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In this Space Café Radio - SpaceWatch.Global's Marketing Intern Jim Murphy spoke with Jeffrey Manber, the President of International and Space Stations at  Voyager Space. Voyager Space is dedicated to develop the world's first private free-flying space stations and continue to build the commercial infrastructure of space in orbit and beyond.

GomSpace has entered a convertible loan agreement of EUR 5 million (SEK 53.6 million) and announced the board of directors' intention to resolve a rights issue of between EUR 9.2 to 11.5 million (SEK 100 to 125 million). The company will announce the terms and conditions for the Rights Issue following a board decision to carry out the Rights Issue, indicatively during the first quarter of

CEO and Publisher Torsten Kriening and Chief Editor Emma Gatti had the chance to interview Dr. Josef Aschbacher, ESA's Director General, the day after the end for the Paris CM-22. Listen up the radio interview, or read the shorter version here below.

In this special episode of SpaceWatch.Global Editor in Chief Dr. Emma Gatti and  Publisher Torsten Kriening spoke with Josef Aschbacher, Director General of the European Space Agency ESA about the results of the ESA Ministerial Meeting in Paris in November 2022.

Space systems have become critical enablers for a wide variety of applications which are of paramount importance to the functioning of national and regionally/globally integrated economies, as well as the operations of Armed Forces.

Airbus and ArianeGroup have signed a contract covering the next transition batch of Ariane 6 large carbon fibre structures, Airbus said. Under the contract, Airbus will manufacture and supply innovative, lightweight, large structures for the next fourteen Ariane 6 launch vehicles.

Eutelsat has appointed Christophe Caudrelier as its Chief Financial Officer, after successfully launching the EUTELSAT 10b. His appointment follows the announcement by Sandrine Téran that she is stepping down as Chief Financial Officer to move on to other professional projects

Human spaceflight services provider Axiom Space, and the Hungarian government’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to advance opportunities in space research and technology development, Axiom said. This is the second agreement between the company and Hungary.

The French National Space Agency CNES (Centre National d'Etude Spatiales), in collaboration with the European Space Agency and Aerospace Valley, organized the ActInSpace hackathon from 18 to 19 November 2022. The international spatial hackathon is dedicated to imagining products and services of tomorrow thanks to space applications, and it simultaneously held in 34 countries and 65 cities on five continents with 1,700 global participants.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced the successful candidates for the ESA class of 2022. The announcement took place at Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris, under the auspices of the Council Meeting at Ministerial Level (CM22).