SpaceWatch.Global has been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. This is “‘An Australian ‘space command’ could be a force for good — or a cause for war”, originally published 1 April 2021 at The Conversation by Cassandra Steer.

This Space Café UAE will feature Sahith Reddy Madara, UAE's National Point of Contact for the Space Generation Advisory Council in conversation with Abdulla A. Wasel,

This Space Café Brazil will feature Aila Raquel, CEO of Alya Nanosatellites Constellation E.O., in conversation with Ian Grosner, Correspondent of SpaceWatch.Global for Brazil.

Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring Robert Feierbach, President and Founder of Clarkebelt Space, Luxembourg/USA.

The Earth monitoring start-up ICEYE signed contracts totalling € 42 million last year for radar satellite imaging services, solutions, and satellite missions, the company said – ten times more than in the previous year.

OHB Sweden contracted Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) to launch “an upcoming mission” scheduled for mid-2024, the company said. It is the first commercial customer for RFA, according to the German launch start-up in which OHB Group is invested.

The South Korean Hanwha Systems wants to launch a massive LEO constellation of 2,000 satellites by 2030, Space News reported.

This Space Café Scotland will feature movers and shakers from the Scottish Space Leadership Council in conversation with Angela Mathis, CEO of ThinkTank Maths and a friend of SpaceWatch.Global. This event will take place on 29 April 2021 at 4:00 pm CEST.

In this week’s Space Café Webtalk “33 minutes with…”, SpaceWatch.Global publisher, Torsten Kriening, had the chance to speak with Aarti Holla-Maini, who, since 2004, has been the Secretary-General of the EMEA Satellite Operators Association (ESOA). ESOA is a CEO-driven satellite association, with 22 satellite operators from across multiple orbits as members.

Our global IT team will perform a few maintenance tasks on Friday 2 April during the day.