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Azercosmos, the premier satellite operator in the South Caucasus, has signed an extended partnership agreement with Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, to increase capacity and coverage across Africa.

Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring Dr. Natália Archinard, Deputy Head of the Science, Education, Transport and Space Section at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, and Chair of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS). This event will take place on 22 September 2020 at 4:00 pm CEST.

August 2020 sure proved that a lot of private capital can flow into the space sector, with a total of US$2.2 billion. Sure, SpaceX represented over 80% of this total – the company’s latest filing shows $1.9 billion raised of a potential total of $2.066 billion – but even without it, the sector total would have come to almost $400 million, distributed across geographies and subsectors.

US Department of Defense Announces New DARPA Director Victoria Coleman

Ignacio Chechile joins ReOrbit as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) on September 1, 2020, to lead the technology development of the company’s modular and reusable microsatellite platforms, targeting in-orbit assembly and servicing.

Astrobotic Awarded More Than $1 Million to Advance CubeRover Payloads

Gilat posts lower revenues and loss but confident for second half 2020

The US Space Development Agency (SDA) announced two contract awards for the first generation of the Transport Layer.

SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 10th episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Nicole Stott - Space Shuttle Astronaut Extraordinaire. NASA astronaut Nicole Stott spent 104 days in space and remembers her two space flights aboard the legendary space shuttle that changed her life.

Russia’s company Glavkosmos (an affiliate of Roscosmos corporation) has handed over to Indian customers the results of its research into the possibility of using Russian flight equipment on India’s crewed spacecraft Gaganyan, Glavkosmos CEO Dmitry Loskutov told TASS on the sidelines of the forum Army-2020.