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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.

The European Investment Fund (EIF) announced today that it is committing €60 million in equity to Alpine Space Ventures (ASV), a German-based venture capital fund focusing on the NewSpace sector. With this investment, ASV’s committed capital passes the €100 million mark, bringing it closer to the target of €160 million, expected to be achieved later this year. 

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.

SpaceWatch.Global CEO Torsten Kriening spoke with Harshbir Sangha from the UK Space Agency at GLOC 2023 about the work the UK offers on space climate change research.

On the second day of GLOC 2023, Dr Emma Gatti spoke with Dr. Anke Pagels-Kerp, CTO of Space Research at DLR about the upcoming CO2 satellite mission.

Inmarsat Government and Sofant Technologies have announced a collaboration on a state-of-the-art phased array antenna that will enhance connectivity, reliability, and performance in airborne operations. The collaboration aims to revolutionize the communication capabilities of airborne platforms. As a result, the collaboration will combine their respective expertise to develop an innovative solution that addresses the Government airborne users’ growing demand for efficient, low-profile communication systems.

The Global Space Conference On Climate Change (GLOC) 2023 kickstarted today with three important plenary sessions. The overarching theme of the sessions revolved around the necessary steps to take to convert the enthusiasm around addressing climate change with space technology to actionable solutions to prevent and mitigate climate disasters.

Raytheon Technologies' Collins Aerospace business has announced its plan to bring unlimited data to the customers of Vista, a private aviation group. Using Collins' LuxStream, which runs exclusively on the SES's high-throughput satellite (HTS) network, Vista customers can now enjoy fast, reliable, unlimited internet access for the duration of their flights.

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.