#SpaceWatchGL - No. 127
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Over the past weeks, SpaceWatch.Global reported on a number of exciting space & cyber developments throughout the world!
- China pushes ahead with giant 13,000 satellite LEO constellation
- NASA sends Estée Lauder marketing payload to ISS
- U.S. Space Force decides to fly on reused SpaceX Falcon 9
- SpaceX’s challenge of Air Force awards to Starship rivals to be rejected
- Norway nominates its space agency chief as ESA Director General candidate
- U.S. judge sends OneWeb’s rescue plan to vote and okays financing
- NASA details Artemis program plan to land on the Moon in 2024
- Anywaves delivers 5G antennas to Thales Alenia Space’s Omnispace
- Exolaunch to support launch of four Spire Global cubesats on Soyuz
- Emirates want to land on Moon in first Arab lunar mission
- London to revisit plans for a British satellite navigation system, UK press reports
Peter Beck of Rocket Lab: “I don’t have 50 or 60 years to wait”
Rocket Lab belongs to the top private launcher companies globally. With 14 launches and 55 deployed satellites, the company is one of the most vibrant actors in the space launcher market. SpaceWatch.Global Editor-in-Chief Markus Payer got the chance to talk to Peter Beck, Founder and CEO of Rocket Lab, to …
SPACE IS COOL
by Robert Feierbach, CEO of 0-G Launch I have recently heard comments from a few colleagues that our Space industry is stagnating, that the general public does not care about Space, and that the persistent COVID-19 pandemic will put many of our companies out of business. I COULDN’T DISAGREE MORE! …
“Software-defined satellite” – an emerging technology in space industry
by Dennis Silin The term “software-defined satellite” has already appeared in the space industry and related media, but for the purpose of clarity of this article it will be defined as following: instead of viewing a satellite as monolithic piece of hardware and software, designed to perform a specific mission, …
The Final Countdown – Using Space to Save the Planet
by Dalibor Djuran, Planet Labs “Space, the final frontier.” We all remember these words spoken by Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise. The Star Trek show brought space into American homes in the sixties. At the peak of the space race, Star Trek focused on space as a final frontier …
Satellite Technologies Use To Monitor Climate Change and Manage Environmental Disasters
by Malak Trabelsi Loeb The recent 2020 US West Coast wildfire has opened infernos, as it ravaged hundreds of homes and charred hundreds of neighborhoods. On September 10, 2020, CNN announced that the Creek Fire had taken more than 166,00 acres after destroying 360 structures in Central California, Amidst a …