Tag: Space travel
Miriam Meckel: The tyranny of distance
In these days you can already turn your eyes to heaven. Not to expect divine salvation “from above” for a world that is in the process of dismantling itself again.…
Carbon Rocket Tanks: Blackwave Closes Funding Round
Munich When Bastian Behrens and Raphael Setz founded the carbon high-performance component manufacturer Blackwave in 2016, they both had one goal. “We wanted to be able to send a part…
Become Snoop Dogg’s neighbor
The author Tillmann Prüfer is a member of the editor-in-chief of “Zeit-Magazin”. In the early 2000s, a man named Dennis Hope made a name for himself when he seriously claimed…
New Space companies criticize EU push for satellite internet
Dusseldorf, Paris “Europe must take its destiny into its own hands and conquer new frontiers,” said Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday at the meeting of EU ministers responsible for space policy…
Virgin Galactic announces space ticket presale
Virgin Galactic’s space plane Pictured July 11, 2021, Virgin founder Richard Branson is onboard for landing after his space flight. (Photo: AP) Dusseldorf Wealthy tourists can buy their ticket to…
The EU wants to challenge Elon Musk in space
Brussels, Paris He boosted vaccine manufacturing in Europe and devised a plan to boost chip production. EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton wants to make Europe more independent in all…
The EU wants to challenge Elon Musk in space
Brussels, Paris He boosted vaccine manufacturing in Europe and devised a plan to boost chip production. EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton wants to make Europe more independent in all…
Russia wants to go back to the moon
Luna-25 The Russian probe is not yet on the moon, but it should be on its way there in 2022 (Photo: NPO Lavochkin (www.laspace.ru)) Berlin China’s rover Yutu-2 circles alone…
Setback for Elon Musk: Solar storm destroys 40 satellites
SpaceX rocket The privately developed rocket takes loads like people into space. (Photo: dpa) new York A solar storm has crashed dozens of new satellites from space company SpaceX. Up…
Part of SpaceX rocket could crash into the moon in March
Falcon 9 The rocket from Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX was launched in 2015. (Photo: AP) Washington According to calculations by scientists at the US space agency Nasa, part of…
Insight Innovation: Laboratories in space: weightlessness is revolutionizing research
(Photo: Klawe Rzeczy, Getty, Imago [M]) Dusseldorf Growing organs from stem cells in space sounds like a weird vision of the future. But numerous scientists are working very intensively and…
The deputy editor-in-chief’s weekly review
Good morning dear readers,the world is facing a tech revolution. We will see more technological advances in the next few years than in the past hundred. This already rapid development…
Huge mirror extended by space telescope
A computer animation shows the unfolding of the space telescope Scientists hope that the recordings will provide information about the time after the Big Bang, among other things. (Photo: AP)…
The deputy editor-in-chief’s weekly review
Good morning dear readers,the world is facing a tech revolution. We will see more technological advances in the next few years than in the past hundred. This already rapid development…
Debris threaten the dawn of the new space era
Brussels, Berlin, Paris Infinite expanses? Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that. Space fills with junk, at least where people spread their equipment and shops: in…
How healthy are trips into space?
TV presenter Michael Strahan before an excursion into space In mid-December, six people went on a short trip into space. This was made possible by Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin.…
China is raising allegations against SpaceX
The Chinese astronaut Liu Boming from the Tiangong space station The space station had to change course in July and October because a Starlink satellite from SpaceX was on a…
China is raising allegations against SpaceX
The Chinese astronaut Liu Boming from the Tiangong space station The space station had to change course in July and October because a Starlink satellite from SpaceX was on a…
Russia is massively arming itself – a weapon of terror for US aircraft carriers
US aircraft carrier Russia apparently wants to create a weapon of terror for the aircraft carriers and other large units of the US Navy. (Photo: dpa) Berlin All eyes are…
Elon Musk’s 2022 investment plans
Elon Musk is not only the head of the electric car manufacturer Tesla, but also CEO of the private space company SpaceX and co-founder of the brain technology start-up Neuralink.…