Landing on the moon 50 years ago was a major achievement. But, as Jessica West writes, renewing a space race without checks and balances only spells trouble.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Op’ed: No Tardigrades Here by Laura Montgomery
As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Laura Montgomery, we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. This is "No Tardigrades Here", originally published 22 August 2019.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Interviews: Dr. Val Munsami of South African National Space Agency
Formed in 2010, the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) has been making huge strides forward. Though the Agency was only founded nine years ago, South Africa's involvement in space goes back to the second half of the 20th century, with projects that included observing the Earth’s magnetic field at stations around Southern Africa.
Read More »Optus Business and Myriota Form First-of-its-Kind Agreement to Bolster Remote IoT Coverage
Optus Business today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Myriota, the global leader in nanosatellite Internet of Things (IoT), with a view to providing remote and regional connectivity for IoT devices and applications.
Read More »ESA Searches for Ideas on Exploration of Lunar Caves
The European Space Agency (ESA) is asking for ideas on how to explore lunar caves.
Read More »Hughes Partners with Startup to Create New Solutions for Extending LTE Coverage Using Helicopters, UAVs
HUGHES, in partnership with Virtual Network Communications will develop new joint solutions to extend mobile network connectivity using an integrated combination of VNC’s deployable LTE technology with Hughes JUPITER™ and HM satellite systems.
Read More »MDA Selected to Build Robotic Interfaces for Canadarm3 on NASA-led Gateway
MDA has been awarded two contracts from the Canadian Space Agency for work on Phase A of the Gateway External Robotic Interfaces project.
Read More »Astrobotic Selects United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur Rocket to Launch its First Mission to the Moon
Astrobotic has selected United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket in a competitive commercial procurement to launch its Peregrine lunar lander to the moon in 2021.
Read More »Get SAT and U.K.’s GRC Create Strategic Cooperation Relationship
Get SAT and GRC (Global RadioData Communication Ltd.) have annouced a strategic partnership that will see the firms target the U.K. security, defense and government markets with communications on-the-move (CoTM) broadband platforms based on Get SAT's industry-leading, powerful terminals.
Read More »Blue Canyon Technologies Joins Viasat’s Ecosystem to Build First-Ever Link 16 Low-Earth Orbit Spacecraft
Small satellite manufacturer Blue Canyon Technologies has been selected by Viasat to join its team supporting the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles XVI pilot program to test the first-ever Link 16-capable LEO spacecraft
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