Satellite Launch Business

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 9 Nov – 15 Nov 2020”. Hello and welcome to another episode …

Paris, 16 November der 2020. – Elon Musk’s SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 with its Crew Dragon spacecraft Resilience and four astronauts on board to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA confirmed the spectacular lift-off from SpaceX’s Cape Canaveral launch pad on Sunday night local time. The so-called …

Luxembourg, 12 November 2020. – Spaceflight, a rideshare and mission management provider, will launch new transfer vehicles to tug smallsats into customized orbits in 2021, the Seattle-based company announced. Spaceflight develops two next-generation orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) that will debut in 2021; the first, Sherpa-FX, is to fly on the …

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, …

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 …

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 …

Luxembourg, 12 November 2020. – The Spanish Earth-imaging SEOSAT-Ingenio satellite will be launched on a Vega rocket from French Guiana on 17 November, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced. SEOSAT-Ingenio carries a high-resolution dual camera to image the Earth with a resolution of 2.5 meters. With its capability to look …

Luxembourg, 12 November 2020. – After years of designing, developing, and testing, NASA has certified SpaceX’s Crew Dragon system for flights to the International Space Station (ISS), the agency announced. Crew Dragon is the first commercial spacecraft system capable of transporting humans to and from the ISS and is part …

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 …

Luxembourg, 10 November 2020. – Omispace, a mobile communications provider based in Virginia in the U.S., has chosen Exolaunch to deliver two new satellites into orbit on SpaceX in early 2022, the company said. The rideshare provider Exolaunch will deliver two Thales Alenia Space-built S-band satellites into orbit aboard SpaceX’s …