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Paris, 3 February 2021. – They call it a “RUD”: SpaceX’s nineth Starship exploded when it landed back from its test flight in Cameron County, Texas, yesterday. “During the landing flip maneuver, one of the Raptor engines did not relight and caused SN9 to land at high speed and experience …

Paris, 3 February 2021. – Planning ahead for the next 100 years: The launch company Astra is going public and will be traded at the U.S. Nasdaq, its founder and CEO Chris Kemp said. The listing will be through a SPAC, a special purpose acquisition company that is already listed, …

by Raphael Roettgen 2021 started with a strong headline number of around US$480 million of space financing rounds in January … substantially thanks to an old acquaintance having come back to the market: satellite communications provider OneWeb captured US$400 million. The month also saw a few other rounds, across space …

As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and The Strategist, we have been granted permission to publish selected articles. This is “Seven Sisters project taking Australia further into space” by Malcolm Davis, originally published on 29 January 2021. In a previous article, I made the case for Australia developing and launching …

Paris, 2 February 2021. – The “Moon of Kuwait” is rising: Kuwait’s first satellite QMR-KWT is passing its functional tests to be on track for a launch mid of this year, the cubesat company Orbital Space said. QMR-KWT means “Moon of Kuwait”, translated from Arabic, and will launch aboard a …

Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café UAE featuring Talal Al Kaissi of Group 42 (G42). This event will take place on 15 February 2021 at 4:00 pm CET. Talal Al Kaissi is the Vice President of Special Projects and the Space Program of G42, where his role …

Paris, 1 February 2021. – Only a mile but a milestone: The American space start-up bluShift claims to have succeeded the first commercial rocket launch powered by biofuel. The start-up based in Brunswick, Maine, launched its Stardust 1.0 prototpye from the Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, it announced on …

Paris, 1 February 2021. – NASA is testing, too: The U.S. space agency conducted the first hot fire test of its new RS-25 engine that will power the giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, NASA announced. The test of the RS-25 developmental engine last week at Stennis Space Center near Bay …

Paris, 29 January 2021. – You could call it “SpAIce”: The European Space Agency (ESA) and the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) are launching a research laboratory in Kaiserslautern, Germany, called [email protected] Scientists from both organisations will be researching AI systems for interpreting complex, extensive data from Earth …

Paris, 29 January 2021. – The name is a program: The Spanish nanosatellite and telecommunications operator Sateliot wants to pioneer in the communication between satellites and Internet of Things (IoT). Sateliot, which sees itself as “the first satellite telecommunications operator to provide global and continuous connectivity to the Internet of …