NASA's next giant leap may be aided by tiny lunar robots. These miniature robots would help scout the lunar surface, collecting key information about the Moon, its resources, and the environment. Such data would be helpful for the agency's future lunar endeavors and NASA's Artemis program.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL on the road: Starting a career in the space industry?
Serbian Case for Space Foundation (SCS) organized its second webinar on 30 June 2020, together with Spacewatch.Global on the topic “How to start your career in the space industry”, hosted by Anja Nakarada Pecujlic and Marko Pajović.
Read More »Gogo lowers in-flight connectivity floor to 3,000 feet
Gogo (NASDAQ: GOGO) will lower the altitude at which passengers can begin using its connectivity services from 10,000 feet above ground level (AGL) to 3,000 feet AGL for a significant portion of its air-to-ground (ATG) fleet beginning July 20, 2020.
Read More »International crewed Mars flight may happen in late 2030s
The late 2030s are the most probable time for a crewed spacecraft’s flight to Mars, Executive Director of Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos for Manned Space Programs Sergei Krikalyov said on Friday.
Read More »Telespazio UK awarded ESA contract for satellite-data QA tool
Telespazio UK, a subsidiary of Telespazio – a joint venture between Leonardo (67%) and Thales (33%) – has been awarded a European Space Agency (ESA) contract to further develop a tool to automate quality assurance analysis of Satellite-based Earth Observation (EO) data products.
Read More »Register Today For Our Space Café WebTalk “33 minutes With Christopher Johnson” On 4 August 2020
Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring Christopher Johnson, Space Law Advisor at the Secure World Foundation.
Read More »TNO signs contract ESA for Phase 2 OF TOmCAT project for telecom satellites
TNO has signed a contract with ESA to demonstrate cutting-edge optical communication technologies for future terabit-per-second telecom satellites. The TOmCAT project (Terabit Optical Communication Adaptive Terminal) will enable high-throughput laser communication between ground stations and satellites.
Read More »NASA taps SETI Institute for Planetary Protection Support contract
NASA has awarded the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, a contract to support all phases of current and future planetary protection missions to ensure compliance with planetary protection standards.
Read More »NASA updates protection policies for Moon-to-Mars missions
NASA has released two NASA Interim Directives (NIDs) updating the agency’s requirements for robotic and human missions traveling to the Earth’s Moon, and human missions traveling to Mars. The first, NID 8715.128, addresses the control of forward terrestrial biological contamination associated with all NASA and NASA-affiliated missions intended to land, orbit, or otherwise encounter the Moon.
Read More »ClearSpace-1 mission kicks off
Work has just begun on building the first satellite that can capture and deorbit space debris. Making the space activities more sustainable is a huge responsibility – one that the European Space Agency has entrusted to EPFL startup ClearSpace.
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