Features

Andreas Schepers spoke with Germany's top space traveller, the head of the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Dr. Walther Pelzer. The German Space Agency at DLR, on behalf of the German Federal Government, is responsible for Germany’s co-development and implementation of the space programme at the national, European, and international level. 

This Space Café Young Global Talents will feature Prof Michelle Hanlon, Space Lawyer, Co-founder For All Moonkind, Co-Director Air and Space Law at UMiss, USA, in conversation with Markus Payer, Editor-in-Chief of SpaceWatch.Global and Frederik Wissner, representative of ELSA Frankfurt am Main, Germany. ELSA is the renowned European Law Students Association.

This Space Café The Netherlands will feature Dr. Hilde Stenuit, seasoned researcher, and team leader for Space Applications Services, in conversation with Chiara Moenter, host of Space Cafe The Netherlands and co-founder “SDG18 – Space for All” and Bano Barzingi, student of Global Project and Change Management.

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.

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 …