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Virgin Galactic Holdings, a vertically-integrated aerospace and space travel company, revealed the cabin interior of its SpaceshipTwo vehicle, VSS Unity, in a virtual event streamed live on YouTube. Aspiring astronauts and space enthusiasts around the world, now have the opportunity to explore the Virgin Galactic cabin design and spaceflight experience through …

C-COM Satellite Systems, a leading provider of mobile auto-deploying satellite antenna systems, announced financial results for the second quarter ended May 31, 2020. The Company has generated revenues of $1,061,665 and a net after tax loss of $466,930 or -1 cent per share. This compared with revenues of $2,566,595 and a …

by Dr Bleddyn Bowen The US National Space Council published a document on 23rd July 2020 titled ‘‘A New Era for Space Exploration and Development’. This is a particularly interesting document, as it is not legally binding, does not make a clear policy statement, nor is one of the periodical …

In this week’s Space Café Special, Serbian Case for Space was in a conversation on “Cyber security and how to protect outer space”. Hosted by Anja Nakarada Pecujlic and Marko Pajovic, Co-founders of Serbian Case for Space Foundation, their guests were: Andrej Petrovski, who is the Director of Tech at SHARE Foundation. He leads the …

In this week’s Space Cafè WebTalk, Niklas Hedman, Chief of the Committee, Policy and Legal Affairs Section of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in Vienna talked about the governance phases under the 60 year history of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space …

The heavy-lift Ariane 5 for Arianespace’s fifth mission of 2020 is now complete, following integration of its three modules at the Spaceport in French Guiana. During activity in Ariane 5’s Final Assembly Building, the upper payload component – containing Galaxy 30 (G-30) and the Mission Extension Vehicle-2 (MEV-2) in a …

LeoLabs, a commercial provider of low Earth orbit (LEO) mapping and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services, announced Costa Rica as the site for its next space radar. “We are delighted to be working with an incredible team in Costa Rica, and proud to bring the first commercial phased-array radar to …

Dr. Greg Autry, of California, will be nominated to be Chief Financial Officer of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Dr. Greg Autry researches and teaches technology commercialization at the University of Southern California where he is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship. He also teaches graduate courses in space …

by Jose Salgado Over 14 million photos are uploaded to the Internet every hour, and 85% of them are taken with a smartphone camera using CMOS active-pixel sensor technology. That tech was born at the NASA JPL – Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where the concept of the first digital camera was …

SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 7th episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Nahum Romero, What the Space industry is missing and why not even Elon is visionary enough Episode 007 features special guest Nahum Romero. Nahum Romero is an artist with a rather unique focus: space …