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Astrobotic, part of the Blue Origin National Team developing space robotics technology for lunar and planetary missions, announced on Friday a contract win for NASA’s Artemis program. The contract is to develop and provide human and large cargo lunar landing services to support America’s return to crewed exploration of the Moon.

The Spaceport Company has successfully tested its mobile floating spaceport prototype yesterday by conducting the first-ever commercial rocket launches from U.S. territorial waters. This is because the Company launched multiple rockets in one day from a modified ship located in the Gulf of Mexico. As a result, it proved the potential for offshore spaceports to ease congestion at existing launch ranges and expedite the delivery of satellites to orbit.

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

At day 2 of GLOC 2020 in Oslo, Torsten Kriening spoke with Jean-Francois Gauthier of GHGSat about their capabilties and their current and upcoming assets in space.

L3Harris Technologies has received an Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) contract to provide technology, including modeling and simulation studies, that will help characterize and predict human mobility. As a result, L3Harris will support the Hidden Activity Signal and Trajectory Anomaly Characterization (HAYSTAC) program by laying the groundwork for generating and analyzing human activities that produce data captured by GPS, Bluetooth, and other systems. The goal of modeling and simulation research is to help transform future autonomous systems.

This Space Café Canada will feature James Slifierz, Co-founder and CEO of SkyWatch, a Canadian space company that strives to put outer space to work for humanity by making commercial Earth observation data accessible to everyone.

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has signed a ten-year contract with the low Earth orbit satellite communications company OneWeb to build and manage a new OneWeb Satellite Network Portal (SNP) in Yellowknife, NW, Canada. This new SNP will deliver increased bandwidth, performance, and resiliency to all OneWeb services active today across Northern Canada.

In this  Space Café Radio - SpaceWatch.Global publisher Torsten Kriening spoke with Andrew Faiola, Commercial Director of Astroscale Ltd., the UK and European subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings Inc. , the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability,

Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) has successfully launched four private astronauts from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station (ISS). The Ax-2 crew is now in orbit following a 5:37 p.m. EDT liftoff. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is now anticipated to dock to the space-facing port of the ISS Harmony module. around 9:16 a.m. (EDT) on Monday, May 22.

The President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Australia have reached an agreement-in-principle on Technology Safeguards. The White House disclosed this partnership through a press release on both Nation's Joint Leaders’ Statement.