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#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: The story behind Estée Lauder’s payload to the ISS

Torsten Kriening January 12, 2021 Features, North America, Opinion, Region, Space, Space Missions

On June 2019, NASA presented the Interim Directive for the use of the ISS for commercial and marketing activities, which makes available 5% of the agency’s annual allocation of crew resources and cargo capability for commercial non-R&D use.

FCC allows SpaceX to put ten Starlink satellites in lower orbit

Markus Payer January 12, 2021 Entrepreneurship, News, North America, Policy and Law, Region, Satcoms, Satellite, Satellite Launch Business, Space

Ten is okay: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted SpaceX to launch ten Starlink satellites into polar orbit.

Boeing to power ISS with six more solar arrays

Markus Payer January 12, 2021 Earth observation, Europe, Government, News, North America, Region, Satcoms, Satellite, Satellite Launch Business, Space, Space Exploration, Space Missions

More power: Boeing provides six more solar arrays to the International Space Station (ISS) to increase the orbiting laboratory’s power supply, the company said.

Register Today For Our Space Café WebTalk “33 minutes with Dr. Peter Martinez” On 26 January 2021

Torsten Kriening January 11, 2021 China, Entrepreneurship, Europe, Events, Features, North America, Policy and Law, Satellite Launch Business, Space, Space Missions, Space Resources

Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring Dr. Peter Martinez, Executive Director of the Secure World Foundation, USA. This event will take place on 26 January 2021 at 4:00 pm CET.

Intelsat orders two OneSat satellites from Airbus

Markus Payer January 11, 2021 Entrepreneurship, Europe, News, North America, Region, Satcoms, Satellite, Satellite Launch Business, Space, Space Missions

Intelsat orders two OneSat satellites from Airbus

#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: Space Traffic Management – Do Not Overcomplicate the Issue

Torsten Kriening January 10, 2021 Europe, Features, North America, Opinion, Policy and Law, Region, Satellite, Space, Space Missions

Space traffic management (STM) is an enabler for reliable, safe space operations – the real objective that the global space community needs to rally around during this unprecedented growth of space system deployments and growth in orbital debris. [See Endnote 1]

Space Café WebTalk Recap: Doug Loverro on Rethinking the Inevitable

Torsten Kriening January 8, 2021 China, Europe, Events, Features, North America, Policy and Law, Region, Russia&CIS, Satellite, Satellite Launch Business, Space Missions, WebTalk Archive

In this week’s Space Cafè WebTalk, Doug Loverro, President at Loverro Consulting, Virgina, USA talked about his feature: "Rethinking the Inevitable: Why We Need to Stop Hoping, and Prepare for Space Warfare", published on SpaceWatch.Global. For decades the international community has tried, and failed, to achieve agreement on treaties aimed at preventing war in space. From the 1980s “Treaty to Prevent an Arms Race in Space”

#SpaceWatchGL Share: ‘War in space’ would be a catastrophe. A return to rules-based cooperation is the only way to keep space peaceful

Torsten Kriening January 6, 2021 Features, Government, Military and Defence, North America, Policy and Law, Region, Satellite, Satellite Launch Business, Space, Space Exploration, Space Missions, SWGL Share

As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Prof. Steven Freeland, we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. This is “‘War in space’ would be a catastrophe. A return to rules-based cooperation is the only way to keep space peaceful”, originally published 30 November 2020 at The Conversation.