Interview

Thriving in the New Space ecosystem can be very difficult. There is no blueprint, and the best ideas can rise and fall quickly and unpredictably. But still, we endeavour: planning missions, assembling satellites, and building mega-constellations. 

Like all waves, gravitational ones transport energy, producing perturbations. We can visualize them by imagining a rope which we hold at one end and is tightly fixed on the other one; when we give a vertical impulse to it, we produce a perturbation -- a "wave" -- that propagates forward to the other end.

SpaceWatch.Global's COO had the chance to meet Thomas Gruebler, CEO of Orora Technologies in Munich to talk about their business and their vision.

Germany is taking huge steps to foster the national New Space industry. The Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI – Federation of German Industries) and its Head of Security and Raw Materials, Matthias Wachter, are at the forefront of that process. SpaceWatch.Global’s Torsten Kriening talked with Matthias Wachter about Germany’s role in the global space sector, micro launcher, and spaceports.  

Barbara Belvisi is the CEO and founder of Interstellar Lab, a company that builds space-inspired villages here on Earth. Before starting such an unusual venture, she worked as an investor and co-founded a few STEM initiatives in Europe - namely Hello Tomorrow and Hardware Club.

SpaceWatch.Global’s Tiziana Casinelli spoke to Dr. Patrick Henkel , CEO of ANavS (Advanced Navigation Solutions).

SpaceWatch.Globals Torsten Kriening spoke to Andrian Buchi and Joakim Espeland, Co-Founders of QuadSAT, about the business, products and services and future challenges and opportunities.

European Space Imaging is a leading supplier of high-resolution satellite imagery to customers in Europe, North Africa and CIS. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Munich, Germany. SpaceWatch.Global’s Torsten Kriening had the chance to speak with Managing Director Adrian Zevenbergen at SpaceTechExpo Europe in Bremen about the company's business, the earth observation market and the future of that sector.

Strong technical skills and outstanding physical abilities are just some of the qualities space agencies look at during the astronaut selection process. But is that all? Let’s agree that if it was only about physical performance, we would probably resort to robots and AI. Yet, space agencies spend millions on astronaut training programs, making sure they are sending the best candidates for the job. SpaceWatch.Globals Valerie Vlasenko asked ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer what are the most important skills that astronauts need to possess.

As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Luxembourg Space Agency, we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. We are pleased to present “The Future Of Secure Satellite Communications”, originally published on 12 December 2019 at the space-agency.public.lu website