LeoLabs and Aalyria announced a new partnership to work together on contract opportunities dealing with space awareness. Aalyria plans to integrate LeoLabs' space traffic database into its network orchestration platform, according to the Monday announcement.  LeoLabs offers space operations software to track missions in Low-Earth Orbit, and has a network of ground radars. Aalyria offers…

Amini, an African environmental data collection and intelligence infrastructure company, has raised another raised $4 million in a seed funding round. Amini announced the successful funding round, Nov. 30. The round was led by Salesforce Ventures, Salesforce's global investment arm, and Female Founders Fund, a seed stage venture fund that invests exclusively in female-founded companies.…

The Global Satellite Operators Association (GSOA) hopes to play a key role and drive better behaviors in the area of space sustainability. GSOA released a Code of Conduct on Space Sustainability on Nov. 13 — calling on operators to implement responsible practices that mitigate the risk of in-orbit collision, minimize the threat of non-trackable debris,…

The European Space Agency (ESA) finalized its Zero Debris Charter, releasing the document this week during the 2023 Space Summit in Seville, Spain. The non-binding charter calls participants to stop generating space debris by 2030.  The charter sets out a number of targets, including that a mission’s probability of generating space debris should remain below…