Russian scientists, with the support of the Russian government, intend to place a number of ground-based observatories in the Nenets Autonomous Region on Russia's Northwest Arctic Ocean coast for the purposes of providing space situational awareness (SSA) of satellites and space debris in Polar orbits as the pass over the Arctic region, according to a report published on 7 November 2018 by the Russian news agency, TASS.
Read More »Ethiopia Mulls Creating Space, Cyber Commands As Part of Defence Reforms
As part of significant defence reforms being proposed by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia is considering the creation of a Cyber Security and Space Force, that if implemented, will operate under the command of the Ethiopian military.
Read More »Qatar’s Es’hail-2 To Launch On SpaceX Falcon-9 SLV On 15 November 2018
Qatar’s Es’hailsat is expected to have its Es’hail-2 communications satellite launched on Thursday, 15 November 2018, on board a SpaceX Falcon-9 satellite launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Interviews: Sven Przywarra Of LiveEO – Providing EO Imagery Analysis For Global Infrastructure
Berlin has become a space industry hub, and a popular place for start-ups. One of those is LiveEO, a Berlin-based company that aims to offer services to enable companies to monitor large-scale infrastructure networks, using Earth observation technology. SpaceWatch.Global's Torsten Kriening spoke to Sven Przywarra, Co-Founder and COO of LiveEO, to find out more about their vision and current and future plans.
Read More »China’s CETC Claims Breakthrough In Quantum Radar Development
China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) has unveiled details about its experimental Quantum radar technology during a press conference at the Zhuhai Airshow in China on 5 November 2018, according to a report first published in U.S. trade publication Aviation Week & Space Technology.
Read More »Kazakhstan To Launch Two Satellites On Board SpaceX Vandenberg Launch
Two Kazakh satellites are due to be launched on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 satellite launch vehicle from Vandenberg Air Force Base on 19 November 2018, marking further milestone’s for Kazakhstan’s independent space capabilities.
Read More »Taiwan’s Odysseus New Space Startup To Relocate To Luxembourg
Taiwanese New Space company Odysseus is set to relocate to Luxembourg from its home base in Tainan, Taiwan, after winning a U.S.$570,000 prize from the Luxembourg Space Agency, following the company's first-place finish in the European Space Agency's (ESA) Space Resources Challenge.
Read More »China and Russia Sign Agreement For BeiDou And GLONASS GNSS Cooperation
China and Russia have signed a cooperative agreement on 7 November 2018 covering their respective global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), BeiDou and GLONASS.
Read More »Portugal To Establish Azores Spaceport; Create Oceanography STARlab With China
Portugal is about to make a big splash in the space sector with parallel announcements covering a major cooperative programme with China, and a proposed space launch complex in the Azores islands in the mid-Atlantic ocean involving European, Russian, and U.S. company bids to build it.
Read More »UAE’s MYSAT-1 CubeSat To Be Launched To ISS On 15 November
MYSAT-1, an educational CubeSat built by 20 students at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, is due to be launched as part of the Cygnus NG-10 resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on board a Northrop Grumman Antares launch vehicle from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island in the United States, on 15 November 2018.
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