In the past few months, the space industry experienced some new milestones. Civilian astronauts launched into space. Richard Branson flew Virgin Galactic on July 11, 2021. Jeff Bezos flew with Blue Origin on July 20, 2019, and a second flight on October 13, 2021, with the iconic William Shatner. SpaceX’s Inspiration4 launched on Sept 15, 2021,
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Der nächste Deutsche im All - ein Gespräch mit Matthias Maurer und Reinhold Ewald. Am 30. Oktober soll ESA-Astronaut Matthias Maurer an Bord eines SpaceX-Raumfahrzeugs zur ISS starten. Wir hatten vorab die Gelegenheit, mit Matthias Maurer über seine letzten Vorbereitungen vor dem Flug, die wesentlichen Unterschiede zwischen der Crew-Dragon und der Sojus
Read More »OneWeb has more than half of its constellation in orbit
OneWeb launched another 36 satellites, bringing the constellation in orbit to 358, over half of the planned 648 satellites, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite company said. The satellites were launched by Arianespace from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia.
Read More »SpaceLink selects OHB for satellite manufacturing contract
SpaceLink announced it has chosen OHB Systems as the preferred tenderer for the initial constellation of four high-capacity optical relay satellites after a comprehensive tender process. The parties are currently in advanced contract negotiations about the manufacturing and delivery of the initial constellation.
Read More »Planet Labs unveils new imagery satellites
Planet Labs announced the launch of Pelican, a new line of imagery satellites to upgrade the company’s existing constellation of the 21 SkySat spacecraft. With the new, higher-resolution satellites the company can provide faster and near-real time data to customers, Planet said.
Read More »Rocket Lab acquires Advanced Solutions engineering firm
Rocket Lab has acquired Advanced Solutions, a Colorado-based aerospace engineering firm, for $40 million, the company announced. Advanced Solution delivers mission proven space software, mission simulation and test systems, and Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) solutions.
Read More »Blue Origin successfully completes second human spaceflight
Blue Origin successfully completed its second human spaceflight yesterday on board of New Shepard. The flight carried four space tourists, Dr. Chris Boshuizen, Glen de Vries, Audrey Powers, and William Shatner through the Kármán line. Also, on board were the thousands of postcards made by young students for Blue Origin’s foundation, Club for the Future.
Read More »EuRoC 2021 rockets taking off
Portuguese Space Agency (Portugal Space), and the Portuguese Army signed a partnership protocol marking the first day of rocket launches by competing teams of the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC), the Agency reported. The competition will carry on until 17th October with 20 teams, 20 rockets and 400 enrolled students.
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During this week’s SpaceCafé, SpaceWatch.Global publisher Torsten Kriening caught up with leading global politics and international law expert from the University of British Columbia’s Department of Political Science and co-director of the Outer Space Institute, Professor Michael Byers on the urgent need for countries to agree to ban anti-satellite weapons tests.
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