#SpaceWatchGL - No. 138
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- Space isn’t all STEM: what we learned in 33 minutes with Shelli Brunswick
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- Dr. Walther Pelzer on a spaceport, micro-launchers, and the next German in space
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Over the past weeks, SpaceWatch.Global reported on a number of exciting space & cyber developments throughout the world!
- ESPI Brief 47 – About a new European multi-orbit connectivity system
- PSSI Perspective #8 – China Deploys BeiDou to Project Power and Influence
- EU wants more synergies between industry, defense and space
- Europe takes next step towards STM conference
- ESA incubator in Switzerland extends space hub mandate
- NATO installs space excellence centre in Toulouse
- EU picks GMV to lead Europe’s STM project
- ESA choses Harmony for its next Earth Explorer mission
- UK and Australia create Space Bridge to cooperate
- ESA and Orbit Fab test and use green propellant
- OQ takes lead in European 5G nanosat mission
- Rosanna Hoffmann heads ECSL space law center
“Green Space” on Earth – a New Deal
When we think about our environment, we do not tend to include space. However, with increasing alerts of possible space pollution and a rising urgency to deal with space debris, the question of a “Green Space” has become pertinent. How can space and in-orbit technologies become sustainable and environmentally friendly? …
E2MC Update On Space-Financing Rounds in February 2021
by Raphael Roettgen February 2021 was a blockbuster month for space transactions. When including the announced SPAC mergers of Astra and BlackSky, total money raised by space companies exceeds US$2.1 billion (of which the SPACs represent almost US$1 billion and SpaceX another US$850 million). As all of the large transactions …
Security for Commercial Space: CYSAT’21 Pioneers Cyber Security Solutions
by Yvette Gonzalez In a blink it seems our lives have become almost completely reliant on space infrastructure and the digital – or cyber – life that has burgeoned from it. Cyber is here and amassed the “trillions” scenario predicted only a decade ago. Weather forecasting, financial interactions, air …
Dongfang Hour China Aerospace News Roundup 1 – 7 March 2021
by Blaine Curcio and Jean Deville As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Orbital Gateway Consulting we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. We are pleased to present “Dongfang Hour China Aerospace News Roundup 1 – 7 March 2021”. …
What Space Traffic Management measures must be internationally implemented to improve the safety and sustainability of outer space?
by Antonio Fowl Stark, Space Traffic Management (STM) is inherently an intergovernmental and interdisciplinary field. Precisely for these characteristics, there is no single agreed-upon definition of STM. STM, in essence, is a multidimensional field with at least three spectrums: …