https://spacewatch.global/tag/thomas-leira/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Wed, 20 Mar 2024 07:00:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/thomas-leira/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2024/03/ksat-acquires-majority-stake-in-norwegian-startup-vake/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 07:00:06 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=54222 Kongsberg Satellite Services, KSAT, has acquired a 70 per cent majority stake in VAKE, a Norwegian startup that delivers maritime domain awareness by using satellite data combined with machine learning. KSAT has followed the development of VAKE since the company's founding and sees great opportunities in joining forces with VAKE to solve the future challenges in maritime domain awareness, offshore asset protection and shipping activity tracking.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/11/spacewatchgl-opinion-norways-space-ambition-from-oil-to-orbit/ Fri, 13 Nov 2020 09:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=28069&preview=true&preview_id=28069 by Mari Eldholm Norway may not be as famous for its space efforts as its oil and gas sector, but that might be about to change. The Nordic nation has in the past year initiated and moved forward on several ambitious projects and is in the process of revamping the national ecosystem to promote a […]]]>