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...
As with so many astronauts, who are ultimately chosen based on social compatibility, the first impression of the British man John McFall is: What a nice guy. You would immediately want to drink a soda with him from the space-compatible sip bag if you floated past him on board a space station. But will 41-year-old McFall be levitating, bag drinking, and all the other nice (spectacular views) and not-so-nice (months without a shower, bed, or privacy) that goes with human...
NASA's new moon rocket has finally started - and there are two dolls on board, because the flight through space carries many risks for people, from clouding of the eye lenses to cancer. Radiation biologist Christine Hellweg says: A safe journey to Mars would still be impossible.Interviewed by Joachim LaukenmannOn Wednesday morning at 7.47 a.m., the new NASA rocket SLS to the moon took off, still without astronauts on board, but with two dolls from the German Aerospace Center (DLR)....
Interviewed by Dieter SurigESA Director General Josef Aschbacher is on a European tour to collect money in the 22 member countries. Next week will be the triennial ESA Council of Ministers Conference advised on a budget of 18.5 billion euros, almost 30 percent more than in 2019. This also includes money for the new rocket Ariane 6. Since their premiere flight is delayed and the Esa the Russian Soyuz can no longer use it because of the sanctions, the space...
A few years ago, the European space agency Esa made the transition to the new launch vehicle Ariane 6 Probably even easier to imagine: The first flight had already been announced for 2020, when Esa decided to place an order for the last ten Ariane 5-Retract missiles. A slack in the satellite market and price pressure from Elon Musk's rocket maker Space-X pointed to falling demand. Manufacturers such as Augsburg-based MT Aerospace, which builds tanks for the rocket, had to...
While the Ukrainian army has been able to recapture Russian-held territory in southern and eastern Ukraine in recent weeks, the soldiers appear to be having serious problems with the broadband satellite network Starlink had. According to the Financial Times The connection to Starlink was lost in some regions when the Ukrainians operated in the frontline and wanted to advance into Russian-controlled territory. Some of the outages resulted in a "catastrophic" loss of communications, the FT quoted a Ukrainian government official...
DThe UN agency for space affairs (UNOOSA) described the "Dart" mission of the US space agency Nasa, during which a probe intentionally crashed into an asteroid for the first time on Tuesday night, as "an important step in protecting the earth and humanity » welcomed. The mission was registered with the United Nations Space Agency in early January, a UN spokesman said on Wednesday. In June, the competent UN committee was then informed again in detail. During the defense test...
In terms of parity, Italy is a developing country. Three summiteers are causing a sensation, but women cannot expect any support from the future government. source site
Many want to go into space, but most stay below. Matthias Maurer did it. His expectations of the astronaut's dream job have been fulfilled, but he didn't expect one thing. Of Dieter SurigThere was actually this moment in space when the German astronaut Matthias Maurer felt like he was in a Hollywood film: "Nasa radioed us at night that we were in danger of colliding with space debris in a few hours," he says . That was three days after...
