Formed in 2010, the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) has been making huge strides forward. Though the Agency was only founded nine years ago, South Africa's involvement in space goes back to the second half of the 20th century, with projects that included observing the Earth’s magnetic field at stations around Southern Africa.
Read More »Hughes Partners with Startup to Create New Solutions for Extending LTE Coverage Using Helicopters, UAVs
HUGHES, in partnership with Virtual Network Communications will develop new joint solutions to extend mobile network connectivity using an integrated combination of VNC’s deployable LTE technology with Hughes JUPITER™ and HM satellite systems.
Read More »MDA Selected to Build Robotic Interfaces for Canadarm3 on NASA-led Gateway
MDA has been awarded two contracts from the Canadian Space Agency for work on Phase A of the Gateway External Robotic Interfaces project.
Read More »Get SAT and U.K.’s GRC Create Strategic Cooperation Relationship
Get SAT and GRC (Global RadioData Communication Ltd.) have annouced a strategic partnership that will see the firms target the U.K. security, defense and government markets with communications on-the-move (CoTM) broadband platforms based on Get SAT's industry-leading, powerful terminals.
Read More »Blue Canyon Technologies Joins Viasat’s Ecosystem to Build First-Ever Link 16 Low-Earth Orbit Spacecraft
Small satellite manufacturer Blue Canyon Technologies has been selected by Viasat to join its team supporting the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles XVI pilot program to test the first-ever Link 16-capable LEO spacecraft
Read More »Equatorial Space and Precious Payload To Advance Ridesharing Opportunities For Near-Equatorial and Polar Inclinations
Small satellite launch vehicle developer, Equatorial Space, has announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Precious Payload Inc.
Read More »Philippines Moves Forward with Philippine Space Agency Plans
The Philippines News Agency has reported that the Philippines is to move forward with the establishment of its own space agency.
Read More »Speedcast and Australian Space Agency to Collaborate on Growth and Transformation of Australian Space Industry
Speedcast and the Australian Space Agency signed a statement of cooperation today outlining Speedcast's intentions to support the agency's ambitious goal of tripling the nation's space sector in size and creating 20,000 new jobs by 2030.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Op’ed: Space Law Games at the 4th Global Space Traffic Management Workshop
The STFC/Lockheed Martin Global Space Traffic Management Workshop hosted by the Royal Edinburgh Observatory is taking place in Edinburgh 26-29th August 2019. It is the fourth in what has become an annual series of events that bring together invited groups of international participants with expertise in the range of topics that relate to the development of a global system for Space Traffic Management (STM).
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Op’ed: How India is catching up with China with the launch of Chandrayaan-2
As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. This is "How India is catching up with China with the launch of Chandrayaan-2", originally published 22 July 2019.
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