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Chinese astronauts performed a spacewalk to add the finishing touches to a robotic arm on the Tiangong space station. Astronauts Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming installed foot stops and a workbench on the station's robotic arm, said the China Manned Space Agency.

British operator OneWeb’s 34 new satellites launched into space on a Russian Soyuz rocket operated by Arianespace. The take-off was at 22.13 GMT Saturday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Roscosmos space agency and Arianespace said. It was the fifth launch of OneWeb satellites this year, with the last one being in July.

In this week’s Space Café Brazil, Ian Grosner talked with Dr. Clezio Marcos De Nardin, director of the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE), about the 60 Years of the institute. Dr. Nardin started by talking about the very beginning of the Brazilian space program in the 1960s when the Organizing Group of the National Commission on Space Activities (GOCNAE) was created.

The leaders of BRICS Space Agencies have signed an agreement to share remote sensing satellite data the Indian Space Research Organisation reports. The heads of space agencies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa signed the agreement via video meeting.

Scientists discovered a contingent of young stars and star-forming gas clouds sticking out of one of the Milky Way's spiral arms. The splinter-like feature stretches some 3,000 light-years, and is the first major structure identified with such a different orientation to that of the arm’s.

This Space Café Russia will be hosted by Elina Morozova, Executive Director of the Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications and a friend of SpaceWatch.Global , in conversation with Igor Porokhin, a Russian attorney-at-law and partner of legal firm InSpace Consulting known for having provided legal support for contracts for flights to the International Space Station

SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 33rd episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: John Mankins - Energy from orbit, new ways of propulsion and Star Trek type spaceships. Episode 034 features a special guest John Mankins. John Mankins has been with NASA and JPL for most of his professional life

This Space Café Scotland will feature movers and shakers from the Scottish Space Ecosystem in conversation with Angela Mathis, CEO of ThinkTank Maths and a friend of SpaceWatch.Global. Scotland in Space – a Universe of Opportunity for All. Angela Mathis will explore with her guests how Scotland’s vision to build a vibrant Space economy is providing opportunities and inspiration for many.

Federal election 2021 - the future of space in Germany. On the occasion of the federal elections, we are starting a special edition of Space Café Germany. We have invited specialist politicians from selected democratic parties represented in the Bundestag to discuss the future of space travel in Germany with us.

The upper stage of the Ariane 5 which will launch the James Webb Space Telescope into space later this year is on its way from Bremen in Germany to the European Spaceport in French Guiana, ArianeGroup said. James Webb will be the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched.