Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Saudi Arabia on 13-15 October 2019 has put space cooperation between the two countries back in the spotlight following the landmark Saudi-Russian space cooperation agreement signed in October 2017.
Read More »UK’s Ministry Of Defence Announces £1.5 Million Boost For Military Space Innovation
UK Defence Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan has announced a £1.5 million investment in 12 ground-breaking space innovation projects.The announcement marks the next step in the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory’s (Dstl) ‘Space to Innovate’ competition, which sought to find and fund new technologies that could improve the UK’s resilience, awareness and capability in space.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Interviews: Tomas Hrozensky of European Space Policy Institute
This situation has been widely acknowledged by governmental and commercial stakeholders, including European ones.
Read More »Speedcast and Australian Space Agency to Collaborate on Growth and Transformation of Australian Space Industry
Speedcast and the Australian Space Agency signed a statement of cooperation today outlining Speedcast's intentions to support the agency's ambitious goal of tripling the nation's space sector in size and creating 20,000 new jobs by 2030.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Op’Ed: Australian Space Agency 1 Year On: A Message From Head, Dr. Megan Clark, AC
Very few things inspire quite like space, and this has been exemplified during the first year of the Australian Space Agency.
Read More »LeoLabs And New Zealand Space Agency Partner To Create Space Regulatory And Sustainability Platform
LeoLabs, Inc., the leading commercial provider of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) mapping and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services announced on 25 June 2019 the world's first dedicated regulatory platform for LEO:
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Op’ed: COPUOS Long Term Sustainability Guidelines Set Stage For Secure World Foundation’s Summit For Space Sustainability
The adoption of the Long Term Sustainability (LTS) Guidelines “is the most significant output of COPUOS [Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space] in the last decade, and the most significant output promoting space sustainability,”
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Interviews: Dr. Moriba Jah of The University of Texas
Spacewatch.Global's Chairman Dr. John B. Sheldon was fortunate enough to sit down with Dr. Moriba Jah of the University of Texas and a pioneer in Space Situational Awareness to talk about what's wrong with the current approach and how this growing problem can be tackled.
Read More »Japan And France Strengthen Space Cooperation In Preparation For Macron Visit
President of the Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), Jean-Yves Le Gall, was in Tokyo on 6 June 2019 to lay the groundwork for the space agenda of the State Visit of President Emmanuel Macron to Japan on 26 and 27 June.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Op’Ed: Britain’s Vital Strategic Interests In Space
There are thousands of dedicated space professionals in the UK, who, between them, have established a world-class reputation in space science, commercial space and engineering, and in certain national security space operations.
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