#SpaceWatchGL - No. 130
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Over the past weeks, SpaceWatch.Global reported on a number of exciting space & cyber developments throughout the world!
- Russian actress to defy Tom Cruise in Hollywood race to space
- Vega VV17 fails, Taranis and SEOSAT-Ingenio satellites both lost
- Former astronaut Pamela Melroy part of Biden’s NASA review team
- Rocket Lab to attempt first Electron stage recovery
- Smallsat market more than quadruples in the 2020s, Euroconsult finds
- Space not amongst Biden-Harris priorities for the U.S.
- NASA chief Bridenstine to leave under Biden administration
- ESA gives first Boost to three German space start-ups
- ThrustMe and Spacety launch first iodine propelled spacecraft
- ESA awards €1.33 billion to Thales and Airbus for Copernicus
Juan Tomas Hernani, CEO Satlantis, about Earth Observation, smart imaging and super resolution
High Resolution from the Low Earth Orbit: Founded in 2014, the Bilbao/Spain-based Satlantis is a pioneer and frontrunner in Earth Observation today. SpaceWatch.Global’s Editor in Chief Markus Payer spoke with Satlantis CEO Juan Tomas Hernani about trends in the industry and technology, public and private funding, rideshare and the unprecedented …
NORWAY’S SPACE AMBITION: FROM OIL TO ORBIT
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 …
CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE COALITION OF THE LIKE-MINDED
by Ken Hodgkins The scope and nature of the space enterprise has evolved in significant ways since the dawning of the space age. For decades civil and national security space activities were driven by the geopolitical rivalries of the Cold War and space legal and policy-making were the exclusive province …
Forty Years of Negotiations on PAROS: Outcomes and New Challenges
by Dr. Anne-Sophie Martin Outer space has become an increasingly militarised area, source of confrontation and characterised by a sort of ‘desanctuarysation’ (notion used by Mr. Xavier Pasco, Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research – Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, Paris). When addressing the military use of outer space …
LEO and the upside-down business model
by Ronald van der Breggen It is not easy to build a successful LEO satellite constellation. If there weren’t already enough technical and regulatory challenges, there are many business and financing issues as well. These issues already caused LeoSat to fold, OneWeb to go into Chapter 11 and Telesat to …