UK companies and research organisations can apply for up to a £200,000 funding to develop technologies and data processing capabilities to help reduce space debris. Orbital congestion and space debris have become infrastructure and potentially life-threatening problems. About 95% of the objects tracked orbiting our planet is space junk.
Read More »Astrolight tests mobile optical ground station
The start-up company Astrolight has performed its first long-range ground test of its mobile optical ground station for LEO satellites. The news comes after KSAT and Astelco Systems announced building an industrialized optical ground station in Greece last year.
Read More »Spire to provide its nanosat data to Eumetsat users
The space-based data and analytics provider Spire Global will provide radio occultation satellite data to Eumetsat, the company said. Eumetsat, the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites – is a satellite agency which gathers, and gives access to, accurate and reliable satellite data on weather, climate, and the environment.
Read More »Space Café WebTalk with Lynette Tan Recap: Meet the trailblazer who is putting Singapore on the space map
After a much-deserved summer break, during this week’s Space Café, SpaceWatch.Global publisher, Torsten Kriening caught up with Chief Executive of Singapore Space & Technology and “this century’s role model for space”, Lynette Tan to talk about Singapore’s role in space and her company’s commercial vision.
Read More »Ispace raises €39 million to invest in lunar missions 2 and 3
Ispace raised nearly €39 million in a Series C funding round, with Incubate Fund as the lead investor, the Japanese startup said. The new round brings ispace’s cumulative total funding to approximately €84.5 million, ispace said, including past Series B, Series A and seed investment, as well as its existing and new bank loan financing announced in June 2021.
Read More »Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo to make history with double Venus flyby
The two spacecraft will fly by Venus just 33 hours apart with Solar Orbiter arriving first on 9th August at 4:42 UTC followed by BepiColombo on 10th August at 13:48 UTC. The missions create a unique opportunity to study the planet’s environment at multiple places at the same time.
Read More »Register Today For Our Space Café “33 minutes with Antonino Salmeri” On 17 August 2021
This Space Café WebTalk will feature Antonino Salmeri, Doctoral Researcher in Space Law at the University of Luxembourg, in conversation with Torsten Kriening, publisher of SpaceWatch.Global. "My Journey from Sicily to the Moon through Space Law" Antonino Salmeri is an Italian attorney at law and a PhD candidate (under the supervision of Professor Mahulena Hofmann)
Read More »UARX Space choses Dawn Aerospace to propulse its OSSIE space tug
UARX Space has selected Dawn Aerospace to be its satellite propulsion supplier for the first OSSIE Mission of the company. OSSIE (Orbit Solutions to Simplify Injection and Exploration) is a space tug able to transport up to 400 kg of small satellites to custom orbits. The orbital transport vehicle has the capacity to carry a series of mission injector (RAMI) deployers for CubeSats.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Column: E2MC Update On Space-Financing Rounds in July 2021
SPAC mergers with space companies made a comeback, with Planet’s and Satellogic’s announced transactions raising almost US$900 million*. Purely private rounds added another US$366 million. Also noteworthy were two public listings in the sector: (1) Seraphim Space Investment Trust raising GBP178.4 million for acquiring stakes held by Seraphim Capital in 15 space companies;
Read More »Meldet Euch heute für unser special Space Café “33 Minuten mit Sabine von der Recke” am 24 August 2021 an
In dieser deutschsprachigen Ausgabe des Space Café WebTalk begrüssen wir Sabine von der Recke, Sprecherin der German Offshore Spaceport Alliance (GOSA), im Gespräch mit Andreas Schepers, Freund von SpaceWatch.Global und Host des Space Café Germany. Deutschland's Raketenstartplatz in der Nordsee. Die German Offshore Spaceport Alliance (GOSA) wurde im Dezember 2020 gegründet
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