#SpaceWatchGL - No. 119
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Over the past weeks, SpaceWatch.Global reported on a number of exciting space & cyber developments throughout the world!
- Lunapolitics: US, Russia, Japan, Canada, and European Space Agency To Hold Lunar Talks On 9 June
- Astrobotic Awarded $199.5 Million Contract to Deliver NASA Moon Rover
- Scottish Solar Panel To Fly On UK Space Launch
- Serbia And China Sign Space Technology Cooperation Agreement
- Oman Solicits Requirement Bids For Communications Satellite
- Chinese And Russian Officials Criticise US And Allied Military Space Programmes
- China Unveils Details Of Its Planned Tiangong Space Station
- Roscosmos Chief Touts Role Of Proposed Russian Orbital Station
- Lunapolitics: Russia And China Mull Lunar Base Cooperation
- New Observatory Will Track Near-Earth Satellites And Space Debris
- Travel Africa Network Selects Eutelsat’s HOTBIRD Position To Launch First HD African Travel Channel
COPUOS at a Crossroad – Challenges And Achievements From The Past Guide Us To The Future
By Ken Hodgkins The COVID 19 pandemic has ripped apart all sectors of the world’s societal fabric and rendered economies to a state of paralysis. Multilateral space diplomacy has not been immune to this chaos. This year for the first time the Legal Subcommittee of the UN Committee on the …
Five Thoughts On The Artemis Accords, And Another One For Israel
By Dr. Deganit Paikowsky Last week, NASA released “The Artemis Accords: Principles for a Safe, Peaceful and Prosperous Future.” The aim of the Artemis program, according to NASA, is to “[L]and the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024, heralding in a new era for space …
Doing An Iridium
By Ronald van der Breggen Our industry is sometimes difficult to understand. OneWeb recently filed for bankruptcy, letting go of most of its staff, but then only a couple of days later they filed for an expansion of their fleet to 48,000 satellites. Huh? They started in 2015 announcing 1,600 …
Rethinking the Assessment of the Value of Spectrum
By ESPI As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and the European Space Policy Institute, we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and briefs. This is ESPI Briefs No. 37: ‘Rethinking the Assessment of the Value of Spectrum’, originally published in January 2020. 1. Electromagnetic spectrum – a shared and finite resource …
How Europe’s CHEOPS Satellite Will Improve The Hunt For Exoplanets
By Jason Steffen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas While the planet has been on lockdown the last two months, a new space telescope called CHEOPS opened its eyes, took its first pictures of the heavens and is now open for business. The CHEOPS mission adds a unique twist in the …