Our Space Café “33 minutes with Michael Gschweitl about “ESA BIC Switzerland: the good, the bad, and.. Space” took place on Tuesday, 14 February 2023. Michael Gschweitl is the Technical Lead at ESA BIC Switzerland, the Business Incubation Program (BIC) of the European Space Agency (ESA) for Switzerland, which is run by ETH Zurich.

This Space Café Israel will feature Alice Miller - VP Space in Helios - in conversation with Meidad Pariente, correspondent of SpaceWatch.Global for Israel - From Earth to the Moon and back: spin-ups and spin-downs of beyond earth habitat - Alice, like many, wanted to become an astronaut. Becoming a pilot was the first step. Once she realized women could not become pilots in the Israeli Air Force, she petitioned the high court and won the case (1995). She did not become a pilot but opened the doors for hundreds and thousands of women.

In this first pilot episode of Space Economy Insights, Kevin O'Connell and Emma Gatti interviewed Claire Jolly, Head of Ocean Economy & Space Economy, Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present: The Space Café Podcast #74: Carissa Christensen of BryceTech talks commercial potentials in the space industry and its latest innovations

This Space Café WebTalk will feature Pierre Lionnet, Research and Managing Director at ASD-Eurospace, in conversation with Torsten Kriening, publisher of SpaceWatch.Global. The space economist that challenges the "new space" narrative and predicted the "space SPACs" debacle.

In this Space Café Radio - SpaceWatch.Global publisherTorsten Kriening spoke with Matthias Gronowski, Chief Engineer of Orion ESM at Airbus Defence and Space in Bremen , about the leanings from the Artemis-1 mission, the challenges, and the way forward to the next mission. We spoke with Matthias during the Moon Media Day at the Airbus Bremen facility on 9th Feb 2023 on the visitor gallery above the ESM cleanroom.

Join Peggy Hollinger and Torsten Kriening LIVE on LinkedIn for a virtual discussion on the long-term financial sustainability of the space sector on 1 March. The New Space Economy: Risk vs. Reward. Despite the space economy generating $424 billion in 2022, according to the latest statistics from VC firm Space Capital, overall investment is down 58% year on year. With a bleak global economic outlook creating a climate of risk-adversity, what does this mean for the New Space economy?

In this Space Café Radio - SpaceWatch.Global publisher Torsten Kriening spoke with  Dr. Jessica West, Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares, and Victoria Samson, Washington Office Director at Secure World Foundation. In this episode, Torsten talked with Jessica and Victoria about the third session of the Open-ended working group on reducing space threats through norms, rules, and principles of responsible behaviors, held in early February 2023 in Geneva.

Ploughshares Senior Researcher Dr. Jessica West spoke with Brian Gallant, the founding and current CEO of Space Canada, an association established in March 2022 to represent Canada’s outer space innovators and allied industries. Nine companies originally came together to found Space Canada (https://space-canada.ca), with the aim of “strengthen[ing] the Canadian space ecosystem.”

In this Space Café Radio - SpaceWatch.Global publisher Torsten Kriening spoke with Eva-Maria Aicher, Director Strategic Business Development Space at HENSOLDT Sensors about their heritage and ambitions in the space sector. We spoke with Eva-Maria during this year's ILA Berlin which is the largest aerospace trade show in Germany which took place this year June 22 - 26.