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Register Today for our Space Café Italy by Dr. Emma Gatti – 5 April 2023

This Space Café Italy will feature Prof. Luigi Carrino, President of Distretto Tecnologico Aerospaziale della Campania, and Dr.ssa Mariella Pappalepore, the CFO of Planetek Italia, in conversation with Dr Emma Gatti, Editor- in-Chief and correspondent of SpaceWatch.Global for Italy. Southern Space - A view of the Italian Space industry in the southern regions

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Armagh Observatory and Planetarium makes asteroid discovery

Two Unit Telescopes VLT by ESO José Francisco Salgado josefrancisco.org

Armagh Observatory and Planetarium announced on the 22nd of March their findings on how asteroid composition will help to further understand how asteroids form and how best to alter their trajectory. Their research has been studying the outcome of the Double-Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a space mission conducted by NASA and ESA that hit the Didymos-Dimorphos double asteroid last year. 

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Virgin Orbit to Resume Part Operations after Funding

Virgin Orbit

In light of Virgin Orbit's pause operations amidst financial uncertainties, the Launch Company will partly resume operations after nearing a $200 million deal with Venture capital firm Matthew Brown Companies. According to Reuters, the Texas-based company will prevent Virgin Orbit's rocket from bankruptcy via a private share placement. 

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NICFI prolongs public access to satellite images

NICFI landsat satellite

During his visit to Brazil, Norway’s Minister of Climate and Environment, Mr. Espen Barth Eide announced that NICFI’s Satellite Data Program is extended until September 2024. After 2.5 years of the program, it has become evident that public access to high resolution satellite images leads to more effective rainforest protection, Eide said.

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XCAM’s particle contamination monitor funding approved by ESA

XCAM PFO monitor . Credit XCAM

XCAM Ltd, a UK-based designer and manufacturer of digital camera systems, announced on the 22nd of March that they have received significant further funding from ESA for the manufacture of its Space Particle Fall Out (PFO) Monitor. This has come after an eight-year technical development programme where XCAM and ESA have collaborated. Space PFO is due to be ready to launch into space inside a rocket launch vehicle in the summer of 2025. It will be the first instrument to measure particulate contamination inside a rocket. 

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