Airbus has been contracted by Arabsat, one of the world’s top satellite operators, to build BADR-8, their new generation telecommunications satellite. BADR-8 will replace and increase Arabsat’s capacity and augment its core business at the BADR hotspot 26°E.
Read More »First Hungarian commercial satellite to be launched in 2024
As a member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU, the United Nations specialised telecommunications agency), Hungary has met all the legal conditions and had all the international agreements (geostationary orbit, required frequencies) necessary to serve the country's communications and telecommunications needs with its own satellite since the 1990s
Read More »Register For Our Space Café WebTalk “33 minutes With Maruska Strah” On 8 September 2020
Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring Maruska Strah, Executive Director of the World Space Week Association. This event will take place on 8 September 2020 at 4:00 pm CEST.
Read More »Space Café Podcast Episode 9 with Moriba Jah Is Now Available
SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 9th episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Moriba Jah on space debris, and why it may be too late
Read More »Azercosmos and iSAT Africa to provide satellite services
Azercosmos established a cooperation with iSAT Africa, the leading data, video and internet service provider serving Telco’s, ISP’s, Media companies, Enterprise Govt and others in Africa and Middle East.
Read More »Emirates Mars Mission Hope Probe completes ‘Perfect’ Trajectory Correction
The Emirates Mars Mission, EMM, the first interplanetary mission undertaken by an Arab nation, today announced the successful completion of TCM1 – its first trajectory correction manoeuvre and a major milestone for the mission as the Mars Hope probe continues its 7-month journey to Mars.
Read More »Broken Cable Damages Arecibo Observatory
One of the auxiliary cables that helps support a metal platform in place above the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, broke on Monday (Aug. 10) causing a 100-foot-long gash on the telescope’s reflector dish. Operations at the UCF-managed observatory are stopped until repairs can be made.
Read More »GomSpace and Fugro collaborate on position and timing accuracy solution
GomSpace and Fugro are collaborating to offer world class position and timing accuracy on nanosatellite.
Read More »Galileo next-gen satellites on the horizon
Following the European Commission’s decision to accelerate development of Galileo Next Generation, ESA has asked European satellite manufacturers to submit bids for the first batch of the Galileo Second Generation (G2) satellites. The new spacecraft are expected to be launched in about four years.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: the Space Law Games begin
Monday 10th August 2020 saw the commencement of the first event in the Space Law Games, an event focusing on a fictional rendezvous and proximity operation (RPO) for a mission extension occurring in Geostationary orbit.
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