SpaceX launched its Transporter-4 mission carrying 40 spacecraft, including CubeSats, microsats, picosats, non-deploying hosted payloads, and an orbital transfer vehicle to deploy spacecraft at a later time. The rideshare mission was the rocket booster’s seventh successful mission.
Read More »Space Café WebTalk: 33 minutes with Laura Anne Edwards – Thoughts on the Future of Space and Earth Recap
The Space Café WebTalk “33 minutes with Laura Anne Edwards - Thoughts on the Future of Space and Earth” took place on Tuesday, 29th March. Laura is an innovation catalyst, named a 2021 Top 50 Leader in Space Tech. Laura is a NASA Datanaut, a core member of the Oxford Space Initiative, TED Resident,
Read More »Register Today For Our Space Café “33 minutes with Ricardo Conde” On 12 April 2022
This Space Café WebTalk will feature Ricardo Conde, President of the Portuguese Space Agency - Portugal Space, in conversation with Torsten Kriening, publisher of SpaceWatch.Global. Portugal's Journey into Space. Ricardo Conde, 55 years old, is the father of two beautiful girls.
Read More »(Re)Visit Europe with European space technologies
The 3rd Cassini Hackathon will focus on preserving Europe’s tourist destinations and the way we access them. Participants will be challenged to develop ideas that support sustainable travel, and promote thoughtful exploration of nature. The aim is to uplift the tourism industry with “resilient and sustainable digital solutions”.
Read More »Happy birthday, Portuguese Space Agency!
The Portuguese Space Agency has just celebrated its third anniversary of existence. The agency is proud that it remained faithful to “making sure that Space can, and does, contribute to the Portuguese population’s economic growth and social well-being.”
Read More »UN bans mercury satellite propellants
The United Nations adopted a provision to phase out the use of mercury as a satellite propellant by 2025 during the Fourth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury, Zero Mercury said. Public interest NGOs (non-governmental organizations) welcomed the ban. Canada and Switzerland played vital roles in having the ban put in place.
Read More »Space Café Germany by Markus Mooslechner Recap: Dr. Ernst Pfeiffer, CEO of HPS GmbH
In that Space Café Germany Dr.-Ing. Ernst Pfeiffer, CEO of HPS High-Performance Space Structure Systems GmbH and spokesman of the German SME in Space Association, talked with our guest moderator Markus Mooslechner, Executive Producer and Author at Terra Mater Studios and Host of the Space Café Podcasts about SME's in the German Space(politics) - an orientation.
Read More »Euroconsult launches Asia Satellite Business Week
Euroconsult announced the launch of its latest summit, Asia Satellite Business Week (ASBW), gathering the global space and satellite industry’s key players in Asia for an opportunity to exchange views, share industry perspectives, and secure partnerships. The event will be co-organized with B2B information provider Informa Tech.
Read More »QuadSAT performs antenna tests with a drone
QuadSAT has worked alongside teams from the ESA’s ESOC mission control centre to complete a measurement campaign of large antennas at Kiruna Earth Station, QuadSAT said. This was the first time that a drone-based system, QuadSAT UAS, was used to measure a 15-metre antenna along with performing tracking tests with it.
Read More »Register Today For Our Space Café Australia by Dr. Annie Handmer On 7 April 2022
Space Cafe Australia: Launching from Down Under. Join Lloyd Damp and our host Annie Handmer for a conversation on space and government. In this upcoming edition of Space Café, we invite you to join host Annie Handmer and her guest Lloyd Damp, CEO of Southern Launch, for a relaxed conversation about Australia’s role in space exploration.
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