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Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: Public Health Is On Our Minds. Here’s How It Applies To Outer Space.
By Jessica West The number of threats to the security of outer space is growing. Reports on global counter-space capabilities released at the end of March by the Secure World Foundation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies indicate that the range of capabilities that can interfere with and …
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Perspective On US Space Resources Executive Order: Peter Marquez On The Need For The EO
On 6 April 2020, US President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) on Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources. This order addresses US policy regarding the recovery and use of resources in outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies. Starting today, …
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Perspective On US Space Resources Executive Order: Kazuto Suzuki On Japan’s Likely Support
On 6 April 2020, US President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) on Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: The Importance Of Space Science And Technology In Africa
Space science and space exploration are generally undertaken for the benefit of humanity and thus are normally regarded as a public good provided at a cost to national governments.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Share: ExoMars2020 – How Coronavirus Played A Part In Postponement Of Mars Mission
In the five decades since we first started sending spacecraft to Mars, exploration of the red planet has had a poor record of success. It is only in the last few years that we have come to expect that the number of successes greatly outweighs the failures.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Share: Apps In Space? It’s Possible With The NanoSat MO Framework
Modern software development for spacecraft is very conservative and limited to a small set of experts in the industry. This is due to various existing constraints on space hardware and to the typical criticality of space missions.But the landscape is changing, particularly where CubeSats are concerned. These small satellites have become very popular in recent years, causing space components to become smaller and cheaper, and therefore making them accessible to a wider number of organizations.
Read More »Space Café WebTalk Recap: “33 minutes with Raphael Roettgen”
This Space Café WebTalk happened on 7 April 2020, featuring Raphael Roettgen, Managing Director and Founder of E2MC, in conversation with Torsten Kriening, co-publisher of SpaceWatch.Global and COO of ThorGroup GmbH.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Innovation: Introducing The Serbian Case For Space Foundation
In Serbia, space governance, space technology, space law and their significance tend to be linked to science fiction or perceived as an expensive and, more importantly, as an exclusive realm only a select few superpowers can take part in.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Feature: Secure World Foundation’s Global Counterspace Capabilities Report – An Excerpt
SpaceWatch.Global is proud to republish this excerpt from the 2020 edition of Secure World Foundation's Global Counterspace Capabilities: An Open Source Assessment, edited by Dr. Brian Weeden and Ms. Victoria Samson.
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