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Scott Pace leaves U.S. National Space Council

In the not-so-distant future, some country’s leader will be forced to answer the following question – will they passively allow the citizens and military forces of their nation to be targeted, with impunity, by the space forces of an adversary nation? 

Space financing finished 2020 on a strong note, with December being the third best month of the entire year, raising a total of about US$560 million,

U.S. SDA awards $150 million launch contract to SpaceX

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Space Commerce (OSC) will finally get its chance to demonstrate to the rest of the space community its value-added in taking stewardship of civil space situational awareness and space traffic management, as was indicated in National Space Policy Directive #3, signed on June 18th of 2018. This will be through a Congressionally-mandated Space Traffic Management Pilot (STMP) program to develop an initial Open Architecture Data Repository (OADR). 

Astrobotic’s CubeRover successfully completed more than 150 mobility tests inside a 120-ton enclosure designed to mimic the surface of the Moon.

Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative new format: Space Café “Black Ops by Ralph Thiele #02” on 14 January 2021 at 4:00 pm CET.

Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuringMahmoud Abu Wasel, Vice-President of The Hague Institute for Global Justice. This event will take place on 12 January 2021 at 4:00 pm CET.

by Blaine Curcio SpaceWatch.Global asked its friends, staff and contributors to review 2020 and provide an outlook into 2021. These personal reviews are being published during the holiday season. This is the review of Blaine Curcio. Everyone would agree that 2020 was in many ways exceptional. There were vastly fewer …

Voyager to acquire ISS heavy user and pioneer Nanoracks