Entrepreneurship

In this week’s Space Café WebTalk, Fahad Al Mheiri, Acting Executive Director – Space Sector at the United Arab Emirates Space Agency (UAESA), talked about the development of the space sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and gave updates on the activities of the UAE Space Agency. He talked about the UAE Space …

Luxembourg, 7 October 2020. – SpaceX launched another 60 Starlink satellites from Florida, bringing the total of Starlink satellites launched so far to 775. SpaceX launched the 60 new Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 6 October, the company said. The first stage …

by Robert Feierbach, CEO of 0-G Launch I have recently heard comments from a few colleagues that our Space industry is stagnating, that the general public does not care about Space, and that the persistent COVID-19 pandemic will put many of our companies out of business. I COULDN’T DISAGREE MORE! …

Paris, 5 October 2020. –  The French space propulsion specialist ThrustMe gained support from the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a new electric propulsion system coping with the challenges of the mega-constellation era, the company announced. It is ThrustMe’s first contract with ESA’s ARTES program to support “the development …

Paris, 5 October 2020. – Spacebit, a space robotics and rover specialist, secured a second Moon mission for 2021, in support of NASA’s Artemis program, the UK-based company said. Spacebit will do its second ride to the Moon with Houston-based Intuitive Machines on the Nova-C lander in 2021, the company announced. …

Paris, 4 October 2020. – The European Space Agency (ESA) signed a contract with the Danish nanosatellite manufacturer GomSpace, the company announced on Friday. The EUR 1.3 million contract allows GomSpace to continue the development of its GOMX-5 mission and to focus on demonstrating new nanosatellite capabilities in space, particularly for …

Rocket Lab belongs to the top private launcher companies globally. With 14 launches and 55 deployed satellites, the company is one of the most vibrant actors in the space launcher market. SpaceWatch.Global Editor-in-Chief Markus Payer got the chance to talk to Peter Beck, Founder and CEO of Rocket Lab, to …

by Dalibor Djuran, Planet Labs “Space, the final frontier.” We all remember these words spoken by Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise. The Star Trek show brought space into American homes in the sixties. At the peak of the space race, Star Trek focused on space as a final frontier …

Luxembourg, 1 October 2020. – Astrobotic’s CubeRover for NASA’s Moon missions is on its way to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Pittsburgh-based company announced. The CubeRover is designed to provide an affordable mobile outlet for scientific instruments and other payloads to operate on the surface of the Moon, …

In this week’s Space Cafè WebTalk, Dr. Bhavya Lal, Researcher at IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute talked about Chinas Commercial Space Sector.  Dr. Bhavya Lal disussed key findings from a recent report she led on the emergence of the commercial space sector in China. The report used original documents, first-hand …