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In this Space Café Radio – part of our Space for Business series - SpaceWatch.Global 's Chiara Moenter spoke with Nicolas Peter, Professor in Space Policy and International Affairs and Head of the International Space University's Space Policy and Entrepreneurship Lab about his lectures and his field of experience in Space Policy.

In this Space Café Radio – on tour in Berlin - SpaceWatch.Global publisher Torsten Kriening spoke with Greg Kushnir, Founder and CEO and Andrew Wallace, Commercial Director of EMROD while they have been on a road trip in Europe. You will hear about the next level of long-range wireless energy transmission.

This Space Café Scotland will feature movers and shakers from the Scottish Space Ecosystem in conversation with Angela Mathis, CEO of ThinkTank Maths and a friend of SpaceWatch.Global. "Building a Spaceport is more difficult than building a Rocket" - Angela Mathis in conversation with Frank Strang.

In this Space Café Radio, SpaceWatch.Global Senior Editor Viktoria Urban spoke with Dora Babocs, a Hungarian Space enthusiast, and medical student, who studies astronomy and planetary science BSc and is a future astronaut about her story, and the wider space.

Our Space Cafe WebTalk “33 minutes with Catherine Kavvada - Secure connectivity and Space Traffic Management made by Europe” took place on Tuesday, 5th April. Catherine Kavvada is a director for Innovation and outreach at the Directorate General for Defence Industry and Space (DG DEFIS) at the European Commission in Brussels. Kavvada is a trained lawyer

Arianespace has been awarded a launch contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) on behalf of the European Commission, to launch Sentinel-1C in the first half of 2023 on Vega-C, Arianespace said. The 2.3-tonne satellite, will be deployed in a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 690 km.

SpinLaunch has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA according to which SpinLaunch will develop, integrate, and fly a NASA payload on the company’s Suborbital Accelerator Launch System. This will provide valuable information to NASA for potential future commercial launch opportunities.

Orbit Fab and Neutron Star Systems (NSS) established a cooperative agreement for co-development of satellite refuelling solutions with green propellants, NSS said. Under the agreement the companies will combine NSS’ propellant-agnostic electric propulsion technology with Orbit Fab’s refuelling interfaces and tankers. This will enable increasing the range of refuellable propellants.

The Indian Women in Space Conference is a first-of-its-kind gender minority-focused space conference taking place virtually in India. It is headlined by WoAA (Women of Aeronautics and Astronautics) India started in August 2020. The aim of the conference is to bring together women and gender minorities from diverse backgrounds of space art, engineering, astronomy, industry,

Astroscale received a funding award from ESA who have selected the company in the UK to lead a collision-avoidance study that is part of ESA’s Collision Risk Estimation and Automated Mitigation (CREAM) activities in the Space Safety Program.  The company's UK team will partner with GMV and OneWeb to develop methods and solutions for effective collision avoidance management