Tag: Space exploration
Moscow wants to extend agreements for joint ISS space flights with the USA
EAT The ISS is one of the few objects on which Americans and Russians still work together. (Photo: IMAGO/SNA) Moscow, Baikonur According to official information, Russia is now ready to…
The German government’s space problem
Düsseldorf, Brussels Elon Musk is controversial, but his power is undisputed. At the beginning of Russia’s major invasion, the US billionaire made his Starlink satellite network available to the Ukrainians.…
Euclid searches for dark matter and energy
Berlin, Cape Canaveral A look at the clear night sky, especially with binoculars or a telescope, reveals it: so many stars and galaxies! But it’s far too few, cosmologists would…
Virgin Galactic: First commercial flight successful
First commercial flight New York, Dusseldorf With three Italian scientists on board, the space company Virgin Galactic has started its commercial flight operations into space. The VSS Unity spaceplane launched…
When will our water run out?
Dusseldorf The lack of water is visible these days: New York is shrouded in yellowish smoke because the forests in nearby Canada are burning. It transforms soils in Spain into…
Raw materials and energy from space
Dusseldorf The countdown is on: Mankind is in a new race for the best places in the near-Earth Universe. Above all, the big yellow ball in the night sky promises…
The first private moon flight ends in a hard landing
Tokyo The first moon landing by a private company initially seems to go smoothly. On large screens, the landing module M1 of the Japanese company Ispace touches down on the…
Japanese company apparently fails private moon landing
Model of the moon lander HAKUTO-R In the run-up to the landing, the founder and boss of ispace had announced “the beginning of a new era of commercial lunar missions”.…
SPD wants to make Germany a rocket launch site
Rocket launch in China A floating launch platform in the North Sea is planned for the German “Space Station”. (Photo: imago stock&people) Berlin The SPD parliamentary group calls for significant…
How a Japanese company wants to make history on the moon
Tokyo Takeshi Hakamada has big plans for the moon: The Japanese believes that the moon will become a “springboard for further space missions”. And his company Ispace is supposed to…
SpaceX rocket explodes on first test flight
Starship rocket explosion The rocket only stayed in the air for about three minutes. (Photo: via REUTERS) Brownsville The largest rocket system ever built “Starship” broke apart on its first…
What the postponed start means
Dusseldorf The flight maneuver was quite simple: two minutes after launch, the booster with 33 engines was supposed to separate from the rocket. The actual Starship rocket was supposed to…
What investors need to know about space stocks
Sunrise in space Investing in space and satellite technology stocks can be risky. (Photo: E+/Getty Images) Cologne Space has always fascinated. So it’s hardly surprising that there are listed companies…
There is chaos in space, ownership is unclear: order is needed
Almost two years ago, the European Space Agency (ESA) counted a good 6,350 satellites in orbit, half were still working, the rest is potential scrap. And the space boom has…
What’s next for space travel without Russia?
Russian Soyuz capsule at the ISS 58 percent of the previous supply flights to the International Space Station took place with Russian rockets. That is likely to change in view…
Solar energy from space is set to revolutionize energy supply
Dusseldorf In space, the sun shines 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There is no sunset in space. And the sunlight is ten times more intense than on…
This is how a German could get to the moon
European space travel The European Space Agency Esa is building the important supply module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which is intended to take astronauts to the moon. (Photo: Imago (2),…
Isar Aerospace, RFA and Hyimpulse will start soon
RFA One The Rocket Factory Augsburg launch vehicle is scheduled to be launched for the first time at the end of the year. Dusseldorf It’s a race into space: three…
40 million euros for The Exploration Company
Dusseldorf The Franco-German spaceship start-up “The Exploration Company” is one of the most ambitious space projects in Europe. The former head of innovation at the Airbus subsidiary Defense and Space,…
The traffic light government is aiming for space
Berlin Four dry lines in their coalition agreement do not suggest that the traffic light government is aiming for space. Space and the commercial providers summarized under the heading “New…