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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk described a critical situation in a companywide email, regarding the lack of progress in the development of the Raptor engine that is to power the Starship rocket, CNBC reports. “We face genuine risk of bankruptcy if we cannot achieve a Starship flight rate of at least once every two weeks next year,” Musk added.

India’s government told SpaceX to stop taking preorders for their Starlink broadband services as they did not have a license to operate in the country yet, India’s Ministry of Communication stated. Citizens were warned against preordering Starlink as well just nine months after the solicitations began.

In this Space Café Radio - Special on the recent Russian Anti-Satellite Test – SpaceWatch.Global contributing editor Dr. Emma Gatti spoke with her guests about "Is Space an asset, or a weapon?" In this special episode of Space Cafè Radio, we explore the political and strategic implications of the 15th of November 2021 Russian ASAT attack.

In honour of this sacred experience and all of you who know me and have enrolled in this global vision, I, Moriba Jah have partnered with SpaceWatch.Global to run an exciting Space Café series: Moriba’s Vox Populi (Latin for “the people’s voice”) where I intend to choose topics of relevance to space safety, security, and sustainability

Pulsar Fusion has demonstrated its new, MACH-7 green hybrid rocket fuelled with N2O and HDPE from recycled plastic in Gstaad, Switzerland. The engine is capable of launching vehicles to an altitude of several tens of km or powering the upper stage of a rocket into orbit.

SpinLaunch conducted a successful first test flight of their alternative method of launching spacecraft into orbit in New Mexico last month, CNBC reported. The launch system uses kinetic energy with a centrifuge spinning the rocket faster than the speed of sound before releasing.

In this Space Café Radio – on tour in Bremen, SpaceWatch.Global event coordinator Chiara Moenter spoke with Dr Thomas Clayson and Mark Stokes, the co-founders of Magdrive Ltd. They talked about the creation and the initial idea of Magdrive, the barriers to entry of the space sector, future aspirations, the Space Tech Expo in Bremen and their most important take-aways.

This Space Café WebTalk will feature Christian Hauglie-Hanssen, Director General of the Norwegian Space Agency, in conversation with Torsten Kriening, publisher of SpaceWatch.Global. An update on Norway's space. Christian Hauglie-Hanssen is the Director General of the Norwegian Space Agency ambitions.

China launched its third Gaofen-11 reconnaissance satellite on a Long March 4B rocket, Chinese state media reported. The Gaofen satellites form China´s High-resolution Earth Observation System and comprise optical, multispectral and synthetic aperture radar spacecraft.

Greece builds up its national satellite capabilities and received support from the European Space Agency (ESA) to do that. The Greek Ministry of Digital Governance said it will implement its Greek National Satellite Space Project, with the technical support of ESA. The project is part of Greece´s Recovery and Resilience Facility plans