The moment the decommissioned ISS burns through re-entry and plunges into the Pacific Ocean will be heart-breaking. Granted, we will still have the Chinese Tiangong space station as a symbol of governmental and entrepreneurial prowess. But once the (American) private sector is solely in charge of orbital space stations other than Chinese ones, albeit with some friends and allies governments support as anchor customers, what will happen with global micro-G accessibility?
Read More »Space Cafè Radio – Secure World Foundation ep. 01 – Tim Maclay
In this Space Café Radio - SpaceWatch.Global's Dr. Emma Gatti spoke with Tim Maclay, the chief strategy officer and US general manager at ClearSpace, an in-orbiting service and space debris company founded in 2018. Today's episode is in partnership with the Secure World Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on the long-term sustainability of outer space and earth orbits, as well as space security and stability considerations.
Read More »Space Cafe Radio – EUSPA Ep.01 – with Piotr Sitek
In this Space Café Radio - SpaceWatch.Global's Dr. Emma Gatti spoke with Piotr Sitek, governmental and new components, security governance officer in the security authority department of EUSPA. This radio episode is part of a joint collaboration between SpaceWatch.Global and EUSPA, the EU Agency for the Space Programme.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Summer Reading: The Wonders of Micro-G Medicine 1
Back in the 70’s, the Japanese space agency JAXA run an experiment called the Japanese Cat's Whisker Experiment. It took place aboard Skylab between May 1973 and February 1974, the same year Pink Floyd released “The Dark Side of the Moon”. Contrary to what you might think, it did not involve cats.
Read More »SpaceWatch.Global featured in BBC News
SpaceWatch.Global scored its first BBC News appearance on Friday at 12:30 UK time, with editor in chief Dr. Emma Gatti being invited to comment on the potentially historical launch of Chandrayaan-3.
Read More »Space Factor ITA ep. 02 – Giovanni Pandolfi
Welcome to Space Factor, the new podcast mini-series presented by SpaceWatch.Global in collaboration with Dassault Systèmes Italia, the leading agency supporting the creation, simulation and production of space systems. Our aim is to connect space leaders with aspiring students and innovative thinkers in the Italian space sector.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: FT Live Investing In Space 2023 – Insights from the SWGL Team
Like last year, the SpaceWatch.Global newsroom has gathered together to analyse the Financial Time Investing In Space 2023 Summit, held in London on the 5th and 6th of June 2023. The second Summit kept the format of the inaugural one, with a mixed audience of venture capitalists, space experts, space industrials, and agency representatives. We observed a few leitmotifs seen during the first edition, like the importance every year some speaker gives to find a better name for the Space industry
Read More »Space Economy Insights ep. 2 – Prof Matthew Gilliham
In this second episode of Space Economy Insights, Kevin O'Connell and Emma Gatti interviewed Prof. Matthew Gilliham, the Director of the Wait Research Institute at the University of Adelaide and the Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space (P4S).
Read More »Space Café Radio – SPACE FACTOR ITA EP.01 – Luca Rossettini
Welcome to Space Factor, the new podcast mini-series presented by SpaceWatch.Global in collaboration with Dassault Systèmes Italia, the leading agency supporting to creation, simulation and production of space systems.
Read More »Space Cafè Radio – NewSpace Africa special – with Cecilia Donati and Savino Ruà
In this Space Café Radio - SpaceWatch.Global Editor in Chief Dr. Emma Gatti spoke with Savino Ruà, International Relations Officer at DG DEFIS (European Commission) and Cecilia Donati, Policy Officer Digital and Space for Development at DG INTPA (European Commission) about the recent NewSpace Africa Conference 2023, which took place in Abidjan, in the Ivory Coast, between the 26th and 27th of April 2023.
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