#SpaceWatchGL - No. 121

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Over the past weeks, SpaceWatch.Global reported on a number of exciting space & cyber developments throughout the world!

• Australia’s defense planning includes $7 billion for Space
• New York startup iRocket lands contract for reusable rockets with US Air Force
• Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo’s cabin design
• Israel’s Ministry of Defense and IAI Launch the Ofek 16 Satellite
• NASA Invests $51 Million in US Firms to Advance Space Research
• Airbus signs contract with Optus for OneSat
• International student teams unveil their lunar habitation concepts at IGLUNA 2020
• Space BD to Provide Deployment From ISS for Myanmar’s First Microsatellite
• ANYWAVES & SYRLINKS: A Winning Combination for New Space
• Japan Revises Space Policy for the First Time in Five Years

Estonia’s space policy – prioritizing e-gov, cybersecurity and AI

by Paul Liias Today the Space sector is growing faster than ever before and it opens up new opportunities and avenues for new players. To leverage these global developments, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of Estonia has created a new Estonian Space Policy and Program, for the period …

Tony King-Smith of AImotive on applying self-driving car tech to space systems

Recently we announced here that AImotive, an automotive supplier of automated driving technologies, and C3S, the satellite and space technology provider, will collaborate on a prototype hardware platform for the efficient execution of artificial intelligence (AI) onboard satellites. C3S will adapt AImotive’s aiWare NN hardware acceleration technology in its space …

E2MC Update On Space Financing Rounds In June 2020

By Raphael Roettgen With only some US$34 million of space-related funding rounds, June sure looked like a slow month on the funding front, perhaps illustrating the time lag in Corona impact that we have previously discussed in this column. On the anecdotal (non-announced) front of things, we at E2MC certainly …

The UAE and “the next frontier” – why we are keen to develop our space program, and doing so in a hurry

By Talal Al Kaissi How things began, and where they are now: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has long looked to space as a domain we would like to make a meaningful contribution to for a variety of reasons. A meeting between our late founder and President Sheikh Zayed with the Apollo …

Australia and the US in space—ready for lift-off?

As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and The Strategist, we have been granted permission to publish selected articles. This is “Australia and the US in space—ready for lift-off?” by Malcolm Davis, originally published on 8 July 2020. Last month, the US Department of Defense released the unclassified summary of a new strategy …