Join SpaceWatch.Global's new Space Café "Law Breakfast with Steven Freeland" #02 series where global space law experts discuss the legal issues from everyday space activities. This event will take place on 25 March 2021 at 9:30 am CET. Space Café "Law Breakfast with Steven Freeland" will analyze current space developments with a legal focus.

In a blink it seems our lives have become almost completely reliant on space infrastructure and the digital – or cyber - life that has burgeoned from it.  Cyber is here and amassed the “trillions” scenario predicted only a decade ago.  Weather forecasting, financial interactions, air transportation, defence, global positioning system (GPS), and communications systems all depend on infrastructure on the ground and in space.

This Space Café Australia will feature Micheal Davis, Chair of the Andy Thomas Space Foundation in conversation with Melanie Jane Ward, Correspondent of SpaceWatch.Global for Australia and New Zealand. This event will take place on 18 March at 9:30 pm CET.

Torsten Kriening in conversation with China space analytics expert, self-proclaimed “China Space Guy” and founder of Orbital Gateway Consulting –  a boutique market research and consulting firm focusing on the business of space and satellite telecommunications – Blaine Curcio. Blaine Curcio was born in the US and has spent the last 14 years working and studying in the international space industry

Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring Dr. Darren McKnight, Senior Technical Fellow at LeoLabs, USA. This event will take place on 23 March 2021 at 4:00 pm CET.

Berlin, 4 March 2021. – The new ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher started his position on 1 March 2021. Who is Josef Aschbacher? Born in Austria, Josef Aschbacher studied at the University of Innsbruck, graduating with a Master’s and a Doctoral degree in natural sciences.

ICEYE, the largest commercial synthetic-aperture Radar (SAR) satellite operator and flood monitoring provider, announces its strategic partnership with Swiss Re, one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance and insurance.

February 2021 was a blockbuster month for space transactions. When including the announced SPAC mergers of Astra and BlackSky, total money raised by space companies exceeds US$2.1 billion (of which the SPACs represent almost US$1 billion and SpaceX another US$850 million).

Do we really need to grow into space? How can we do it in a sustainable way? It is high time for an integrated discussion of space matters with planetary concerns. The workshop #PLASUS21 – „Planetary Sustainability 21: Challenges, Opportunities and Necessities” connects space & global sustainability, key space actors …

When we think about our environment, we do not tend to include space. However, with increasing alerts of possible space pollution and a rising urgency to deal with space debris, the question of a “Green Space” has become pertinent.