https://spacewatch.global/events/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:06:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/events/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/wsbw-2026-fredrik-gustavsson-of-swissto12-on-profitable-growth-and-3d-printed-payloads/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=78015 From World Space Business Week in Paris, SWISSto12's Fredrik Gustavsson joins Torsten Kriening to discuss a new partnership with Mitsubishi Electric, a profitable path toward around 200 million in revenue, and how 3D-printed payloads are unlocking faster, lower-cost satellites.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/space-cafe-clip-alan-gubiev-of-launch-42-on-the-launch-crunch-and-why-small-payloads-are-squeezed/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77968 From Delft, Launch 42 CEO Alan Gubiev joins Daniela Jovic for a candid look at the launch market - scarce options, waiting lists on waiting lists, why the smallest payloads are squeezed hardest, and why now is the perfect moment for Europe's emerging small launchers.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/esa-industry-space-days-2026-martin-jussi-of-kappazeta-on-why-money-really-does-grow-on-trees/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77965 From ESA Industry Space Days at ESTEC, KappaZeta CEO Martin Jüssi joins Daniela Jovic to explain how Earth observation turns forests into measurable value, why the industry should start with user needs rather than technology, and how the company is now developing its own mission.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/wsbw-2026-dr-p-anbalagan-on-maharashtras-plan-to-build-a-space-economy-from-the-ground-up/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77960 From World Space Business Week in Paris, Dr. P. Anbalagan, Principal Secretary for the Government of Maharashtra, joins Laura Todd to explain how India's largest subnational economy is building a space ecosystem end to end - a 300-acre innovation city, 30,000 startups, shared facilities, and a 2027 Space Fest.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/wsbw-2026-furniture-that-builds-itself-joe-landon-of-rendezvous-robotics-on-in-space-self-assembly/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77957 From World Space Business Week in Paris, Joe Landon, co-founder of Rendezvous Robotics, joins Laura Todd to explain how spacecraft can assemble themselves in orbit using magnetic tiles - no astronauts, no robotic arms - unlocking megawatt-class power and large antennas beyond the limits of a rocket fairing.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/wsbw-2026-isabelle-mauro-of-gsoa-on-wrc-27-and-satellite-as-critical-infrastructure/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77952 From World Space Business Week in Paris, GSOA Director General Isabelle Mauro joins Torsten Kriening to explain why WRC-27 is a landmark moment for satellite - with roughly 80% of the agenda now space-related - and what's at stake on spectrum, direct-to-device and lunar communications.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/wsbw-2026-andrew-cawthorne-of-sstl-on-40-years-of-small-satellites-and-a-3-5m-space-telescope/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77942 From World Space Business Week in Paris, SSTL Managing Director Andrew Cawthorne joins Laura Todd to survey a remarkable programme - Lunar Pathfinder, defence and export work, and a 3.5-metre space telescope - and explains why SSTL sits between new space and traditional space.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/wsbw-2026-17000-mph-and-it-stops-trevor-smith-of-atomic-6-on-testing-space-armor/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77947 From World Space Business Week in Paris, Trevor Smith, president and co-founder of Atomic-6, joins Laura Todd to discuss Space Armor - the lightest, thinnest debris shield ever built for space - how it's tested at 7.2 km/s, and its upcoming flight debut with Portal Space Systems.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/wsbw-2026-two-rockets-from-esrange-in-2028-ssc-ceo-charlotta-sund-on-the-firefly-partnership/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77938 From the close of World Space Business Week in Paris, SSC CEO Charlotta Sund joins Laura Todd to discuss the newly announced Firefly partnership bringing Alpha launches to Esrange in 2028, what transatlantic collaboration really demands, and why culture fit matters as much as technology.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/wsbw-2026-franck-mouriaux-of-fada-on-going-from-blank-page-to-operating-satellites-in-two-years/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77935 From World Space Business Week in Paris, Franck Mouriaux, acting CEO of FADA, joins Laura Todd to share how the company went from a blank page in 2024 to operating its first satellite on orbit - and why, with technology increasingly accessible, the real differentiator is the ability to execute.