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New forms of access to remote areas of the Earth and outer space are increasingly facilitated by technological and scientific advances now combined with growing privatisation.  With the growing buzz of new outer space activities and the excitement of ‘new frontiers’, there is also a need for sustainable corporate governance in outer space.

Dr. Hilde Stenuit is a seasoned researcher and team leader for Space Applications Services working to provide fast and direct access to space for research and technology users through the ICE Cubes, or International Commercial Experiment Cubes program.

As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Joint Air Power Competence Centre, we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. We are pleased to present “NATO Space - Recognition versus Current Reality”, originally published in the Joint Air Power Competence Centre Journal 31.

José Achache is the founder and CEO of ALTYN, a Geneva-based Swiss company that develops space-related projects such as space security. This week, he and SpaceWatch.Global publisher, Torsten Kriening, discuss trends in space, as well as space warfare and how the industry’s increasing value is increasing the margin for threats that could affect our everyday lives.

by Malak Trabelsi Loeb The case of Climate Change and Food Security When the New York Times Best Seller “Space Chronicles: Facing The Ultimate Frontier” Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked during an interview to quantify the merits of space exploration, he argued that it took him a whole book to …

SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 23rd episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Pascale Ehrenfreund - is there life in space (other than us)? Episode 023 features a special guest Prof. Pascale Ehrenfreund. Pascale Ehrenfreund is an astrophysicist specialising in astrobiology. She is a highly-decorated and deserved expert in the field and there is no getting around her when it comes to the question of whether there is life in space (apart from Earth).

Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring Aarti Holla-Maini, Secretary-General at EMEA Satellite Operators Association, ESOA, Brussels, Belgium. This event will take place on 30 March 2021 at 4:00 pm CEST.

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 8 – 14 March 2021”.

A couple of weeks ago, my son pointed out that the share price of GameStop (GME) was skyrocketing. This resulted in a lively discussion on the merits and woes of trading stock and ended with watching The Big Short together. A great movie about the 2008 financial crisis that I highly recommend.

Integrated circuits, silicon solar cells, better vaccines, better materials, and new plant varieties are some of the benefits of experimenting and manufacturing in microgravity. But in general, achieving microgravity for long-term results is very expensive and for the most part, is heavily subsidized by agencies and governments,