Esa commissions Munich start-up with a cargo spaceship – Economy

The European space agency Esa gives start-ups a serious chance. While the European Commission has so far only designated an industrial consortium as the main contractor for the planned Iris² satellite broadband network, the Munich start-up The Exploration Company (TEC) is now receiving the ESA contract Space station cargo spacecraft to develop. Another contractual partner in the ESA program called Cargo Return Service is the French-Italian group Thales Alenia Space (TAS). The biggest surprise of the award at an ESA summit in Brussels is that Airbus and Ariane Group have not yet had a chance. You have received information from industry circles common concept submitted.

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