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SpaceX has engaged NASA's former human spaceflight boss Kathy Lueders to help oversee the development of the company's moon and Mars rocket called Starship, according to Reuters. This represents another essential hire for SpaceX as it aims to develop and use Starship for landing NASA astronauts on the moon within the next decade.

Our Space Café “33 minutes with Enrico Stoll and Jens Berdermann – beauty and dangerous aspects of space” took place on Tuesday, 9th May. Prof. Enrico Stoll, Space Cafe returner and the Chair of Space Technology at the Technical University Berlin. And Dr. Jens Berdermann, the Acting Director and Department Head of the DLR Institute for Solar-Terrestrial Physics in Neustrelitz an hour and half north of Berlin. The space cafe took place at the 14th IAA Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth System Observation.

Our Space Café Scotland by Angela Mathis took place on Friday, 28th April. Angela, CEO of ThinkTank Maths was joined by three panelists to talk about where Energy and Finance meet the Scottish Space sector.

It is day 1 of the newly established Munich New Space Summit. Torsten Kriening gives an overview on the day and the talks to expect.

In this Space Café Radio - SpaceWatch.Global Editor-in-Chief Dr Emma Gatti spoke with Bob Richards, Vice President of Space at TTTech.

Liftero has successfully closed a pre-seed funding round.

The Maldives Space Research Organisation (MSRO) is working together with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to empower young people to take climate action. Within the collaboration, Maldivian young professionals and students received the opportunity to attend the Maldives’ first space conference, the Space for Island Nations Conference (SINC), which took place from 2-4 May at Crossroads Maldives.

The JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission control center in Darmstadt, Germany has successfully enabled the deployment of the spacecraft's ice-penetrating Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna.

Terran Orbital Corporation has announced that the Terran Orbital-developed Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 (PTD-3) satellite enabled a successful 200 gigabits per second space-to-ground optical link.

The 2023 edition of Space Resources Week (SRW) took place on 19-21 April at Luxexpo The Box and online.