Entrepreneurship

How do we kickstart a space-based economy that includes everything from communications, orbiting satellites, clean energy, and asteroid mining? Here, planetary scientist Philip Metzger of the University of Central Florida lays out a proposed roadmap to get there. This essay was originally published by Aeon on January 9, 2018, and is …

Quika Ltd. has launched the world’s first entirely free high-speed satellite internet for developing countries. According to a Quika press release, the new service is being provided to “address a leading cause of economic and social inequality.” Quika aims to close what it sees as an investment gap in areas …

Since a very young age, Michaela Musilova dreamt of exploring space and eventually becoming an astrobiologist to find the answers to the ultimate question:  is there life out there? Today, as Chair of the Slovak Organisation for Space Activities, Musilova has tirelessly pursued her dream and, from the 8-year old …

Technion and the Israel Space Agency announced that in late 2018, a group of three nanosatellites, which will fly in controlled formation, will be launched for the first time into space.  The satellite formation will be launched by the Dutch company Innovative Solutions In Space, which specialises in launching nanosatellites …

Wow. It’s been a busy year at SpaceWatch Middle East, but it’s also been a very rewarding one as the team has seen the platform grow form literally nothing to a publication that has earned a following that we could never have dreamed of and interest from all over the …

Angosat-1, Angola’s first communications satellite has re-established contact with its ground station in Luanda. The contact was confirmed by ANGOP (Agencia Angola Press) via a telephone call with the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Information technology, Manual Homan. Homan said that it was normal for such an event to …

Clyde Space is set to merge with Swedish space company, AAC Microtec in a deal that is expected to be completed by the end of January. The coming together of the two companies will create a leading smallsat company that will dominate the smallsat market in the 1-500kg class. Clyde …

A message from ThorGroup Management In our last Seasonal Thoughts 2017 we spoke about our recent past and where we stand today. Now, we are ready to disclose a few of our plans for next year. As of January 2018 we will go global – SpaceWatch.Global! SpaceWatch Middle East will …

British ‘New Space’ pioneer Earth-i announced that images and video from its new prototype satellite due for launch early January 2018 will be managed, catalogued and geometrically corrected using software from Swedish photogrammetry and imagery specialist, Spacemetric. Earth-i is building the first commercial constellation in the world to provide full-colour …

A message from ThorGroup Management We established ThorGroup over two years ago now. Our vision was to start a publication that focused on space in emerging areas of the world. The first area, and an area of our own interest and expertise, was the Middle East. Where ThorGroup does the analytics …