Tag: Space travel
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…
Isar Aerospace collects 155 million euros and wants to start at the end of the year
Dusseldorf, Berlin, Frankfurt The first rocket launch is still pending, but the German aerospace start-up Isar Aerospace already wants to invest heavily in additional production capacity: “In the long term,…
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…
Japan destroys new launch vehicle after misfire
H3 rocket The Tokyo government launched a new medium-range missile on Tuesday for the first time in three decades. (Photo: via REUTERS) Tokyo According to official information, Japan destroyed the…
Japan destroys new launch vehicle after misfire
H3 rocket The Tokyo government launched a new medium-range missile on Tuesday for the first time in three decades. (Photo: via REUTERS) Tokyo According to official information, Japan destroyed the…
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…
Starlink becomes an instrument for killing – can Elon Musk prevent that?
Dusseldorf The Internet service Starlink is considered an important technology for Ukraine to withstand the Russian war of aggression. But now a message from the operator SpaceX is causing a…
Starlink becomes an instrument for killing – can Elon Musk prevent that?
Dusseldorf The Internet service Starlink is considered an important technology for Ukraine to withstand the Russian war of aggression. But now a message from the operator SpaceX is causing a…
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…
The year 2022 in 13 satellite images
Dusseldorf Every day we get new news from Ukraine. Shots of devastated inner cities, people searching for firewood in fields of rubble, columns of smoke after bombing raids. Despite this…
War, climate change, Qatar – The year in 13 satellite images
Dusseldorf Every day we get new news from Ukraine. Shots of devastated inner cities, people searching for firewood in fields of rubble, columns of smoke after bombing raids. Despite this…