2023. Euclid has completed its integration and is in its final stages of testing before launch.

In April, the SPHEREx team's final plans were approved by NASA, a step that the agency calls critical design review or CDR. This marks a major milestone for the mission on the way to launch.

The milestone of 5,000 exoplanets included in the NASA Exoplanet Archive was announced.

Each year NExScI offers the Sagan Summer Workshop, a week-long workshop that explores a specific exoplanet topic in detail. The topic of the 2023 workshop is “Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheres: The Next Twenty Years.”

The Roman Virtual Lecture Series, run jointly by JPL, IPAC, GSFC, and STScI, is open to the entire astronomical community and covers science, engineering, and technology related to the Roman mission. Talks are the 3rd Thursday of each month from 1 pm to 1:30 pm Pacific/4 pm to 4:30 pm Eastern, and are ~ 20 minutes with ~ 10 minutes reserved for Q&A. To receive monthly lecture announcements and webinar connection

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We are pleased to announce that a splinter session on "Starting Now: Community-Led Definition of the Roman Core Community Surveys" will be held at the 241th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, WA, on Wednesday, January 11, 2022 at 2 pm PDT in Room 4C-3.

IRSA has been releasing new data from the Zwicky Transient Facility every two months during 2022. The 14th public data release in November contains approximately 43.8 million images, 701 billion source detections extracted from these images, and over 4.5 billion light curves.

IRSA has released two simulated data sets generated by the Roman Cosmology Science Investigation Team: the Roman HLSS Grism Simulation Products and the Roman HLSS Galaxy Mock Catalog.

A new version of IRSA Viewer allows pinning of custom plots of tabular data, enabling a simultaneous view of multiple different chart types and axes.

IRSA has released a new version of the software underlying WISE Image Service with a modern user interface consistent with other IRSA tools. Twelve of the tutorial videos for the WISE Image Service have been updated.

More IRSA news.

We are seeking new members of the NED Users Committee. If you would like to help shape the future of NED, please contact Joseph Mazzarella (mazz@ipac.caltech.edu).

The paper "Best Practices for Data Publication in the Astronomical Literature" (ApJS), led by NED in collaboration with many archives and publishers, has been published and linked by AAS publishing board in their instructions to authors pages. NED team members Tracy Chen and Marion Schmitz are featured in an AAS Journal Author Series Video posted on YouTube. We encourage all authors of articles containing astronomical data to refer to these Best Practices before submission to a journal.

The Ultraviolet Explorer (UVEX) is one of two concept studies for the next NASA Medium Explorer. Launching no earlier than 2027, UVEX would undertake a UV synoptic survey of the entire sky, probing the dynamic universe (e.g., aftermaths of gravitational wave-discovered compact object mergers, discoveries of fast UV transients, and the early stages of explosive phenomena).

The UVEX team is pleased to announce the "First UVEX Community Workshop: Synergies and New Opportunities," which will be held in Pasadena, CA on the Caltech campus from 13 to 15 March, 2023.

We are looking forward to seeing you (virtually or in-person) in Seattle! IPAC will have a vibrant presence at the 241st meeting of the AAS in Seattle, WA, held January 8–12, 2023. Look for us at the IPAC booth. Several talks, posters and workshops will be given by IPAC scientists. Follow our activities at https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/page/ipac-at-aas-dps.

Please reserve the dates above for an exciting exchange of ideas at the "Surveying the Milky Way: the Universe in Our Own Backyard" IPAC Science Conference in Pasadena, CA. More information will follow in future IPAC Uplink Newsletters.