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SpinLaunch conducted a successful first test flight of their alternative method of launching spacecraft into orbit in New Mexico last month, CNBC reported. The launch system uses kinetic energy with a centrifuge spinning the rocket faster than the speed of sound before releasing.

This Space Café WebTalk will feature Christian Hauglie-Hanssen, Director General of the Norwegian Space Agency, in conversation with Torsten Kriening, publisher of SpaceWatch.Global. An update on Norway's space. Christian Hauglie-Hanssen is the Director General of the Norwegian Space Agency ambitions.

Maritime Launch Services is preparing to launch the country’s first commercial spaceport to provide satellite launch services to Canada’s growing commercial space sector. Their first payload services provider will be Nanoracks, Maritime announced. Nova Scotia-based aerospace company, Maritime, unveiled the preliminary designs for the spaceport’s Launch Control Centre (LCC).

In the latest Space Café “Law Breakfast with Steven Freeland”, Steven Freeland and Torsten Kriening welcomed  Joanne Wheeler and Ram Jakhu at the wonderful and historic ‘Press Café in London. Over Danish pastries, cookies, croissants and coffee, the panellists, along with a fantastic audience, engaged in a revealing and insightful discussion dealing with many legal issues

It’s often said that “people have short memories’ when speaking about the economy. It means that somehow, we seem unable to keep a cool head when stock markets are rallying, and the economy is in a bull run. When money seems to be thrown at everything that moves, the fear of missing out (FOMO) keeps people from asking tough questions and sometimes seems to destroy common sense all together.

Near-earth space is a finite resource lacking in holistic management and traffic coordination, becoming increasingly congested with objects, dead and alive, that threaten the safety of satellites that do things we all care about and need, as well as crewed space missions. These space-based services include, inter alia, position, navigation, timing, financial transactions, ...

This Space Café Canada will feature astronomer Aaron Boley and legal expert Michael Byers, Co-Directors of the Outer Space Institute at the University of British Columbia, in conversation with Dr. Jessica West, Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares and a friend of SpaceWatch.Global. Collision course: anti-satellite weapon testing and the crisis of space debris

This Space Café WebTalk will feature Johanna Bergström Roos, in conversation with Torsten Kriening, publisher of SpaceWatch.Global. Rockets and Reindeers - a glimpse into Sweden's northernmost space region. Johanna Bergstrom-Roos is employed at LTU Business AB since October 2011 and is working with Kiruna base.

Today is the launch of the Space Arbitration Association, an association that will focus on providing information and organizing events around the topics of space and international arbitration. The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in space activities, which are expanding not only into new fields such as space tourism but also increasingly involve commercial actors.

NASA successfully launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission this morning on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. The aim of the mission is to demonstrate that sending a large, high-speed spacecraft into the path of an asteroid could change its motion. DART will now deploy its Roll Out Solar Arrays (ROSA) to provide the power needed for its solar electric propulsion system.