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This Space Café WebTalk will feature Remco Timmermans, Social Media Specialist for Space, in conversation with Torsten Kriening, publisher of SpaceWatch.Global. Live from the International Astronautical Congress 2021 in Dubai. Remco is an experienced space business professional, with 15+ years of experience in business analysis, process improvement, corporate

Der nächste Deutsche im All - ein Gespräch mit Matthias Maurer und Reinhold Ewald. Am 30. Oktober soll ESA-Astronaut Matthias Maurer an Bord eines SpaceX-Raumfahrzeugs zur ISS starten. Wir hatten vorab die Gelegenheit, mit Matthias Maurer über seine letzten Vorbereitungen vor dem Flug, die wesentlichen Unterschiede zwischen der Crew-Dragon und der Sojus

OneWeb launched another 36 satellites, bringing the constellation in orbit to 358, over half of the planned 648 satellites, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite company said. The satellites were launched by Arianespace from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia.

SpaceLink announced it has chosen OHB Systems as the preferred tenderer for the initial constellation of four high-capacity optical relay satellites after a comprehensive tender process. The parties are currently in advanced contract negotiations about the manufacturing and delivery of the initial constellation.

Since the dawn of the first ‘Space Age’ in 1957, space-related technologies have transformed our lives, revolutionising communications, medicine, navigation, finance, agriculture and computing, to name but a few. Space is an important element of critical infrastructure to support the world economy, international trade and investment, strategic thinking, military strategy, national security,

Portuguese Space Agency (Portugal Space), and the Portuguese Army signed a partnership protocol marking the first day of rocket launches by competing teams of the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC), the Agency reported. The competition will carry on until 17th October with 20 teams, 20 rockets and 400 enrolled students.

During this week’s SpaceCafé, SpaceWatch.Global publisher Torsten Kriening caught up with leading global politics and international law expert from the University of British Columbia’s Department of Political Science and co-director of the Outer Space Institute, Professor Michael Byers on the urgent need for countries to agree to ban anti-satellite weapons tests.

SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 38th episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Joellen Russell, Mayday Mayday, an oceanographer's passionate cry for help to the space community. Episode 038 features a special guest Joellen Russell. 

Orbofleet’s report titled ‘Global Non-Geostationary (NGSO) Satellite Communications Market’ has found potential US$300 billion opportunities across multiple market verticals between 2021-2035. The 2021 edition report taps onto the most significant and promising markets that are set to flourish with the growth of satellite broadband connectivity.

Iceye on Copernicus: the company announced it has become a Contributing Mission to the Copernicus Programme, the largest Earth observation programme in the world. According to the agreement, Copernicus services will have access to Iceye’s synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imagery. The collaboration will be funded by the European Commission and operated by ESA.