Space Exploration

Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring Mari Eldholm, the Director of NIFRO, Oslo, Norway

SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 14th episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Dr. James Schwartz - we need to rethink everything 

NASA detects water on the sunny side of the Moon

Airbus Ventures invests in Singapore radiation protection start-up

SpaceX completes 100th Falcon launch with another Starlink mission

On October 13, 2020, the civilian space agencies of eight nations – Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States – announced that they had agreed to 12 Principles for Cooperation in the Civil Exploration and Use of the Moon, Mars, Comets, and Asteroids, known colloquially as the Artemis Accords. 

Space technology and the potential habitation of the Solar System is lengthening the list of catastrophic threats posed to humanity, claims Daniel Deudney in his new book Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity. It follows on from his prior arguments about nuclear weapons and a world government in Bounding Power: the threat of nuclear extinction requires systemic political and social change in the way humans govern the world.

First Ariane 6 upper stage assembled in Bremen

Morgan Stanley doubles value estimate for SpaceX to $100 billion

In this week’s Space Cafè WebTalk, Prof. Dr. Ram S. Jakhu, Acting Director of the Institute of Air and Space Law at McGill University, Montreal, Canada talked about the urgent need for more law and institutions to keep space utilisation sustainable, conflict-free and for the benefit of all nations and people.