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As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Orbital Gateway Consulting we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. We are pleased to present “Dongfang Hour China Aerospace News Roundup 1 - 7 March 2021”.

Today is International Women’s Day, and, as SpaceWatchers, we use this opportunity to say thank you to all the wonderful women we have the privilege to work with.

Tragic accident: The French billionaire and businessman Olivier Dassault, son of Serge Dassault and co-owner of the sprawling aviation and defense family enterprise, died in a private helicopter crash yesterday.

Excells: Rosanna Hoffmann is the new Executive Secretary of the European Center for Space Law (ECSL), the European Space Agency (ESA) said.

ESA incubator in Switzerland extends space hub mandate

Andreas Schepers spoke with Germany's top space traveller, the head of the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Dr. Walther Pelzer. The German Space Agency at DLR, on behalf of the German Federal Government, is responsible for Germany’s co-development and implementation of the space programme at the national, European, and international level. 

This Space Café Young Global Talents will feature Prof Michelle Hanlon, Space Lawyer, Co-founder For All Moonkind, Co-Director Air and Space Law at UMiss, USA, in conversation with Markus Payer, Editor-in-Chief of SpaceWatch.Global and Frederik Wissner, representative of ELSA Frankfurt am Main, Germany. ELSA is the renowned European Law Students Association.

This Space Café The Netherlands will feature Dr. Hilde Stenuit, seasoned researcher, and team leader for Space Applications Services, in conversation with Chiara Moenter, host of Space Cafe The Netherlands and co-founder “SDG18 – Space for All” and Bano Barzingi, student of Global Project and Change Management.

Join SpaceWatch.Global's new Space Café "Law Breakfast with Steven Freeland" #02 series where global space law experts discuss the legal issues from everyday space activities. This event will take place on 25 March 2021 at 9:30 am CET. Space Café "Law Breakfast with Steven Freeland" will analyze current space developments with a legal focus.

In a blink it seems our lives have become almost completely reliant on space infrastructure and the digital – or cyber - life that has burgeoned from it.  Cyber is here and amassed the “trillions” scenario predicted only a decade ago.  Weather forecasting, financial interactions, air transportation, defence, global positioning system (GPS), and communications systems all depend on infrastructure on the ground and in space.