NASA will launch a mini asteroid scout mission called NEA Scout with the uncrewed first Artemis testflight in spring, the agency said. The target is 2020 GE, a near-Earth asteroid that is less 18 meters in size; asteroids smaller than 100 meters have never been explored up close before, NASA said. NEA stands for near Earth asteroid.
Read More »Register Today For Our Space Café Russia by Elina Morozova On 4 February 2022
This episode of Space Café Russia will feature Vladimir Agapov, General Designer of joint-stock company Astronomical Scientific Center, Alexander Solntsev, Deputy Head of the Department of International Law at RUDN University, and Valentin Uvarov, CEO of Climate Monitoring Systems LLC.
Read More »Register Today For Our Space Café Italy On 3 February 2022
This Space Café Italy will feature Alessio Grasso, Aerospace & Defense Business Unit Manager of the Dallara Group,in conversation with Dr Emma Gatti, host for Space Cafè Radio and correspondent of SpaceWatch.Global for Italy.How did a historical car racing company make its debut in Space?
Read More »Tom Cruise’s movie producers to build space studio with Axiom
Space Entertainment Enterprise (SEE), co-founded by Elena and Dmitry Lesnevsky, producers of Tom Cruise’s coming space movie, announced plans to attach an Axiom-built film studio and sports arena to the ISS, CNBC reports. SEE-1, the new module, will be attached to Axiom Station, the first commercial module of the ISS, in December 2024.
Read More »Plus Ultra and ispace to deploy infrastructure in lunar orbit
Plus Ultra Space Outposts, a European company developing a lunar satellite constellation, and ispace Europe have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for working together on joint lunar missions, ispace announced. The MoU comprises the deployment of communication and navigation satellites into lunar orbit as early as 2024.
Read More »Space Café WebTalk with Peter Hulsroj: How to get philosophy and physics talking
During this week’s Space Café, SpaceWatch.Global Publisher Torsten Kriening sat down with Peter Hulsroj, a legal consultant for intergovernmental organisations, attorney, specialist in nuclear disarmament, space and international law, and now, author and blogger.
Read More »Register Today For Our Space Café “33 minutes with Dr Jan Frohloff” On 1 February 2022
This Space Café WebTalk will feature Dr. Jan Frohloff, lawyer and independent practitioner advising on dispute resolution and corporate matters in conversation with Torsten Kriening, publisher of SpaceWatch.Global. Space Disputes – Phantom Menace or Return of Justice?
Read More »Satellogic raises US $150M from former treasury secretary
Satellogic announced that private equity firm, Liberty Strategic Capital, led by former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, is investing US $150M into Earth imaging company Satellogic. The funding will help to close a delayed merger with CF Acquisition Corp. V., a special purpose acquisition corporation for the company to go public.
Read More »Harris wants US Space Council to tackle climate crisis
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris charged the National Space Council to focus on the rules and norms governing space, leveraging space to tackle the climate crisis, and building a diverse space and STEM workforce, NASA said. The agency also announced a “strategic, first-of-its-kind partnership" with the European Space Agency (ESA) to observe Earth, its climate and changing environment.
Read More »Radian Aerospace announces US $27.5M in seed funding
Radian Aerospace (Radian), announced that the company recently closed US $27.5M in seed funding. The round was led by venture capital fund Fine Structure Ventures, with investment from EXOR, The Venture Collective, Helios Capital, SpaceFund, Gaingels, Explorer 1 Fund, Type One Ventures among others.
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