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.

SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 22nd episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Avi Loeb - did we just witness an encounter of non-human origin? Episode 022 features a special guest Prof. Avi Loeb. In 2017, a strange object appeared in our solar system only to disappear again.

Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring José Achache, Space innovation architect, CEO of ALTYN, Geneva, Switzerland. This event will take place on 16 March 2021 at 4:00 pm CET.

As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Orbital Gateway Consulting we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. We are pleased to present “Dongfang Hour China Aerospace News Roundup 22-28 Feb 2021”.

As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and the European Space Policy Institute, we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and briefs. This is ESPI Briefs No. 47: ‘About a new European multi-orbit connectivity system’, originally published in January 2021.

by Antonio Fowl Stark, Winner SGAC SSS-PG Essay Competition 2020 The Spectrums of Space Traffic ManagementSpace Traffic Management (STM) is inherently an intergovernmental and interdisciplinary field. Precisely for these characteristics, there is no single agreed-upon definition of STM.