Space

This Space Café Israel will feature Lior Herman, Co-Founder & Managing Director at TYPE5 Space Tech VC and Product Manager at Herman Technologies, in conversation with Meidad Pariente, correspondent of SpaceWatch.Global for Israel: Product Challenges in Space Technology

Speedcast and OneWeb have jointly announced the launch of OneWeb’s maritime LEO connectivity service. Following successful engineering trials, OneWeb’s maritime terminals have been installed on the RV Polarstern, in partnership with Reederei F. Laeisz and Speedcast, delivering the first fully-managed service and support.

OneWeb has announced that it is launching its “Try Before You Buy” maritime service. The service will take bookings from maritime users who want to benefit from OneWeb’s 100mbps+ enterprise-grade flexible connectivity packages at sea.

Kymeta and OneWeb have announced that Kymeta’s electronically-steered Peregrine u8 LEO terminal is now commercially available and will begin shipping. As a result, the Company becomes the first flat panel antenna to serve the maritime market on OneWeb’s LEO network.

Thales Alenia Space will partner with Serco, the leader of the consortium that the European Space Agency (ESA) awarded to implement the DestinE Core Service Platform (DESP), a key element of the European Commission’s flagship initiative Destination Earth (DestinE). The objective of DestinE is to develop highly accurate digital models of the Earth to monitor and predict the interaction between natural phenomena and human activities, anticipate extreme events, and adapt policies to climate-related challenges.

In this episode, join Anousheh Ansari, a space entrepreneur and the first Iranian, self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station, as she discusses her journey in the space industry, the future of exponential technologies, and her involvement in the XPRIZE.

On the day 2 of FT Live Investing in Space Event in London, SpaceWatch.Global Editor in Chief Dr Emma Gatti spoke with Sebastian Stroehl of UNIO Enterprise about their coming soon second round of investments, the link between the automotive sector and Space, and the need of the space startups to assess investment risks correctly

Welcome from day 2 of the FT Live Investing in Space event in London, our Dr. Emma Gatti and Torsten Kriening offer an outlook of the in-person day.

Arianespace has announced the signature of a launch contract for the Earth observation satellite Kompsat-6 (KOrean Multi-Purpose SATellite-6) for the Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI). The launch company will subsequently deliver the satellite to orbit with the European light launcher Vega C from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana in December 2024.

Share My Space has signed a new contract with Astroscale to optimally enable Astroscale to assess space objects’ attitude in LEO, a requirement for any on-orbit rendezvous. Attitude analysis of space objects is a critical factor in ensuring environmental safety, mitigating the risk of catastrophic collisions in space, and preventing further polluting fragmentation. To that effect, Astroscale has called upon Share My Space’s value-added services in orbital object attitude analysis.