#SpaceWatchGL - No. 133
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Over the past weeks, SpaceWatch.Global reported on a number of exciting space & cyber developments throughout the world!
- #SpaceWatchGL Interviews: My 2020 in a review – by Frank Salzgeber
- #SpaceWatchGL Interviews: Mohammed Ali of Atos IT Solutions and Services GmbH
- #SpaceWatchGL Opinion: Predict to win. How space weather forecasting will save billions on Earth
- Starlink taps German market while Europe mulls own LEO
- Viasat concerned about SpaceX’s Starlink relocation plans
- UK loses Galileo and Egnos but can continue with Copernicus and ESA
- U.S. ban 103 Chinese and Russian firms, including Soyuz manufacturer
- U.S. Congress provides NASA with $23.3 billion for fiscal ’21
- VV17 failure due to “wrong routing and connection” of cables
- Space Electric Thruster System to demonstrate LEO spacecraft transport
Asset-based financing needs a boost in Europe
by Dr. Peter Stubbe Public funding remains key for the space sector, in particular when it is about catalyzing the emerging new space sector. What is the German philosophy and which tools are you using? The space sector is undergoing a significant shift: “New Space” comes along a re-balancing of …
Space world highlights 2020 and outlook 2021
by Prof. Pascale EhrenfreundSpaceWatch.Global asked its friends, staff and contributors to review 2020 and provide an outlook into 2021. These personal reviews are being published during the holiday season. This is the review of Prof. Pascale Ehrenfreund, President of International Astronautical Federation. 2020 has been an unprecedented, difficult and …
2020 – The Space Enterprise Is Moving Full Steam Ahead
by Ken Hodgkins SpaceWatch.Global asked its friends, staff and contributors to review 2020 and provide an outlook into 2021. These personal reviews are being published during the holiday season. This is the review of Ken Hodgkins, former Director of the U.S Department of State’s Office for Space and Advanced Technology. …
2020 in Review: a Space Security Perspective
by Daniel Porras 2020 will be a year long remembered by anyone who lived through it, though maybe not for the best reasons. Between political strife, a pandemic and natural disasters, a person could be forgiven for thinking it was the end of days. But modern civilisation has not collapsed …
My 2020 in a review
by Bassam Alfeeli Year 2020 was a year of many historical events. Taking Covid-19 aside, we have witnessed the launching of 3 missions to Mars and the return of samples from extraterrestrial bodies (Moon and Ryugu). We also saw the success of commercial human space flights as well as building …