Entrepreneurship

Luxembourg, 12 November 2020. – Eutelsat has appointed Pascal Homsy new Chief Technical Officer (CTO). Homsy joins Eutelsat from Thales Alenia Space where he was head of the Space Telecommunications Business Line, the Paris-based company said. He has 30 years of experience in senior management positions within major international groups, …

Luxembourg, 13 November 2020.  Raytheon Technologies acquires the small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies, the Colorado-based company announced. Blue Canyon entered into an agreement to be acquired by Massachusetts-based Raytheon, an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government …

In this week’s Space Cafè WebTalk, Ole Dokka, project manager of Newspace North, Andoya, Norway, talked about a wide range opportunities that arise with the new spaceport developments. Norway and Andøya Space will soon have one of few commercial spaceports for small satellites in Europe. The project received the first major …

by Raphael Roettgen Space holds incredible opportunities for us all, including in business, but more information and education is needed in order to attract ever more investors, potential entrepreneurs, other stakeholders and the wider public to this exciting sector. It was with this in mind that I spent part of …

by Frank M. Salzgeber, Head of Innovation and Ventures Office, ESA As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and ESA Space Solutions, we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. We are pleased to present “Why children make the best entrepreneurs”, originally published here on 10 Nov …

Im ersten Space Café Regional – deutsche Ausgabe wird SpaceWatch.Global’s Chefredakteur Markus Payer im Gespräch mit Raphael Roettgen, dessen neues Buch “Hoch Hinaus, die neue Weltraumwirtschaft” vorstellen. Das Space Café Regional – deutsche Ausgabe findet am Donnerstag, 26. November 2020 um 16:00 statt. Die Weltraumfahrt steht im Umbruch: Wiederverwertbare Raketen …

High Resolution from the Low Earth Orbit: Founded in 2014, the Bilbao/Spain-based Satlantis is a pioneer and frontrunner in Earth Observation today. SpaceWatch.Global’s Editor in Chief Markus Payer spoke with Satlantis CEO Juan Tomas Hernani about trends in the industry and technology, public and private funding, rideshare and the unprecedented …

Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring Claudia Kessler, Initiator, Founder, driving force of “Die Astronautin”, Bremen, Germany. This event will take place on 1 Dezember 2020 at 4:00 pm CET. February, 2022: A space crew with only women astronauts docks to the Unity Node after having …

by Blaine Curcio and Jean Deville 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 China Aerospace News Roundup 2 Nov – 8 Nov 2020”. Hello and welcome to another episode …

Paris, 8 November 2020. – Viasat has named Rick Baldridge President and CEO and Mark Dankberg Executive Chairman, the company announced. Dankberg was Chairman and CEO and will remain Chairman of the Board of Directors, the NASDAQ-listed company said. Baldridge was President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) before. “This evolution …