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Acktar Ltd. has announced that it has successfully completed the first-ever coating of fine ceramics for Kyocera Corporation, Japan. Acktar's expertise was necessary to provide a light-absorbing black coating that works in complement with the excellent physical qualities of Kyocera's cordierite components.

This Space Café Israel will feature Ayelet Galili, Chief Financial Officer at Tehiru Space, in conversation with Meidad Pariente, correspondent of SpaceWatch.Global for Israel. Themed: From a youth village to outer space. Ayelet Galili is a highly accomplished and results-driven executive with 15 years of experience in finance, business development, and HR. Expertise in strategic CFO roles, combinininncial acumen with a keen understanding of operational objectives.

The Financial Times Investing In Space Summit < https://ftspace.live.ft.com/agenda > took place in person and online on 05-06 June 2023, under the motto "Balancing optimism with realism". Indeed it was the first significant space investment and financing conference to take place after the rise of interest rates by the US FED, together with other macro headwinds, such as conflict-driven economic deterioration. This thorough and intensive FT conference did a fairly good job of articulating trends and putting the spotlight on both mainstream markets (launchers, constellations) and emerging space activities, Moon included.

OQ Technology and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) have announced their partnership for the launch of the PHI-Demo satellite, part of the Payload Hosting Initiative (PHI). The satellite will carry technologies into space to undergo testing for the very first time, marking a milestone achievement for both organizations.

In the eleventh episode of Space Café Israel, Meidad Pariente is in conversation with Lior Herman, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at TYPE5 Aerospace VC.  The first thing that comes to my mind is that I'm a sci-fi geek, so I'm a fan of Star Trek and all science fiction novels. So that's a lot of, you know, my ideas and creativity is around looking at science, looking at technology, and looking how they can work together in the future to create new solutions and many, many new opportunities and life events. So that's part of me that is not on my LinkedIn profile for sure.

This Space Café Israel will feature Lior Herman, Co-Founder & Managing Director at TYPE5 Space Tech VC and Product Manager at Herman Technologies, in conversation with Meidad Pariente, correspondent of SpaceWatch.Global for Israel: Product Challenges in Space Technology

The Saudi Ministry of Education has approved the teaching of earth and space sciences as part of the curricula for the secondary school system, starting the academic year 1445, corresponding to 2023-24, according to local reports. This is because the ministry aims to cultivate positive attitudes toward space science among male and female students. This will be in accordance with international best practices for academic courses, as well as recent developments and scientific and national standards in this field.

UAE Space Agency announced on the 28th of May the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt, the EMA. The concept plan of the mission to the main asteroid belt began in 2019. The Emirati spacecraft will take a 5 billion km trip to a region between Mars and Jupiter to study asteroids. “The initial idea of what should we do after the Emirates Mars Mission actually started one or two years prior to the launch of the Hope probe,” Sarah Al Amiri, Minister of State for Public Education and Advanced Technology, and chairwoman of the UAE Space Agency, exclusively told The National on Wednesday.

On Thursday, the 25th of May, GLOC2023, Global Space Conference on Climate Change, the first Space conference entirely dedicated to Climate Change closed it’s first edition in Oslo, Norway's capital city. One of the major takeaway points was the need to make data more accessible. “People who work in crucial and critical data should be able to use the data freely,” says Dr Emma Gatti, Editor-in-Chief at SpaceWatch.Global. 

Before the SpaceWatch.Global team attended the reception in the iconic townhall of Oslo, Dr Emma Gatti spote with Andrew Faiola of Astroscale UK and Europa about GLOC 2023 and the signed agreement during the conference