Space Missions

Luxembourg, 22 October 2020. – Morgan Stanley doubled its long-term valuation for SpaceX since July to at least $100 billion, CNBC reported, citing a note to investors of the bank’s analyst Adam Jones. “The pieces are coming together for SpaceX to create an economic and technological flywheel,” Jonas said, according …

by Professor Christopher J. Newman, Northumbria University, UK The international community has struggled for a number of years with the issue of how to govern a human settlement on the Moon and deal with the management of any resources. Previous attempts have been through painstakingly negotiated international treaties. The Outer …

Luxembourg, 21 October 2020. – NASA’s Osiris-Rex probe unfurled its robotic arm last night and successfully touched an asteroid to collect dust and pebbles from its surface, the U.S. space agency said. The asteroid Bennu is currently more than 200 million miles from Earth and offers scientists a window into …

Luxembourg, 21 October 2020. – Nokia is to deploy the first cellular network on the Moon, the Finnish company said. The company was selected by NASA in its recently announced Tipping Point technology program to deploy the first LTE/4G communications system in space, helping pave the way towards sustainable human presence …

2020 changed everything, also the International Astronautical Congress. Instead of meeting the global space community in person in Dubai this year, we met in CyberSpace during the first edition of the International Astronautical Congress earlier last week from 12-14 Oct 2020. SpaceWatch.Global Editor-in-Chief Markus Payer had the opportunity to talk …

Luxembourg, 19 October 2020. – NATO plans to build a new space center at its air force station in Ramstein, Germany, the newswire DPA and Deutsche Welle reported. The new space base would join with the NATO air force high command in Ramstein, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and would …

Luxembourg, 19 October 2020. – The German space agency DLR cooperates with the Australian launch company Southern Launch in space launch research, the agency said. The agreement aims to implement joint civilian research activities in the field of suborbital and orbital space launch, especially in the field of reusable launch …

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 Hour Weekly Aerospace News Roundup, 12-18 Oct”. Welcome to the Dongfang Hour Weekly China Aerospace News …

Luxembourg, 18 October 2020. – Telesat wins another Blackjack: the Canadian satellite company will develop two Low Earth Orbit (LEO) spacecraft buses for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Ottawa-based company said. Telesat U.S. Services has been awarded a DARPA contract to develop and demonstrate in-orbit commercial …

Luxembourg, 18 October 2020. – The University of Texas at Austin, U.S., cooperates with the National Space & Science Technology Centre of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) University on space science and research, the university said. The two universities commit to collaborate “across a range of areas including space debris mapping, radio …