Tag: Space travel
Ottobrunn – Promotional award goes to Isar Aerospace – District of Munich
The rocket manufacturer Isar Aerospace from Ottobrunn won the EIC Horizon prize for cost-effective space transport in an EU competition. EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said on Tuesday that…
Part of a Falcon 9 rocket is likely to hit the moon in March
The second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is expected to hit the moon. According to experts, in March, after an odyssey of seven years around the earth and…
Space – EU Commission supports space founders – Economy
The start-up Isar Aerospace has come ten million euros closer to its goal of launching its first small rocket into space. The founders around Daniel Metzler won corresponding prize money…
Space travel: people from Munich launch fire alarms into space – economy
For a good three years now, the founders of the start-up Orbital Oracle Technologies (Ororatech) have been working on a satellite system with which they can discover forest fires and…
Anna Christmann – that’s the green coordinator for aerospace politics
There were times when someone like Anna Christmann would have been banned by the Greens, at least. The 38-year-old member of the Bundestag from Stuttgart is now the federal government’s…
Space: Germany needs a space strategy – economy
France has already submitted: at the end of November, President Emmanuel Macron and Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi laid the foundations for closer cooperation between the two countries, including in…
Taufkirchen: rocket tanks made of carbon – district of Munich
In an old aircraft hangar on the Ludwig-Bölkow-Campus in Taufkirchen, next to flight simulators, engines and computers, there is also a basketball hoop. If nothing goes on, a few tosses…
Taufkirchen – rocket tanks made of carbon – district of Munich
In an old aircraft hangar on the Ludwig-Bölkow-Campus in Taufkirchen, next to flight simulators, engines and computers, there is also a basketball hoop. If nothing goes on, a few tosses…
Space travel: Founders on the way to the moon – economy
Many start-ups want to go into orbit with their rockets and satellites, but this one wants to go further: The Bremen-based company Levity wants to build a uniform satellite platform…
Old, porous and dark – the asteroid Ryugu is different from many known celestial bodies
He is an extremely interesting celestial body: (162173) Ryugu. The asteroid with the Japanese name (in German “Drachenpalast”) was discovered in 1999 and flies in a low-earth orbit around the…