The very existence of human life on earth today is dependent on space-based services. From banking and money transfers to streaming online content and using maps, the internet and other technological capabilities are being widely used by everyone across the world. From the individual level to the international level, space-based services play a crucial role. However, there are still many challenges and threats within the space domain, that need to be addressed at the national, regional, and global levels. All these imply the fact that space is both a competent and vulnerable domain in the contemporary world.
Read More »Register Today For Our Space Café Israel by Meidad Pariente On 28 September 2022
This Space Café Israel will feature Yossi Yamin, founder and Chairman of SpacePharma, in conversation with Meidad Pariente, correspondent of SpaceWatch.Global for Israel. Space Commerce Revolution in LEO - From miniaturized lab to production units.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: Confidential or Shared? The Discovery of Outer Space Resources by the Private Sector
The Moon Village Association recently created the Benefit Sharing Project to consider the sharing of benefits from the exploration and use of outer space. Following its initial meeting, there was a recommendation that “we should make explicit the need to figure out how to handle commercial confidentiality.”
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: The SGAC Project Groups – The largest, most diverse project teams in the space sector
The Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) was conceived at UNISPACE III in 1999. The purpose of SGAC was, and remains, to support the United Nations Programme on Space Applications as a representative of university students and young space professionals ages 18-35 across the globe.
Read More »Register Today For Our Space Café Italy On 3 February 2022
This Space Café Italy will feature Alessio Grasso, Aerospace & Defense Business Unit Manager of the Dallara Group,in conversation with Dr Emma Gatti, host for Space Cafè Radio and correspondent of SpaceWatch.Global for Italy.How did a historical car racing company make its debut in Space?
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: Reconciling Commercial Space Activities with the Foundational Principles of Space Law
Since the dawn of the first ‘Space Age’ in 1957, space-related technologies have transformed our lives, revolutionising communications, medicine, navigation, finance, agriculture and computing, to name but a few. Space is an important element of critical infrastructure to support the world economy, international trade and investment, strategic thinking, military strategy, national security,
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: The Resurrection of LinkSpace?
In this day and age of constant internet connectivity, thousands of notifications being thrown at us, and the ever-present threat of Covid-19, it can be easy to forget that we are in fact in Lent, the period between Ash Wednesday and Easter
Read More »Rocket Lab Launch Update: Don’t Stop Me Now
Rocket Lab released the following update on 9 June 2020: The countdown is on for Rocket Lab’s 12th Electron launch, the ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ mission from Launch Complex 1. This mission was originally slated to launch in late March but was postponed due to the COVID-19 situation. (Perhaps we …
Read More »York Space Systems Announces Partnership With LatConnect 60 To Deploy SmallSat Constellation
York Space Systems, an aerospace company specializing in complete space segment customer solutions and the manufacturer of standardized spacecraft platforms, announced that the company has been chosen as a strategic partner & subcontractor by LatConnect 60, who is currently developing a small satellite constellation that will provide greater access and control to critical Earth observation data required by the Australian government and a wide range of commercial clients across the world.
Read More »Xplore To Host Space For Humanity Payload On Its First Moon Mission
Xplore Inc., a commercial space company providing Space as a Service TM today announced on 3 June 2020 that space industry leader Dylan Taylor plans to reserve payload space on Xplore's first mission beyond Earth orbit.
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