#SpaceWatchGL - No. 107
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SpaceWatch.Global wishes you a Happy New Year and says thank you for your trust and your interest. We asked our staff and contributors to review 2019 and provide an outlook into the future of 2020:
- My 2019 in a review – by Dr. Bleddyn Bowen
- My 2019 in a review – by Torsten Kriening
- My 2019 in a review – by Joerg Kreisel
- My 2019 in a review – by Michelle Hanlon
- My 2019 in a review – by Laurie Scott
- Reflections on 2019 – A Turning Point In the Space Industry? – By Blaine Curcio
- 2019 and 2020 – arms control and the security of outer space – by Jessica West, PhD
- My 2019 in a review – by Helen Jameson
- Goodbye 2019 – Hello To The Most Exciting Decade In The Space Industry Since The 1960′s! – by Ole Dokka
- My 2019 in a review – Great Power Politics and Global Governance by Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
- My 2019 In Review – by Dr. John B. Sheldon
- My 2019 in a review – by Dr. Moriba Jah
Over the past weeks, SpaceWatch.Global reported on a number of exciting space & cyber developments throughout the world, including:
- #SpaceWatchGL Op’ed: Northern launch site could transform Australia’s role in space
- BRICS Member States Negotiating Earth Observation Satellite Sharing Framework
- The 8th African Leadership Conference On Space Science And Technology For Sustainable Development
- Arianespace Soyuz Successfully Launches ESA’s CHEOPS Exoplanetary Mission
- Taiwan’s TiSPACE Enters Crowded Small Satellite Launch Market With Large Ambitions
- Ethiopia’s ETRSS-1 Successfully Launched By Chinese Long March 4B
- Russia Proposes To Jointly Build SAR Earth Observation Satellites With Belarus
- France Puts Hat In Ring To Launch Bangladesh’s Bangabandhu-2 Communications Satellite
- Saudi Space Commission To Submit National Space Strategy To King Salman “Soon”
- Luxembourg And Canada’s Northstar Create Centre Of Excellence For Clean Space
- Apple Reported To Be Working On Its Own Satellite Solutions
A Quick Overview Of Major Satellite-Related Decisions At WRC-19
By Thomas Weber and René Woerfel The World Radio Conference 2019 (WRC-19) in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, took place on 28 October to 22 November 2019. The conference brought together 3500 participants from the ITU membership representing the world of frequency management on this planet. The following commentary is a quick overview …
Space And Hybrid Warfare – Part One
By Ralph Thiele … thousands Satellites are a critical infrastructure. They enable television, internet, telecommunications, energy, trade, and financial networks to function. As access to space gets cheaper, the commercial sector continues to grow its presence in space. For fifty years, space innovation meant scaling Apollo-era technologies into ever larger, …
Space And Hybrid Warfare – Part Two
By Ralph Thiele Part One of this essay was published on 21 December 2019 and can be found here. … open for business Large companies and start-ups are using space as a business model, as it enables them to offer new services or generate key data for processing and commercialisation …
Clarifying Germany’s Voting Behaviour On Arms Control In Space
By Sonay Sarac At the 74th UN General Assembly on 5 November 2019, Germany voted on four draft resolutions on arms control in space. This commentary provides information on how and with what intention the vote was taken, and why space weapons play a central role in this matter. The …
#SpaceWatchGL Interviews: Pietro Piccinetti of Fiera di Roma
The first NewSpace Economy (NSE) Forum took place between December 10th and 12th with a total of 2,700 registered attendees, 140 exhibitors and 184 speakers amongst the most influential world experts in the space sector. The event featured 60 vertical sessions on data analytics, future markets, new mobility, new finances …