January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
... in the development of the ENVISAT optical instruments. In 1994, she continued her professional experience in industry at SODERN (Ariane Group) where she worked as optical engineer, head of optical section and finally as project manager of equipment...
October 2019
Reusability is key to expanding future space launch business
... New Glenn itself is a large vehicle and the first stage alone - at nearly 100 m high - is taller than an Ariane 5. New Glenn’s core stage carries a 7 m diameter fairing, which has twice the volume of the largest fairing...
February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
... 2004, she worked at ESA/ESTEC as Head of the EGAS Audit Section, with the task of auditing the Ariane 5 supply chain. Later, she took over the Quality and Product Assurance Department at DLR headquarters in Cologne...
October 2020
Connecting the global space community
... from India and Russia. The debuts of several new launch vehicles are planned for 2021, including Ariane 6 and the Space Launch System (SLS). And many activities in low Earth orbit will make 2021...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
...Soyuz rocket at the Kourou launch site in French Guiana appear to be numbered, as European customers move to Vega C, Ariane 6 and SpaceX. Similarly, there is project, but not programmatic cooperation, with China: a French experiment on Chang’e 6, for...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... of colonising Mars. Other heavy rocket launches include ULA’s Vulcan, Blue Origin’s New Glenn, as well as Europe’s Ariane 6 and Japan’s H3. Small launch providers Relativity and ABL Space Systems are expected to fly for the...
