Asia Pacific

Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring Dr. Bhavya Lal, Researcher at IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute.  This event will take place on 29 September 2020 at 4:00 pm CEST.

Gilmour Space contracts Space Machines Company for first Australian Eris launch

Thales signs up as prime contractor for Indonesian SATRIA satellite

Exolaunch to Deliver SALSAT into Orbit for the Technische Universität Berlin

Astroscale UK appoints Sharon Parker-Lines as Operations Director

China's secretive reusable spacecraft back to landing site

Rocket Lab launches "First Light" photon satellite

It is an exciting time for space enthusiasts, particularly those who aim for economic development of the Moon. The Moon is awash in new flights, plans, and missions over the next decade – and very likely, far beyond that. A recent graphic by the ESA (below) captures the significant number of missions to the Moon coming more than the institutional or traditional governmental side.

The US Naval Intelligence Maritime Intelligence Integration Office (NMIO) recently hosted a virtual meeting sponsored by NATO ACT (Allied Command Transformation) on tools being used to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU). 

In this week’s Space Cafè WebTalk, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Former Director General of the European Space Agency talked about space innovation in Europe.