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/wsbw-2026-jeff-thornburg-of-portal-on-solar-thermal-propulsion-and-buying-an-entire-rocket/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77932 From World Space Business Week in Paris, Portal Space Systems CEO Jeff Thornburg joins Torsten Kriening to explain why he bought an entire SpaceX rocket, how solar thermal propulsion enables MEO-to-LEO transfers in under three hours, and why the future of deep space is nuclear.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/wsbw-2026-pieter-fossel-of-hydrosat-on-thermal-intelligence-and-removing-the-cover-of-darkness/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77928 From World Space Business Week in Paris, Hydrosat CEO Pieter Fossel joins Torsten Kriening to unveil the Osiris constellation - 25-metre thermal resolution across a 340 km swath - and explain why thermal intelligence, visible day and night, removes the cover of darkness.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/spacewatchgl-recap-europe-signs-the-blueprint-then-someone-asked-who-was-missing/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77840 ESA signed two competing architecture studies for the EU's future Earth Observation Governmental Service - one led by Leonardo, one by ICEYE. Two hours later, a question from the floor exposed who wasn't in either consortium. From the final day of World Space Business Week and the Summit on Earth Observation Business.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/wsbw-2026-day-4-from-the-arc-de-triomphe-a-grant-is-not-a-customer/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77889 From a chilly Arc de Triomphe on the final day of World Space Business Week, Niels Buus and Torsten Kriening review the week - the shift from innovation to scaling, IRIS² under contract, Europe's production capacity gap, solar thermal propulsion, and why a grant is not a customer.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/wsbw-day-3-someone-has-to-build-it-laura-todd-and-torsten-kriening/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77837 Day three at World Space Business Week: Laura Todd and Torsten Kriening open SPIN with a frank review — more networking and real business being done, unresolved questions about where funding lanes lie, and why IRIS² has finally given Europe a blueprint for scaling up.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/sdss-paris-mg-michael-traut-on-the-european-space-component-command-and-solving-interoperability/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77827 From SDSS at World Space Business Week in Paris, Major General Michael Traut, Commander of the German Space Command, joins Torsten Kriening to explain where the European Space Component Command really stands, why interoperability is the domain's biggest challenge, and how a German-led protocol stack could solve it.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/spacewatchgl-recap-sdss-day-one-sovereignty-is-not-self-sufficiency/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77779 Europe wants sovereign space capability, and Europe needs capability now. Those two sentences do not point in the same direction. From day one of the Space Defense & Security Summit in Paris: Germany's bid to become Europe's integrator, IRIS² built for crisis, and an industry quietly redefining what sovereignty means.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/spacewatchgl-recap-wsbw-day-one-the-money-is-here-the-business-models-arent-finished/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77692
Written by Torsten Kriening
Five days after the International Space Summit set Europe's ambition, WSBW spent Monday asking who pays for it. Aschbacher confirmed ESA will put a crew transportation decision to ministers in Rome. The financing panel confirmed many listed space companies trade well below IPO. And from Riyadh to Luanda, two very different answers to what sovereignty actually means. Torsten Kriening's day one recap from Paris.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/wsbw-2026-pacome-revillon-of-novaspace-on-the-next-cycle-of-space-innovation/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77689 From the opening of World Space Business Week 2026 in Paris, Novaspace's Pacôme Revillon joins Laura Todd to argue that "new space" is now a decade old - and that a second cycle of innovation is beginning, shaped by sovereignty, orbital data centres, AI, and an industry finally reaching scale.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2026/09/wsbw-2026-morning-show-niels-buus-torsten-kriening-on-europes-move-from-vision-to-delivery/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=77686 From the 29th World Space Business Week in Paris, Torsten Kriening and Niels Buus open SpaceWatch.Global's coverage - reflecting on a European turning point where funding, political will and mature technology converge, and asking the question that now matters most: who can actually deliver at scale?]]>