On 22 April 2020 Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) successfully launched a small satellite - the Noor-1 (Farsi for 'Light') - on a previously unseen satellite launch vehicle called the Qased.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Perspectives On Iran’s Satellite Launch: Fabian Hinz On The Qased Satellite Launch Vehicle
On 22 April 2020 Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) successfully launched a small satellite - the Noor-1 (Farsi for 'Light') - on a previously unseen satellite launch vehicle called the Qased.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Perspectives On Iran’s Satellite Launch: Seyed Hossein Mousavian’s Iranian View
On 22 April 2020 Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) successfully launched a small satellite - the Noor-1 (Farsi for 'Light') - on a previously unseen satellite launch vehicle called the Qased.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Perspectives On Iran’s Satellite Launch: Gawdat Bahgat On The Launch Defying ‘Maximum Pressure’
On 22 April 2020 Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) successfully launched a small satellite - the Noor-1 (Farsi for 'Light') - on a previously unseen satellite launch vehicle called the Qased.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: Lunapolitics Or Lunapolitik? The Choice Is Ours
More than fifty years after the first Apollo Moon landings, we are witnessing the rise of Lunapolitics, where the Moon’s topography - or ‘Lunography’ - from below its surface through to Cislunar space intersects with Earthly political and economic interests.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: Europe Has The Potential To Lead The Way In Space Exploration Policy
By Ioana BratuIn February 2020, the European Commission issued the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence (AI) – a European Approach to Excellence and Trust (White Paper). The document follows a series of draft initiatives about what concerns European AI policies..
Read More »Lunapolitics: U.S. To Propose ‘Artemis Accords’ To Govern Moon Mining Operations
Following the executive order on Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources signed by President Donald J. Trump on 6 April 2020, it has been reported by Reuters on 5 May 2020 that the United States is drafting principles it proposes can govern mining and other resource extraction operations on the Moon it calls the ‘Artemis Accords’.
Read More »Space Café WebTalk Recap: “33 minutes with Daniel Porras”
This week’s Space Café WebTalk took place on 28 April 2020, featuring Daniel Porras, Space Security Fellow at UNIDIR - the United Nations Institute of Disarmament Research in Geneva - in conversation with Torsten Kriening, co-publisher of SpaceWatch.Global and COO of ThorGroup GmbH.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Interview: Dr. Scott Pace On The U.S. Space Resources Executive Order
On 6 April 2020, US President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) on Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources.
Read More »Taking Action! – A Group Of Students Aims To Set Space On The Global Agenda – SDG 18
On the fourth of October 1957, humanity managed the first successful orbital launch of Sputnik 1, the very first satellite. This was the beginning of a new era, the era of space exploration.
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