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Iridium launches global maritime distress and safety service

Astra succeeds small Rocket 3.2 launch from Alaska

SpaceWatch.Global asked its 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 answer of Guy Thomas.

Last week, the Open Lunar Foundation announced a new initiative: Breaking Ground, a lunar resource trust. The purpose of the trust is to steward and demonstrate formal and effective institutional management of lunar resources between different stakeholders. In order to fulfill this goal and explore different resource management regimes, the trust will be purchasing lunar regolith from lunar transport, lander and extractive companies.

NASA and ESA name three Crew-3 astronauts

SpaceWatch.Global asked its staff and contributors to review 2020 and provide an outlook into 2021. These personal reviews are being published during the holiday season. This is Dr. Malcolm Davis, Senior Analyst at  The Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

Rocket Lab to launch NASA's lunar CAPSTONE next year

SiriusXM launches its seventh Maxar-built satellite on SpaceX

SpaceX is the world’s most valuable private space company worth $46 billion, with a recent closing of a $2 billion round of funding among seventy-five investors, according to Bloomberg.

In this week’s first Space Café Summit “Anarchy in Space?”, Prof. Kai-Uwe Schrogl and Ntorina Antoni discussed a variety of topics on space security and space safety.