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These personal reviews are being published during the holiday season.. This is Joerg Kreisel, CEO at JKIC.

Hispasat, the Spanish communications satellite operator, and the Hispatec Group, a leader specialising in software and digitalisation solutions for the agricultural sector, have signed an agreement to promote the use of new technologies in this sector in Europe, the Americas and North Africa.

After a long field-testing campaign the GMV -developed avionics system for PLD Spaces' MIURA 1 launch vehicle has successfully passed its Qualification Acceptance Review (QAR), clearing it for fitting in this suborbital launch vehicle, one of the essential prelaunch conditions.

These personal reviews are being published during the holiday season. This is Torsten Kriening, Chief Operations Officer of ThorGroup and Publisher of SpaceWatch.Global.

SpaceWatch.Global asked its staff and contributors to review 2019 and provide an outlook into 2020. These personal reviews are being published during the holiday season.. This is Dr. Bleddyn Bowen or University of Leicester.Photograph courtesy of some Welsh bloke.

The aim of the OPS-SAT mission, which is being controlled from ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, is to carry out low-risk tests on space software directly in the course of flight. Until now, such in-orbit tests have been avoided for reasons of reliability.

As this exciting year comes to an end, we would like to thank you, our Readers, for all your interest, feedback and the trust you have placed in us.

Spare a thought this Christmas for researchers hunkered down on their Polarstern icebreaker, adrift in the frozen Arctic Ocean. Subjected to temperatures as low as -45 C and the perpetual darkness of the polar winter, they are willing participants in MOSAiC - the world's largest and longest polar research expedition.

Plastimo, a major international player in the boating industry, and Sigfox, the world's leading IoT service provider and first global 0G network operator, have joined forces to offer total geolocation coverage across all oceans from 2020.

CGI announced on 18 December 2019 the completion of the previously announced acquisition by its wholly owned indirect subsidiary CGI Group Holdings Europe Limited of the entire issued and to be issued share capital of SCISYS.