Unnecessarily dramatizing a situation was never the thing of the American space agency Nasa. Here's how Joel Montalbano, NASA manager for the International Space Station (ISS), the return of three stranded ISS astronauts with a specially launched one Soyuzcapsule almost as routine. "We don't call this a rescueSoyuz" Montalbano said at a news conference. "I call it a spareSoyuz." It's just the next one Soyuzcapsule, which will carry two cosmonauts and a US astronaut in March anyway ISS should have...
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Of Dieter SurigThe new gold rush in space has long since begun: Big names promise fast satellite internet from orbit to the furthest corners of the earth. Space-X already has more than 3600 satellites in space (Starlink), the British-Indian Oneweb 500 and Amazon (Kuiper) want to follow suit. And the EU is - behind it: A satellite broadband network called iris² should next to the Galileonavigation satellites will become the second major EU consumer space programme. EU Internal Market Commissioner...
Of Dieter SurigThe new gold rush in space has long since begun: Big names promise fast satellite internet from orbit to the furthest corners of the earth. Space-X already has more than 3,600 satellites in space (Starlink), the British-Indian Oneweb 500, and Amazon (Kuiper) wants to follow suit. And the EU is - behind it: A satellite broadband network called iris² should next to the Galileonavigation satellites will become the second major EU consumer space programme. EU Internal Market Commissioner...
The European space agency Esa was only able to launch the newly developed rocket in mid-July Vega-C celebrate. The launch vehicle's little sister Ariane successfully placed several research satellites in earth orbit, and ESA director Daniel Neuenschwander wanted to herald a "new era of European launch solutions that Ariane 6 should be added", as he said. Seven at least Vega-Flights were already booked at the time.This project has now been abruptly interrupted. Ironically, on the first commercial mission of the...
Reinhard Hildebrandt thinks back fondly, but also wistfully: when the engineer at the European starting point in Kourou/French Guyana does one more Arianerocket on its journey, then he went to the ramp early on the day of launch. "It was the very last moment to say goodbye to the rocket with a 'handshake'," says the 67-year-old. It was "an unforgettable mood" at dawn, he felt so small as a person next to it.Hildebrandt felt this humility for more than 35...
Reinhard Hildebrandt thinks back fondly, but also wistfully: when the engineer at the European starting point in Kourou/French Guyana does one more Arianerocket on its journey, then he went to the ramp early on the day of launch. "It was the very last moment to say goodbye to the rocket with a 'handshake'," says the 67-year-old. It was "an unforgettable mood" at dawn, he felt so small as a person next to it.Hildebrandt felt this humility for more than 35...
They are already a little theatrical at Esa: "MTG-I1 will never be seen again," reported the European space agency a week ago. The cryptic letters stand for Meteosat Third Generation Imager. Its first model was at the launch site in Kourou/French Guiana just inside the Ariane 5 been stowed - hidden behind the steel casing of the approximately 50 meter high launch vehicle. Twelve years had the development of the first Meteosat-Third generation weather satellites. It is scheduled to start...
In his "Introduction to Extraterrestrial Literature. Reading and Writing in Space", Zurich literary scholar Philipp Theisohn explains that the relationship between space and literature is a special one. The novels above the universe, and even more so out from space expand the limitations of the terrestrial perspective and allow us to understand the human being as a galactic being intertwined with multiple relationships. With her unusual science fiction novel "The Employees", the Danish author Olga Ravn has added an extraordinarily...
