Ten is okay: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted SpaceX to launch ten Starlink satellites into polar orbit.
Read More »Portugal outlines its EU Presidency’s priorities
Economic recovery, social rights, digital transition, climate action – but no explicit mentioning of space: Portugal has outlined its priorities for its EU Presidency that started on the 1st January.
Read More »Boeing to power ISS with six more solar arrays
More power: Boeing provides six more solar arrays to the International Space Station (ISS) to increase the orbiting laboratory’s power supply, the company said.
Read More »Register Today For Our Space Café WebTalk “33 minutes with Dr. Peter Martinez” On 26 January 2021
Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring Dr. Peter Martinez, Executive Director of the Secure World Foundation, USA. This event will take place on 26 January 2021 at 4:00 pm CET.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: My 2020 in a review – by Joerg Kreisel
SpaceWatch.Global asked its staff and contributors to review 2020 and provide an outlook into 2021. These personal reviews are being published during the holiday season. This is Joerg Kreisel, CEO at JKIC.
Read More »Register Today For Our Space Café WebTalk “33 minutes with Elodie Viau” On 19 January 2021
Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring Elodie Viau, Director of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications (D/TIA), and Head of ECSAT, at the European Space Agency in Harwell, UK. This event will take place on 19 January 2021 at 4:00 pm CET.
Read More »ESA chief Woerner hands over to Aschbacher four months earlier
Earlier handover: The current ESA Director General Jan Woerner will hand over to his successor Josef Aschbacher on 1st March, four months earlier than originally foreseen.
Read More »Intelsat orders two OneSat satellites from Airbus
Intelsat orders two OneSat satellites from Airbus
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: Space Traffic Management – Do Not Overcomplicate the Issue
Space traffic management (STM) is an enabler for reliable, safe space operations – the real objective that the global space community needs to rally around during this unprecedented growth of space system deployments and growth in orbital debris. [See Endnote 1]
Read More »Space Café WebTalk Recap: Doug Loverro on Rethinking the Inevitable
In this week’s Space Cafè WebTalk, Doug Loverro, President at Loverro Consulting, Virgina, USA talked about his feature: "Rethinking the Inevitable: Why We Need to Stop Hoping, and Prepare for Space Warfare", published on SpaceWatch.Global. For decades the international community has tried, and failed, to achieve agreement on treaties aimed at preventing war in space. From the 1980s “Treaty to Prevent an Arms Race in Space”
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