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This piece describes the challenges posed by the increasing proliferation of orbital space debris, as well as debris falling back to Earth. It describes how a ‘business as usual’ case going forward threatens to result in outer space becoming less accessible and navigable, thus compromising future space activities. It describes the existing legal and governance frameworks that has been developed

As the leading analytics and consulting company focusing on the African space and satellite industry, Space in Africa has released the African Space Industry Annual Report, 2021 Edition. The report was built on the two previous editions to analyse space activities across the continent, industry dynamics, and trends,

Thales Alenia Space and Hellas Sat demonstrated the operation of a 5G satellite-backhauled network in Greece, Thales said. The experiment consisted in backhauling the connection between a 5G core network and the Hellas Sat 3 / Inmarsat S EAN satellite, Thales said.

The U.S. space agency NASA and Northrop Grumman of Dulles, Virginia, concluded their contract to develop the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) for the Moon gateway, NASA said. As part of NASA’s Artemis program, HALO will be a critical way station and outpost in the orbit around the Moon. The firm, fixed-price contract is valued at $935 million, NASA said.

LEOcloud and Ramon.Space partner to build a satellite-hosted cloud, the companies announced. They entered into a partnership to develop satellite-hosted cloud edge computing capabilities for commercial, government and military customers, the companies said.

As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and ERC Space and Robotic Events, we have been granted permission to publish content regarding the European Rover Challenge 2021. We are pleased to present “European Rover Challenge 2021 with two formulas and a Martian volcano”.

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They will try again: Israel’s SpaceIL, the company that lost the Beresheet satellite on the Moon two years ago, raised $70 million for its second mission in 2024, media reports and SpaceIL said. SpaceIL estimates the total cost of the mission at $100 million.

He made it: Sir Richard Branson and three colleagues from his space company Virgin Galactic took the round trip to the edge of space. Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity successfully reached space yesterday, completing the company’s fourth rocket-powered spaceflight.

Yahsat offers 976 million shares for € 0.63 per share, the company said, representing 40% of the company’s share capital; it expects a market capitalization of € 1.54 billion upon listing, the company said. The offering was multiple times oversubscribed, Yahsat said, with “significant demand” from institutional investors, individuals and others in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).