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Astroscale Japan Inc., a subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”), a satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability Company, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have started concept co-creation activities for a satellite refueling service under the JAXA Space Innovation through Partnership and Co-creation (J-SPARC). The aim is to explore concepts for a fuel delivery service for one year toward realizing space sustainability. The mission concept will be to provide refueling service on orbit to satellites that are both prepared and unprepared to be refueled.

On Nov. 30th, 2022, for the 6th episode of Space Cafè Italy, Editor in Chief Dr. Emma Gatti had the opportunity to interview  Giorgio Saccoccia, the president of the Italian Space Agency, just few days after the ESA Ministerial Council, which was held in Paris on Nov. 22 and 23.

Space Café "Law Breakfast with Steven Freeland" will analyse current space developments with a legal focus. It will, at the same time discuss and ‘demystify’ the law for everyone.

Dawn Aerospace, a New Zealand space-transportation company, has announced $20 million in funding from Icehouse Ventures, one of its largest-ever investments in a New Zealand company, in addition to support from GD1 and Movac.

Launch integration and mission management services provider TriSept, and zero-trust cybersecurity solutions provider for next generation space systems, SpiderOak, entered into a strategic partnership to implement a comprehensive end-to-end security system capable of keeping critical commercial-, government-, space- and ground operations protected from intentional interference and attacks, TriSept said.

The United Arab Emirates Space Agency and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed a Statement of Strategic Intent and Cooperation to support the creation of a vibrant, sustainable, competitive, and innovative space sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

SpaceX is planning to use its second-generation Starlink satellites for its  Coverage Above and Beyond connectivity project with T-Mobile smartphones, according to an application the company filed with the FCC.  T-Mobile and SpaceX announced their Coverage Above and Beyond plan to provide coverage in most places in the US, including many previously unreachable remote locations.

Our Space Café Scotland by Angela Mathis took place on Thursday, 24th November. Angela, CEO of ThinkTank Maths was joined by panelists to talk about Scotland’s Space Sustainability Roadmap. Space offers both economical and investment opportunities. It enables humanity to watch what we are doing to the planet in real time and do something about it.

SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present: The Space Café Podcast #69: Carlo Buontempo - Copernicus Climate change and an unbiased look at the state of our world. Episode 069 features a special guest: Carlo Buontempo. Carlo Buontempo is the Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service at Copernicus ECMWF. He is an expert on climate change and has been working in the field for many years. 

Isar Aerospace and the German Space Agency at DLR have announced the selection of payloads for the company’s launch vehicle, Spectrum's second flight, planned for 2023-2024. The announcement came at the first German Small Satellite conference on December 6 2022.