Europe cannot afford to stay out of human spaceflight if it wants to rank as a global political and economic power, the head of the European Space Agency (ESA) said. “It’s not possible that a political and economic power like Europe cannot fly its own astronauts to space,” Josef Aschbacher, Director General of ESA, said at the Paris Air Forum at Le Bourget yesterday.
Read More »U.S. EXIM bank returns to space with SpaceX and Hispasat funding
The U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM) finances SpaceX and Hispasat with more than $80 million, the bank announced. The bank’s board unanimously approved $80.7 million in EXIM financing to support launch services by SpaceX and U.S.-brokered launch and initial in-orbit insurances for Hispasat Canarias,
Read More »Register Today For Our Space Café Germany by Andreas Schepers On 8 July 2021
Isar Aerospace: the Bavarian SpaceX? In this edition of Space Café Germany, we talk to Daniel Metzler, one of the founders and managing directors of Isar Aerospace. Isar Aerospace is considered the German NewSpace startup of the moment. The young company from Munich is building the two-stage Spectrum, a launch vehicle capable of carrying up to one ton of payload into low-Earth orbit.
Read More »WEF and ESA launch new space sustainability rating
The World Economic Forum (WEF) and the European Space Agency (ESA) launched a new Space Sustainable Rating (SSR). The Swiss EPFL Space Center (eSpace) has been chosen to lead and operationalize the SSR, WEF said, it will begin issuing sustainability certifications to mission operators in early 2022.
Read More »Mynaric opens new facility for laser equipment near Munich
Paris, 21 June 2021. – The laser communication startup Mynaric has opened a new facility for the serial production of laser communication equipment for the aerospace sector, the company said. The new production facility is located in the immediate vicinity of Mynaric’s headquarters at the special research airport Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany.
Read More »Register Today For Our Space Café “33 minutes with Prof. Enrico Stoll” On 6 July 2021
This Space Café WebTalk will feature Prof. Dr.-Ing. Enrico Stoll, Chair of Space Technology at the Technical University (TU) Berlin, Germany, in conversation with Torsten Kriening, publisher of SpaceWatch.Global. 30 Years of Small Satellite Development at TU Berlin
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Share: NATO Space by Gen John W. Raymond
As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Joint Air Power Competence Centre, we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. We are pleased to present “NATO Space'', originally published on the Joint Air Power Competence Centre website.
Read More »Moon and Mars take center stage at GLEX conference
The future of the exploration of Moon and Mars took center stage at the IAF Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX 2021) in St. Petersburg, the federation said. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), for example, announced their plans to send a rover to the Moon by 2024/2025.
Read More »Interstellar Lab teams up with 3D-printing company Soliquid to build BioPod on Earth and in space
Interstellar Lab, the French-American company building controlled-environment habitat and crop cultivation modules, has established a partnership with the 3D printing company Soliquid. Founded in 2018 by Jim Rhoné, Impulse Group and Amaury Thomas, Soliquid is backed by Leonard, VINCI’s future of construction acceleration program,
Read More »Russia open for ESA and companies to join lunar project
The Russian state space corporation Roscosmos is in talks with the European Space Agency (ESA) to join the project for a Russian-Chinese lunar station, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin told reporters according to the news agency Interfax. "We are actively in talks with many players.
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